Nothing Says Thoughtful Like A Gift From The Same Place One Can Purchase Feminine Hygiene Products

In an effort to help rescue friendships across the country, I am putting forth the Polka Dots Guide to Fabulous Gift Gifting.

You may not recognize yourself as a Lame Gift Giver, so here are a couple of exercises to go through and determine if you have perhaps strayed from your lady-like upbringing and given in to the temptation, convenience or forgetfullness that breeds the condition known as: Lame Gift-Giving Syndrome.

If you bought a gift from a store that had shopping carts, it is probably a Lame Gift.

If you picked up your gift along with any of the following: your prescription/your dry cleaning/a frozen pizza/a package of tube socks/a tank of gas, it is almost definitely a Lame Gift.

If you placed your gift on a rubber conveyor belt prior to paying for it, it is very likely a Lame Gift.

Don't stress. It happens to the best of us. Here's how to avoid letting it happen again.

Shop early - as in one full calendar month early. You know who's birthdays, anniversaries, and weddings are coming up, right? (If not, get an Agenda Book already!) So at the beginning of each new month, see what gifts you need to order for next month and get it done BEFORE this month ends.

Congratulations. Kiss your nightmares of being tagged a Lame Gift-Giver good-bye.

Sadly, this doesn't always mean that you won't be a Lame Gift Receiver.

A Party Girl's work is never done... (sigh).

Cheers,

Heather

Is That A Challenge?

We love a challenge. What other explanation could there be to the insane amount of work we so eagerly heap onto our proverbial plates here at Polka Dots.

Assuming (and in many cases knowing for sure) that our Party Girls are cut from the same cloth, we figured you'd be up for a little healthy competition.

Here's the deal:

Be the FIRST to Register 6 Holiday Headstart Parties

Open Houses & Trunk Shows (no e-parties)

Party date must fall between September 1st and November 14th

and receive $200.00 in Polka Bucks

Oh, and by the way, we're pretty quick on our feet so if your party was registered and "fell through" they won't count toward your total. The prize will be awarded on November 15th

Holiday catalogs will be emailed out to you on September 1st so you will have everything you need to host a Holiday Headstart party for your neighbors, PTO, co-workers, girlfriends, family, etc.

Start thinking and make a list. Who loves you? Who owes you? Who knows a lot of people and loves to shop? Get yourself motivated and give them a call!

I'll be counting...

;) Cheers!

Heather

It's Pay Day!

Hey Party Girls!

Time to take those manolos off lay-away 'cuz it's PAY DAY! Be sure to check your @polkadotsparties email for your July comm reports.

Polka Bucks were also rewarded if you surpassed an imcrement of $500 in cumulative sales and/or hosted your 6th party! Cheers to all of you!

If you didn't receive a report for July, just remember... it takes a while to get yourself going. Don't get disgruntled! The holidays are right around the corner and everyone is going to be grateful to you for reminding them to get a jump start on their shopping. And by ordering their gifts now, they have plenty of time for personalization.

Keep up the great work and stay tuned for new items!

Cheers!

Heather

Excuses, Excuses

Well I'm back. It's been almost 2 months since my last post and I was trying to come up with a compelling yet plausible excuse and after much thought, here it is: I've been busy.

So it's not as colorful as my original thoughts (gummy lifesavers induced sugar coma... bad manicure that caused me to temporarily lose the use of my fingers, kidnapped by angry toddlers... tied to a plastic chair with bubble tape and forced to watch Yo Gabba Gabba for 36 days straight...).

Turns out, the truth seemed like the best excuse of all. In the past few weeks I've negotiated the addition of several new product lines including Personalized Tees, a funky back to school assortment of products which includes Retro Lunchboxes, Water Bottles, Mousepads (all personalized, of course) and (drumroll please...) the Boatman Geller line (coming very soon). In addition, I took a vacation, hosted and attended several fabulous parties, and oh yes... re-designed the website.

Check out the new site. We're still working out some kinks and populating some new categories and as always, please report any hiccups via email.

Still to come: Jingle Dots - yes I know... it's overdue but I'm STILL in negotiations with our choice vendor. Just need to make sure they can handle our sales volume... if so, stay tuned for some charming holiday aprons, monogrammed stockings, initial wine bags, personalized ornaments and much more! We may not be able to distribute the samples in time for your fall parties, but we can send you a printable mini-catalog!

REMINDER! If you have been waiting for the summer vacation season to come to an end before hosting your first party, wait no more! Get on it, girl! Now is the time to book your fall open-house! Host it in your home ASAP. Your Open House parties will help you line up more party hostesses. After they've seen what you have to offer, they'll be thinking of their own holiday shopping list and will easily see the advantages of hosting a Polka Dots Party for their friends this holiday season. Even if you've already hosted an Open House this year, host another one to take advantage of holiday shopping.

HOLIDAY PARTY CUT-OFF: Parties hosted AFTER November 20th will NOT be guaranteed to receive their items before the Christmas! Use this as a selling point to go back to your interested hostesses and get them signed up!

Time to get back to work... Thanks again Party Girls for being a constant source of inspiration and motivation for us here at Polka Dots, Inc. As always, please let us know how we can help!

All my best!

Heather