"When you make what you think is a "wrong turn", your Inner Guidance System just recalculates your route, so there are no irreparable wrong turns. There are actually no wrong turns at all." Lola Jones
Sponsoring A Event In Your Area
Thanks for your interest in
hosting a Divine Openings Course
in your area!
People often ask Lola to come give seminars, so we prepared these guidelines to save her valuable time and yours. "Live" makes all the difference for some people, so thanks for your inspiration to help! The course will be free to you, or you can make commissions, one or the other. Or you make a unique agreement with us.
Right now, if you are serious, order 30 copies of the book wholesale, and begin selling them yourself and setting things up with bookstores in your area. That's exactly what ALL of the successful sponsors did. The ones who didn't do this did not make and we'd put a lotta time into it on our end, so now we take it seriously only when the books go out. Examples below.
Here are some success guidelines:
- You need big email lists of spiritual/metaphysical people to mail to.
- Get everyone you know to email out for you.
- Line up phone radio interviews (real radio, not internet radio) way in advance, book signings, or even TV if you can.
- Get a metaphysical bookstore sponsor to promote it and send to their list and in their store. This is very effective. If they sell 40 books, you will have a course.
- Press releases to local holistic publications about Divine Openings. Have them interview Lola by phone and publish it months before the event.
- Posters and fliers alone do NOT work. You would want to put some posters up though, in VERY targeted locations. Get the word and posters/fliers out to all types of local bookstores.
- Get a spiritual center to sponsor it and email to their list.
- Your best avenue is people with big lists: stores, centers, clinics, local churches, spiritual leaders, and practitioners. Don't rely on our website. Local is best.
- Get books out there in people's hands now. You get to buy the books wholesale and make profit on the sales.
- Please, only sponsor if you will personally attract and register at least 15 people. Don't rely on our list and website members. Many of those people no longer need anything.
- Reserve a facility and get our approval of it (this is the easiest part). Must have large floor space for movement activities, and a very high quality sound system that Lola can plug her Mac into for music. Music is a big part of it.
- Outdoor spaces and nature are nice.
It works best if you're a natural promoter.
It's rewarding to you in ways you cannot imagine.
We provide you a high quality color flier/poster/press release master.
The distribution cost and effort of putting out posters and fliers is up to you. We'll only reimburse you for them if the course fills to the top. Don't spend much because posters and fliers don't do much without the people knowing who Lola is.
You'll need to begin two or three months in advance,
and at least 15 people 3 weeks must have preregistered in advance of the course (more if overseas or there are big travel expenses).
Get books out to people four months in advance of the course.
We set a date when we see your action happening.
If you don't make the minimum.
The registration is all automated through our website, as is the affiliate tracking, so you handle no money. You don't have to sell it, or explain it .... just get the word out and send them to our website!
We don’t repay you for anything if your seminar does not make, or if the affiliate commission does not happen to cover your work and expense. If the course is cancelled, affiliate commissions are cancelled.
Bookstores should order and sell the books before and after the live event!
Show them the book and tell them you'll be sending people to buy them for a long time.
Find metaphysical and regular bookstores in your area who will actively feature and promote them. Just having a book or two on the shelf won't cut it. Tell the bookstores how to order the books, or sell them some of yours.
Have them put up a poster with the stack of books in a featured spot. We provide them with a master, not the printing or mounting of it. You could provide that to them, ready to display.
They talk about it and promote it actively through emails or mailings.
We recommend a $25-35 1-hour Friday night intro, and a weekend 1-day intensive the next day for $350. Their $35 applies toward the $350 if they decide to do the full day. When they register for the $350 1-day, the Friday night is INCLUDED FREE. Details vary. Discuss with Lola
Most people who attend the intro will register, BUT WE DON'T COUNT ON IT.
15 STILL HAVE TO BE PREREGISTERED FOR THE $350 DAY 3 WEEKS IN ADVANCE.
You are paid affiliate commissions - OR - you get the course free, one or the other, your choice. It's easier to take the free course.
You are not paid on the ones who register from some other source, or happen to see it on our site when you did not send them there through your link.
They MUST COME THROUGH YOUR LINK for you to be paid from the site. We will not track it manually.
To become an affiliate
Our site and the book do the selling.
Just get people to go to the site,
and read the book first.
Then follow up and remind them
about the live course.
Just get people to go to the site,
and read the book first.
Then follow up and remind them
about the live course.
The courses outside Toronto were wildly successful because Jo-Anne, who went through the 5 Day Silent Intensive, first got books to everyone she knew, then filled the courses singlehandedly. She gathered about 30 people to fill a 5 Day Silent Intensive and a 2 day course. It cost her nothing because she knows people and they trust her opinion.
The first thing Joann did was order books wholesale, and sell about 40 books. She got books in people's hands. That's the biggest key, whether you order a batch of books and then sell them, or whether you send people to the site to buy them through your affiliate link. She made a profit on the book sales, although profit wasn't important to her.
Once people read the book, many want a live course. That's all it takes. Because of Jo-Anne, 30 people registered several months in advance, then we did a Friday night intro and more registered there on the spot.
It actually works better to have books and put them in people's hands. Another is having big lists to email to, and having the kind of reputation that people really listen to what you say.
Supporters in Bozeman, Montana also started out by getting 40 or 50 books out to people by putting them in a bookstore. The bookstore owner read the book and started telling people about it. Even in that area where our mailing list is very thin, the course easily filled up by the deadline.
In Vancouver, here's how they did it:
The sponsor ordered 20 books and sold 8 to friends, and 12 to a bookstore owner.
The spiritual bookstore sent out a flier like the one on this page.
People come in and buy the book before I arrive, and/or come to the signing.
The poster for the one day event, also shown here, sits right there by the books in the store for weeks.
Word of mouth is key.
Lola approves the seminar room and cost, from photos and talking with you.
- We need a secluded, resort-like atmosphere with swimming or ocean, hiking, nature, beauty, food facilities, near optional lodging. Not a hotel or very public place. Ever.
- We need chairs and a nice, spacious atmosphere. We want an open area for every one to lie down on the floor. We like nature all around for walks and movement outdoors. We could use a resort for this only if it's affordable, has nature, and is private for US.
- Spacious homes in nature are nice.
We pay any seminar room fees after the course has made. Not before! We don’t pay a room deposit until the course is made, as we have no idea whether you will fill the course. So you want a facility reserved way in advance, and to fill the course way in advance.
Centers often make their profit from people staying in their rooms overnight (if applicable), and will give free meeting space to us. Ask.
If you want to do it, and can do it, then do it!
If not, just recommend the book and online course, earn affiliate commissions, and let it build.
It's all we can do to keep up with the pace it's growing now!
It's amazing how much gets done by so few.
Love
The Divine Openings Team
Some questions people have asked:
Can you drop the price?
No, never. It's worth a hundred times our tuition. Sometimes we give early bird discounts. If you begin in lack consciousness, it won't fly anyway.
It cost $5500 in tuition and $3000 in travel costs for me to go to India for the 21 days of silence. You must be in an abundance consciousness to promote an event for us. We definitely do not drop prices or do anything to encourage lack consciousness. We help people get prosperous. The tuition keeps going up, not down, as word of its value spreads and people understand more of what they’re getting. Or if you want to help disadvantaged people, get a sponsor to pay for Lola's work.
How do I explain it to people?
Share your personal experience, and send them to the website through your affiliate link. The site does an amazing job of explaining the unexplainable. You can also ask them what they want in their life, and tell them Divine Openings will help that. It helps everything.
How do I become an affiliate to earn commissions when I refer people?
Go to www.DivineOpenings.com/affiliate-program and it takes 3 minutes to become an affiliate. It's not for everyone. You must have basic tech skills, and it's do-it-yourself.
Lola Jones is a conduit for Pure Divine Grace/Light/Intelligence. You can learn to do what she does: resolve issues, initiate enlightenment, and transform lives. 