"An ocean can fall on your head, but if your pipes are only as large as a drinking straw, you might get a teacup full. Grace is constantly raining on you, so ask not for more Grace, but for larger pipes. Divine Openings expands your pipes." Lola Jones
Sponsoring A Event In Your Area
Thanks for your interest in hosting a Divine Openings
Event in your area!
"Live" makes all the difference for some people,
so thanks for your inspiration to help that happen in your area!
Service to what brings you spiritual progress
is an old tradition that still works.
People often ask Lola to come give retreats and events, so we prepared these guidelines to save her valuable time and yours. The event will be free to you, or you can earn commissions, one or the other. (Or you make a unique agreement with us.) You do "earn it", but you get so much more. On this page you learn what it involves before you begin talking with us.
Sponsoring is rewarding to you in ways you cannot imagine.
After you read this page, STEP 1 is: Order 30 copies of the book wholesale.
You'll begin selling them yourself, OR promote and sell them to your local spiritual bookstores at wholesale. We want you to know that up front. You make it all back, and get a free event for you (1 person).
That's exactly what ALL the successful sponsors did (examples below).
"Wanna-be sponsors" who didn't do this and didn't promote the event vigorously, did not succeed. We only set a date and begin to do our part once books are ordered by you, and enough bookstore and email-lists are secured.
If you can do it, call us and ask us if we can come to your area.
If you are an experienced promoter, and have other proven ways of producing successful events, contact us - we're open to other ways of doing it, as long as they work!
Here are some proven success guidelines:
- You need big targeted email lists of spiritual/metaphysical people to mail to.
- Get metaphysical bookstores to sponsor. They feature it prominently on a front table, and display a poster by the stack of books. This is very effective. If they sell 40 books, you will have a successful event.
- The bookstore agrees to promote the book and the event to their email list.
- Some stores will take on the whole promotion for you (you still get the event free if you set it up).
- Get a spiritual center to sponsor it (leaving you nothing to do) and email to their list.
- Your best avenue is big lists: metaphysical stores and bookstores, centers, clinics, local churches, spiritual leaders, and practitioners. Don't rely on our website and our email list - many of our readers don't need anything more. They're already liberated!
- Get books out there in people's hands now, personally. You get to buy the books wholesale and make profit on the sales. Or you can pass them off to bookstores at wholesale and let them sell them.
- Posters and fliers alone do NOT work - they must read the book. You would want to put some posters up though, in VERY targeted locations.
- Press releases to local holistic publications about Divine Openings. Have them interview Lola by phone and publish it weeks before the event.
- Get everyone you know to email out for you.
- Line up phone radio interviews (real radio, Lola does not do internet radio unless it's Oprah or very large) way in advance, or even TV if you can.
- Please, only sponsor if you will personally attract and register at least 15 people. That's how the sponsor earns their tuition and serves.
- After all the above is set up and you know you have firm commitments from your backers: Reserve a facility and get our approval of it (this is the easiest part of all).
- Must have large floor space for movement activities.
- Must have a very high quality and loud sound system that Lola can plug her Mac into for music. Music is a big part of it.
- Facilities in nature are preferable. Facility can be a house or seminar room. We don't like hotels.
- We usually provide lunches for a 1 Day event. Sponsor prepares food, or gets takeout food brought in. We reimburse you a pre-approved amount.
- Get prior approval before incurring any expenses. We know which ones are worth it.
* If we do a book signing at their store, we do bring a big stack of books that night. We do not count on the booksigning to register people. That is only for last-minute registrations. The event must make minimum registration 3 weeks in advance of the event, long before Lola arrives in your town.
The website informs people about Divine Openings very well, but you must get the people to go there! It works best if you're a naturally gifted promoter/sharer type person or have a big network. Unless you're a natural leader whom people look to for guidance, you'd have to email to 200 to 2000 people who are seeking spiritually to generate 20 registrations.
We provide you a high quality color flier/poster master.
The distribution cost and effort of putting out color posters and fliers is up to you. Don't spend much more than $50 on fliers, because they don't do much without the people knowing who Lola is.
Put all your efforts on getting books in people's hands.
You'll need to begin two or three months in advance,
and at least 15 people must be preregistered 3 weeks 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 only when we see the books going out.
The registration is all automated through our website, so you handle no money. You don't have to sell it, or explain it .... just get the word out, get the books out, and send them to our website!
We don’t repay you for time or expense if your event does not make.
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 doesn't do much. 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 you with a master. You mount it and take it to them ready to display.
They must talk about it and promote it actively through emails or mailings.
Lola does not do free intros as people receive great value even from an intro. The intro can be at a bookstore, and they can promote it and sell books.
We recommend a $25-35 1-hour Friday night intro, and a weekend 1-day intensive the next day for $375. Their $25 applies toward the $375 if they decide to do the full day. When they register for the 1-day, the Friday night is INCLUDED FREE. Details vary. Discuss with Lola in advance.
Most people who attend the intro will register, but we do not count on that, it's too last-minute. The minimum still has to be met for the big event 3 WEEKS IN ADVANCE.
You get the course free!
Our site and the book do much of the work.
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.
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, from photos and talking with you.
- We need a secluded, resort-like atmosphere with nature, beauty, food facilities, near optional lodging. Not a hotel or very public place.
- We can use a home if the room is large.
- 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.
If it's not in a private home with sponsor providing free space, 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.
As sponsor, plan to arrange for someone to pick Lola up at the airport, and offer her a place to stay.
If you want to do it, and can do it, then do it!
If not, just recommend the book and online course.
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. We might give early bird discounts.
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 DivineOpenings.com. 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.
