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Lyn’s Book Biz

lyn.blackledge — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:08:04 +0000

Lyn’s Book Biz

For seven years, I have been an organiser with Usborne books. I have throughly loved my Usborne career as I travelled the length and the breadth of the country from the Isle of Wight to Aberdeen. I finally decided to move on to pastures new and so have resigned my position with Usborne.

There are several new challenges and I am looking forward to them all. I have become an independent distributor for a company that helps others save on their essential bills. For this I will be trading as Lyn’s Utility Biz I am looking forward to helping people save money and also recruiting other distributors who want to earn an income by helping others.

I have also become the advertsing consultant for The Rainbow Directory . This is a family directory with a distribution of 20,000 copies across the Isle of Wight 3 times a year. 17,000 copies are distributed via the school book bags.

I have also just become the feature writer for Wightblog which covers news and events for the Isle of Wight.

My brother has also asked me to be his marketing manager for his photographic business and I am just awaiting his new website.

I also have one or two other things up my sleeve – to be revealed soon. That should keep me out of mischief for a little while. In between times , I am granny to two gorgeous little girls, Nicola and Charlotte who are 2 and have just started preschool. They now chat regulalry to me on the phone telling me what they have been up to.

I am having a great time and really looking forward to the next few months with all the changes.

There will be changes to this site so please WATCH THIS SPACE!!

Usborne Books at Ladies Day – Cowes Yacht Haven

lyn.blackledge — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:39:48 +0000

Usborne will be at Ladies Day

Come and visit Nikki and Ang on the Usborne book stand at Ladies Day . They will have a beautiful display of Usborne books. At 1 pm I will be invited onto stage to tell you about the Magic of Usborne and how it can help mums,dads, children , schools, organistations and charities. Hear how you can join our fun-loving Usborne team and earn extra money. Local businesses can donate books to local schools under our community book pledge. Enter our free prize draw.

There is a goodie bag for the first 50 ladies through the door. Gents can come too. See you there – come and support as all proceeds are going to Clic Sargant children’s cancer charity.

Podcast 14

gcman105 — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:45:12 +0000

Bailey Finch Associates, Cowes Chiropractic Clinic and Lyns Book Biz.

Show Notes

Tina Jennings of Bailey Finch Associates – recruitment specialists www.baileyfinch.co.uk 01983 402895

Esme Connelly – Cowes Chiropractic Clinic www.coweschiropraticclinic.co.uk 01983 282810

Lyns Book Biz – Usborne independent representative. www.lynsbookbiz.co.uk 07779 239122

Usborne school book fair

lyn.blackledge — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:39:30 +0000

Usborne Book fair at Oakfields school

Nikki, Angela and I attended Oakfield school this week and set up an Usborne Book fair which the parents and children attended after Mrs Fairhurst, the head teacher gave a very informative talk about how the parents could help their children with reading. We sold quite a lot of books and are returning later in the month when they are celebrating National Story Telling month by holiding an Alice in Wonderland day. Following that, we will be giving FREE books to the school (of their choice) as their commission. We love giving away FREE books and Usborne have a brilliant commission structure whereby we can give up to 60% in FREE books or 40% in cash discount to schools and other organisations. See Lyns Book Biz for details. Not only do we have school book fairs but also sponsored reads and sponsored listens (Ready Steady Read/Listen) and we also have a community book pledge where local businesses big or small, can donate a book(s) to local school. This can be organised for any school. Brading school recently held a sponsored read and will soon be choosing their FREE books. Many local businesses have been donating books to local schools too. We are looking forward to giving away more FREE books soon.

Here I am with Gary, one of my newest Usborne recruits

lyn.blackledge — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:31:24 +0000

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One of my latest Usborne Book recruits.

Gary, one of my newest Usborne team members decided to join us for the Usborne Gala and conference and he had a great time! Which man wouldn’t, surrounded by over 200 women. He just felt the 7 men in attendance was 6 too many!!!!

Thanks again Bob the Shed

lyn.blackledge — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:22:04 +0000

Bob, thanks again for another pledge from you for books, this time for Kitbridge school. The librarian was delighted when I rang and told her she had to choose some books. Lots of local business people have now pledged books for Island schools under the Usborne Community book pledge scheme running in conjunction with the National Year of reading.

Another networking evening

lyn.blackledge — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:37:25 +0000

Angela and I attended the business link meeting tonight at Northwood house. Although we had problems getting there due to one of those very annoying sets of traffic lights that spring up and grind the traffic to a halt, when we did, we were treated to an excellent seminar presented by Peter Czapp of The Wow Company The seminar was entitled “How to grow your business whatever the market conditions” and it certainly gave us plenty of food for thought. I am certainly wanting to grow my Usborne book business. In September, Usborne books at home grew 42% on last September and we are of course extremely pleased with that. Tonight, I received a flyer announcing some special offers that will begin at 9.30 tomorrow. They are terrific offers and if you would like information on cookbooks, wildlife books, how to knit book or the big book of things to make and do then please email me fore information. You can add your name to my special offer list and be first to hear about the latest Usborne bargains. I really value my customers.

My goodness!

lyn.blackledge — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:38:18 +0000

Oh dear, I haven’t blogged since 22nd September that’s nearly 2 weeks. A lot has happened and I have been very, very busy!
I have been to Basingstoke for one of Val’s brilliant Usborne training days. I went with Angela and Claire. Then I went to a networking evening at the Lakeside restautant which has recently opened for business. I would like to say a big thank you to the owners as they have also made a generous donation of Usborne books to Oakfield school as have David Acheson of Locallife, Peter Tomlinson and Jon Carter of Beta Pak, Joanna of Fusion Arts and Tina and Di
Angela and I will be running a book fair at Oakfield school on Monday and it will have a fairytale theme. We will have lots of Usborne books on display and we will have plenty of bargains to tempt the parents.
I also fitted in a two day trip to do granny duty and had a lovely time with the girls. We walked in the park and collected conkers and watched squirrels! It was super.
I set up another book sale at the Badgers (junior part of St Johns ambulance) fun day at Binstead and sold more books there.
The last day of the month was quite an interesting day. It was the last day of an Usborne travel incentive – a trip to Mexico and Miami and I was still quite a long way off but thanks to a lot of my new Usborne organisers who put on orders, the points came in and I achieved the points (about 12 points over) and 25 minutes to spare – the cut off was midnight. I thought I was a last minute lil but 3 girls came in after midnight – the last one at 11.55 pm!!!!! On Wednesday next, on or executive club day out, the company will confirm the winners!

Angela is a superstar – she helped me sort out the books in the stock room!! I am exhibiting at Olympia next week at the Early Years Teaching exhibition . It was a big task and she left my house at silly o’clock but good job well done.

I set up another display for the parents at Shalfleet school and more lovely books were sold in this, the National Year of Reading.

It has been a very busy time and we are now approaching Book week which again will be busy with book fairs etc.
I am just now preparing to go and promote everything “Usborne” at the Big day out in Freshwater tomorrow.
I don’t think I ought to leave such a big gap betweens blogs next time!!

What a busy Usborne day!!

lyn.blackledge — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:20:57 +0000

Well, Thursday and the day started early as it usually does on Thursdays. It was visitors day at the Island business network group. There I met up with not only my IBN friends but also some guests. I have long been telling my team that we need to take our Usborne “shops” into the care homes for those not fortunate enough to be able to get to the shops. Not only our shops but our level of service where we can help and advise our customers on product choices for their family members – grandchildren, nieces, nephews etc. This morning one of the guests asked me if we were in the care homes yet!! I’ll let you know how that develops as she was well connected!
I delivered a rack full of bargains to the Playstation nursery, which was well received by Carrie, the manager. I then had to pop home to list another rack of bargains for a school staffroom but before I got a chance to deliver it, I had a phone call from Sharon Chick of Business Support services, a fellow member of the IBN. She was out and about and was having a conversation with someone who was looking for a way of earning extra so she gave me a call and this afternoon I was happy to welcome Maria, my new team member!Its a brilliant time to join as we have a FREE starter kit for September.
Word of mouth is such a powerful form of advertising. Sharon herself, is fast becoming a very good customer of mine as she has a grandchild a day older than my twin grandchildren and of course when I expose her to my Usborne books she just can’t resist!! She is also helping me to get on top of my paperwork and an excellent job she is making of that.
Between Sharon phoning and my visiting to Maria and deliver to the school, I popped into Pascalls in Ryde where Claire, a newbie in the team had organised a lunch time book display for the staff. We are pleased Pascalls allowed her to take in her books and she will be making a donation to their chosen charity.
On the way back from the school delivery, I popped into Tesco. Before I actually got into the store, I actually caught up with team members Nikki and Angela on the phone. They had also both had busy Usborne days and we were just sharing news and success stories. Having sat chatting on the phone in the car park, thought I had beeter pop in the store and do my shopping. I was served at the cash desk by THOMAS – It is so lovely to have someone with a sense of humour to serve you in these times of doom and gloom. Well there was no doom and gloom at that checkout and so I told Thomas I would blog about him!! He made very sure I knew who he was – he waved his name badge at me much to the amusement of the customers behind me who also seemed to enjoy the joviality going on. I gave Thomas and the couple behind me my business card and went on my merry way. I am now home and about to have my tea and then I will zoom off to exchange books with another team member as I need more preschool books for tomorrow and Helen has lots!! Between the team here on the Isle of Wight we can cater for most “Usborne” requests immediately as we have a lot of stock. If not then it doesn’t take long for orders to arrive.
During the afternoon, Reg Foster of Equity Insurance, rang to update me on the best insurance for my business and has manged to reduce my bill considerably. Well done Reg, who is also a member of the IBN.
Well, the day has been quite exciting so far with new aquaintances and new recruits. Two new recruits today. Apart from Maria on the Island, Denise has signed up in Spain. She was another referral from the IBN group – recommended by Graeme Jeremy who provides an excellent man (men ) and van service 5 star transport.
some merriment in Tesco and lots of chatting on the phone.

Tonight, I will probably catch up with team members who have news to share.
In between, I am keeping an eye on my Usborne points to see if I am a little nearer winning my Usborne freebie trip to Mexico and Miami – and they call this work!!!!!!!! Anyone over 18 can join so get in touch if you want to be your own boss and control your own hours.

I have also caught up with two of my three children and managed to fit in a call to my lovely parents!

More bookings!

lyn.blackledge — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:05:22 +0000

It was an exciting and busy day yesterday. I was chatting to my first recruit from Spain who is just about to sign up. I have recruits in France already but am about to branch out further round Europe. I also have someone interested in Italy. With a free starter kit this month its a great time for anyone to join
One of the local schools is having a pirate day and has asked me to set up a book fair to link in and as we have lots of pirate titles this will work nicely – although I will of course offer many more titles from our range of 1500+
Another school has asked me to set up a book fair and they are having a fairytale theme so again I can set my display accordingly. I will also be looking for a local business who would like to pledge some books. The school would like to make gingerbread men etc linking in with the theme and a book pledged by a local business would be a nice guesture in this the National Year of Reading (Usborne are running a community book pledge) other businesses also might like to pledge books for prizes to be won on the day.
I am off to the college today where I will set up at the Freshers fair and will also be displaying the recruiting information for anyone who wants to earn extra before Christmas.