Reduce, reuse, recycle

Last night I travelled to Scottsburg for the jewelry lady training classes we have each month. It is always nice to get with my upline & my sister jewelers to kind of 're-group' & remember why I do this sometimes. Because it's easy for me to lose focus...

Normally my Premier Grandma, Gerilee, does the trainings. But she had just gotten back from a 7 day cruise to the Caribbean she WON through Premier. More on that later... When we walked in, the ladies that got the training together had put up 'curtains' so we couldn't see what was going to happen. They always do recognition first. They give certificates to the top 3 retailers for the last month & the top sponsor(s). Well, ya'll know I hate to brag, but I was the top retailer for the month of February... Of course, I was upfront getting my certificate so I couldn't take a pic of myself...

Last nights theme was 'going green'. Opal Winfrey-Jewelry was in the audience & she had 2 jewelry ladies on the show via 'skype'. The first one was my Premier mom, Brenda. She played the jewelry lady who had her business together. And she talked about how she reuses, recycles & reduces with Premier. I can't remember all the examples, but she talked about reducing financial stress with Premier, reusing folder & catalogs, etc. You get the drift....

They really went all out with it. It looked really good. Linda was in the office setting on the left & Donna Dontawanna was in a living room setting on the right. Complete with "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" playing on the tv. Be still my heart!
Donna Dontawanna was played by one of my sister jewelers, Debbie. And she.was.hilarious! It will be hard to 'get it' through the written word, but the way SHE recycles with her Premier business?! She used her jewelry lamp as a light in her living room & her cart for supplies to put her feet up on when she was watching tv.

She checked her mail & had lots of past due bills. So she shredded them. Then she had some green 'money' laying around that we use at shows, so she shredded that too. Then she thought it'd be a great idea to use that for grass in her kids' Easter baskets. She also used her 'necklace' stands to hold artwork her kids drew on top of the tv. Perhaps the funniest thing was with a binder. When you start with Premier, you get a "Jeweler Handbook" with lots of information about the business. She decided to re-use that binder. She yelled, "Kids... hey kids... I know you were wantin' another binder! I've got one here for ya!"

Gerilee got to go on a 'Designer Cruise' through Premier. They're always offering us incentives & contests. I don't know all the details, but I'm sure she had to sell a certain dollar amount of jewelry in a specific amount of time & sponsor people too. This is just one thing they got while on board -a beach towel with the name of the cruise & dates on it. And what I found interesting? The towels were shipped to the dock in Miami, but the boat took off without them. So ya know what Premier did? Instead of making everyone wait until they got back to Miami to get their towel, they had them shipped to St. Thomas for them.

Gerilee shared pics & video she took with us. I'm tellin' ya, the more I see of Premier, the more I realize they do stuff first class all.the.way. She said when they got to their room, there was non-alcoholic champagne. Every night they had some sort of 'treat' from Premier in their room (one night it was chocolate covered strawberries...). And when they got on the boat, they found out that the top 10 or so retailers for the cruise got upgraded to those fancy schmancy rooms that are as big as houses! How cool is that?!

So anyway, the moral of the story is, I like training. It gives me ideas to steal/use at my own shows. Plus, it's neat to hear stories of all the things Premier does for their jewelers. They really do care about us & our success with their company & I just think that's awesome!