How to Choose the Right Adult Toy Party Company to Represent

It can be difficult to start a new business. Decisions decisions. One of those decisions is, do you structure your new business on your own, or find and research companies that supply you with all your marketing materials and products? In the Adult Toy Party (home party category) business, there are about a dozen companies you can choose from to be your base of operations. After 4 months of exhaustive research, about half a dozen appear worthy of consideration list. Only 1 of those companies comes out on top.

This article will not extend to naming names. Their purpose is not to be malicious or badmouth other companies, that’s just bad business in and of itself. If you work at a company that practices what I call “Running From It” tactics, you know this. If you are looking for an adult toy party business company to join, this article should give you some questions to ask. Their answers will let you know that they were in the running.

One of the first things you can do before you even make the call is go to Google and type [Company Name] Complaints. One of the adult toy party companies that appears on virtually every “Adult Toy Party” search page (because they’ve been in business a long time and spend a lot of money on marketing), got 205,000 results from this search for complaints With that, I really don’t have to go any further in my investigation. No way!

Even with extensive research, you may end up choosing the wrong company for you. We did, but realized the mistake quickly (within a month), got out, and started over. The GOOD thing that came from our wrong choice was more questions to determine the correct choice.

You know it’s a bad choice when (“Run from her!”)…

monthly sales quotas

This is one of a series of requirements that let me know that the company is selfish. They’re in it to make money for themselves and couldn’t give a damn if you’re successful or not. How many of us are in it to become full time? Sure, it’s always a dream, but in reality we’re all trying to supplement our income or our spouse’s income. This month the kids can have soccer tournaments every weekend, next month we can have the freedom to have parties all month long; That’s what a home business is supposed to give you: flexibility to earn how much or how little is within your schedule and desire. Keep me out of what YOU think I should be doing.

No, you can NOT build your own website.

Self-Service Most representative websites (the website you market to your business) have corporate information all over the place, giving your potential customers multiple avenues to communicate directly with the company. And as a multi-award winning professional web designer I think I have the authority to comment, most representative websites are just plain bad, flashy, glistening with bugs and not optimized. Now most people looking into the adult toy party business are NOT web designers of course, but give them the choice. Even a basic hosted Word Press template can be MUCH more optimized than representative sites.

Your company website and marketing materials are peppered with corporate information.

Selfish, selfish, selfish. Seriously, why would I want to hand out a bunch of catalogs I paid for that have, on every page, the corporate toll free number and corporate website address? Why do I want to direct people to my website if the contact form goes to some corporate department where I then have to wait for them to peruse it and get to it and forward it to me I hope? I have heard the explanation that they are protecting themselves. They are making sure that if you decide to go out of business, the material you post still has a contact tool up and running. I say bull. My clients aren’t stupid and if they want to contact the company they can certainly figure out how to do it without getting splashed all over the MY BUSINESS marketing material.

Oh no, THAT product is only 30% profit

This was one of the straws that broke the camel’s back with the first company we thought of. We bought during a special offer that gave us a 60% profit for 90 days. I guess we should have known 60% was too good to be true (40% is the industry standard), but it was special and only for 90 days, so we thought: nice little promotion. And from the outside, everything else looked good. Well, once we went in and placed the orders, we got the story that (about 70% of what we needed to order) some of the products only made a 30% profit. That’s just deceptive, and with such blatant deception, we weren’t going to risk giving them any more of our efforts.

You can only market our parties to ladies.

Why do so many of these companies feel it’s wrong (or even against the law) to promote romance between couples? (I checked. It’s not illegal.) In Why Americans Divorce, I read that “22 percent of men cited sex as the reason for divorce.” In Sex Is Biggest Cause of Divorce, I learned that a UK law firm reports that “sex was a factor in 43 percent of divorce cases.” Think about it. Wouldn’t it be great if we as romance consultants could be a savior on just 0.01% of that? If you saved ONE marriage, wouldn’t that be great? And what about us as consultants? Don’t you think it could bring a couple or two together to run a romantic business together?

You only commission 1 (or 2) levels of your team, and only if YOU maintain a certain monthly income.

Okay, I understand the rule of thumb of having to maintain a certain monthly income to reap the benefits of your team, although it would be nice (and potentially lucrative for the parent company) to have a business or 10 that simply excels at helping your team succeed. Business coaching is a pretty broad field, you know? But regardless, I understand that part, but why should I be limited to only 1-2 levels of my team? I want to hear at least 4 or 5, and the company we set up with does Unlimited. Now THAT is what I am talking about!

Their hostess rewards program comes out of YOUR pocket, and even worse, the company’s marketing materials state what the hostess rewards program is.

So you (the parent company) are going to tell me what I have to give a hostess to throw me a party, but do I have to pay for it? Not great. If I have to pay for it, then I should be able to decide what those incentives are. And in a perfect world, YOU (the parent company) would have to pay for it. After all, you are reaping most of the rewards.

You can only sell our products. No one else’s. Even if you are not in direct competition.

It’s just not great. Why shouldn’t I be able to complement my business by offering a line of jewelry, kitchenware or plastics? Why not? And really, if you don’t sell the Liberator wedge, and I can get it wholesale, and it’s a seller, why should I NOT be allowed to sell it? If you don’t want us to sell what someone else is selling, then offer it yourself; otherwise, let us stock our business!

Those are some of the things to keep in mind that should keep you looking, should the company you’re looking for practice these tactics.

Some items you want your business to offer are:

• Countless ways to win. Look for at least 40% overall in the main product line
• dirty internet. Take a close look at the representative site on offer. Check it out in ALL browsers. Make a full purchase (up to the point where you click accept to purchase, stop there if you don’t want the item). Remember, appearance, mistakes, problems – all this will reflect on YOUR business.
• Promotions for clients. There should be some incentives (that are NOT out of pocket) to help your customers want to buy.
• Team building committee. You should be incentivized and compensated for building and training your team.
• residual income. How is the company going to help maintain revenue?
• Bonuses. Look for car bonuses, house bonuses, travel bonuses, etc.
• Hostess Rewards Program PAID BY THE COMPANY. You shouldn’t spend money rewarding your hostess for throwing you a party.

It’s hard enough to run your own business without being subjected to restrictions, bad press, and lack of cooperation or support. Double check your potential parent company and remember: if it isn’t up to your standards or producing what you think you deserve, jump ship – there are other companies that will.