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June 29, 2001
Raffle donation update!
Total BoB ACS donations as of today are $925.00!
17 more days to enter by mail or PayPal.  Go here for all the information.

June 28, 2001
The whole starter kit inside the Barrington Box??? Howdjadothat? 
(from the message board)
FYI - the consultant who shared this method on the message board has been packing in this manner for over a year, and sponsored 5 this month! Awesome job Sky! Anybody able to get a picture of this - email it to me so we can have a visual to go with the description!

How to get the kit in the barrington box:

Underneath Barrington:
QCP, Snuffer, the Falmouth Unscrewed. Put in the barrington and place them
underneath it.

ON TOP of the Barrington:
I use a candle ring instead of the swag, so I put the flower ring on top with the
Mosaic Tealight holder in the middle of it to cushion it. Inside the Mosaic goes
the unscrewed pieces (small pieces) to the quartet. On top of the bowl I have
the ICT, inside socks to cushion them, and then I put the remaining piece of
the quartet upside down on that.

In addition to the kit, the quad prism (votive holder) will fit underneath the
barrington, and my 2 3-wick "pancakes" and my pillar "pancake", and even a
ball candle or two...

This is how I have done this for over a year, without anything breaking. It takes
no time at all to put things out and put them together, and you get in in one
trip. I put the barrington box in my suitcase, and then fit the hostess specials
around it, with 3 or 4 extras.

Sky (Marquise Region)

Directly From The Heart ACS Raffle Grand Prize
The grand prize for the BoB ACS Raffle is valued at over $400 and is contributed by Directly From the Heart.

The winner will receive THREE (3) of the new binders filled with EVERY business building & motivational sticker they make, including new styles that are not yet listed in their catalog PLUS an assortment of specialized post-its & notpads/cards PLUS custom printed name labels!! Here are some preview images to whet your appetite - get those ACS $5.00 raffle entries in to Jackie ASAP!! Remember - every raffle entry that arrives in Jackie's hands before the July 16 deadline gets an ADDITIONAL entry into the BoB Bonanza Box drawing - which will have at least as high a retail value as the grand prize and will contain an assortment of products from each of the participating BoB vendors. 

postitsGRAND PRIZE VALUED AT:
The exact value on 3 binders and labels is $288.20
The value on the customized labels $120.00
The value on the post-it note and postcard assortment $37.10

The Whole Enchilada totals out at $445.30!!

heart binder
The Candle Labels are:

Ask me about a career no one can hold a candle to! (100 labels)
You have the power to light your dream (200 labels)
A Heaven-Scent Opportunity (102 labels)
Bring a friend and receive a free tealight (100 labels)
Bring a friend and receive a free votive! (100 labels)
Thank you from the Candle Lady (100 labels)
I love candles (200 labels)
I love candles & teal hearts (20 sheets - 340 labels)
From Your Candle Lady (105 labels) or From your Candle Guy (if a guy wins)
A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle (100 labels)
Need More Income? (102 hologram labels with hologram design)
Magnifi-Scent Opportunity (100 labels)
Relax With Wax (104 labels)
Let Your Holidays Burn Bright with Candlelight (100 foil labels)
3-Wick Thank You Candle (with holly) (96 labels)
3-Wick Thank You Candle (teal) (96 labels)
Never Enough Candles (104 labels)
Candles Warm Your Heart and Home (100 labels)

thousands of stickers!

Valerie's Trademark tea-light circle labels where you fill in your name and phone:

Name/Phone "A lamp lights a room, a candle lights a heart" (200 labels)
Name/Phone "You have the power to light your dream!" (200 labels)
Name/Phone "Don't be caught in the dark! Order today (100 labels) NEW DESIGN

Other New Candle Designs - not be be released until July 15, 2001:

Way to Glow (105 labels)
Don't be caught in the dark! Order today! (100 labels - large size)
You're not just buying a CANDLE, you're buying THE BEST! (100 gold foil labels)

new personalized label

and finally, Valerie's trademark triangle labels, with a new design specifically for PL.

TRIANGLE - Do You Love Candles? Earn Some Free....Ask me! (102 silver triangles printed with teal ink)

Our best selling Phone labels:

If you phone them, they will come (105 labels)
Phone Orders Welcome (100 labels)
Phone Orders and Book Shows Always Welcome (100 labels)

heart & star binders

The Business Builder Binder contains:

Star Hostess (100 teal labels)
Thank You (100 teal labels)
Heart Shaped "Thank You" (100 teal labels)
Girls Night Out (100 labels)

Valerie's Trademark

"Like a little, place an order, like a lot, book a show, like it all, become
a consultant (a total of 300 labels - 100 of each color)

You've reached the Stars - How's the View?
Be the Star that You Are!

More Trademark Triangles:

TRIANGLE - Can't Book a Show - Show a book and earn free products! (102 labels)
TRIANGLE - Ask Me About Bridal and Gift Registry (102 labels)
TRIANGLE - Like a little, place an order.... (102 labels)
TRIANGLE - Please Recycle - Pass Me On To A Friend! (102 labels)

Bring a Friend and Receive a Free Gift (100 labels)
Checkbook Low - Book a Show (102 labels)
You're a Star Hostess (100 labels)
15 to 20 Guests Insures Your Show's Success! (100 labels)
I Love what I do, you can too! red/blue (100 labels)
Heart Shaped "I Love What I Do - You Can Too"
No Order is too Big, No Order is Too Small, By phone or e-mail, I take them
all! (100 labels)
20 Guests - SUCCESS!! (105 labels)

new personalized address labels

June 24, 2001
Spirits of the Fire Candle Chat
Dave Flight offered to setup & launch a public IRC chat for us in our continuing quest for the best, easiest, most accessible chat room for scheduled chats that can accommodate a lot of people. He did so, and we need lots of people to hit it tonight between 9 & 11PM CST to fully test the capabilities. Thanks for your help & have fun!

This does not mean that the AIM chat & ICQ are not still great alternatives - try them all - use what works for you. It's great to have options!

June 21, 2001
AOL AIM Chat

Netscape Users: Right-click on the link above, choose "Save Link As" and save it to your desktop. Launch the chat window by clicking on the icon on your desktop.

IE Users: Left-click on the link as if to open it as you would any link. You can choose either "Open this file from its current location", in which case it should open the chat, or choose "Save the file to disk", and download the link to your desktop, from which you can then double-click to open the chat window as you would any other link.

Please email me if you follow the appropriate instructions for your browser and it still
doesn't work.

You do not have to be an AOL subscriber to take part in the AIM chat, and I don't have to be "in" the chat room in order for it to be "open".

You do need to have AOL Instant Messenger installed - it
is free to download from www.aol.com , but if you are a Netscape user you already have it installed. Find it on the menu drop-down under Communicator: AOL Instant Messenger.

The BoB screen name is: bestofboards (of course), and here are 35 additional BoB
users to start your buddy list
off with.

As suggested in a message board topic earlier today, it is a very wise idea to set
security preferences on your AIM Buddy List in a similar manner as we did for ICQ.

The following screen will pop up, from which you should set file transfer
preferences on the File Transfer tab, so as to not allow incoming files.
This is just general good practice to avoid becoming a target for viruses.

So, should you still use ICQ? Sure - if it's working for you, go for it! If you're having troubles getting it to respond correctly, you might give AIM a try, especially since it is most likely already installed on your machine. In addition, we are still testing out a couple other large group chat options. Dave Flight, from Spirits of the Fire, is heading up the mass chat effort, so stay tuned!

BoB ACS Raffle Update
$400.00 total as of today!
Only 26 more days left to enter the Grand Prize Raffle AND the BoB Bonanza Box
giveaway! Entries must be received by July 16 to qualify for both prizes.
See the Entry Instructions page for details:

June 19, 2001
Leader Forum Access Request working again.
The Request form has been recreated and is again working. If you are a Unit Leader or above and have not been able to gain access to the Leader Only Forum on the message board, Click Here to resubmit your registration. You MUST be a registered EZBoard User.

June 17, 2001 New Business Link!
Janie's Sand Stackers are an awesome way to pack samples of all the different decorative sands without the weight of 6 jars. You can order online securely through a direct link to PayPal, or mail a check or money order. As with all our sponsoring businesses, product is shipped when payment is received. If you ever have a problem receiving product you have paid for, please email me directly with the details so I can follow up with the vendor.


 

 

June 16, 2001
Friday Nite Fling & Vendors at Conference Update!

Just a reminder: NO Vendors are "sanctioned" by the company for attendance
during conference. ALL vendors participate at their own cost and OFF actual
"Conference" grounds (i.e. TWA Dome). The "Friday Nite Fling" is also not a
company-sponsored event. Now that we have the "legal" disclaimer out of the way LOL, on to the news you all have been waiting for!

Friday Nite Fling & Vendor Info
This year to make it easy for all of you to visit the vendors several of them have combined into one hotel and one large ballroom.

Hotel: The Wyndham Mayfair Hotel
Location: 8th and St Charles Streets
this is 1 block from the front door of the Convention Center

Hours Open:

Tuesday 2:00pm to 11:00pm
Wednesday 9:00am to 6:00pm
Thursday 4:00pm to 11:00pm
Friday 4:00pm to 11:00pm
Friday Night Alert****
7:00 pm - ?? ACS Raffle Drawing at 9:00 pm.
This is also the location for the BOB Friday Night Fling. Lots of room for mingling and a cash bar for you enjoyment.
Lots of prizes from the vendors!!!!
Saturday 12:00pm to 4:00pm

Vendors that will be there:
ParonCandles
Get Organized Candles
Ellie-Jo's Scent Stacks
The Bag Lady
Jim Britton 3 Step Display
The Booster
Express Yourself

Janie's Sand Stackers

Note: Express Yourself will be displaying in the Wyndham room and selling product in the Drury Hotel, and also present at the Friday Nite Fling in the Wyndham. More Info on Express Yourself at Conference.

All of the vendors will have their products with them that you may purchase and take home with you. This will be fun and easy for you and exciting for all of the vendors to be together.

NEW!! "Little Stuff" set from The Bag Lady
Three small bags that will fit the sconce cups, the frosted lotus blossoms, the dragonfly cup, each bag comes with three padded circles to use between items so you can load two in a bag. They sell for $9.95 for the 3-bag set or individually for $3.50 each. Check out all of Shirley's awesome packing aids at www.bestofboards.com/baglady 

June 13, 2001
Regularly Scheduled ICQ Chat 9:00 pm CST
I unfortunately will not be there as MY ICQ is being temperamental, and I also have baseball tickets to the Royals/Cardinals game tonight, so Evan & I are going to get out of the house and away from the computer & drink beer & eat peanuts (OK no beer for Evan and only one for me LOL)

I have asked Jennifer (flameNarizona - 120845006), Charlene (See&Emm - 42829939), and Jackie (tealited - 120837700) to help get people in & out of chat tonight. (the parenthesis are their ICQ screen names/numbers). How do you get in? Make sure at least those three folks are on your ICQ contact list, and when you see them online, message them to request the chat. If you have trouble, try posting on the message board and someone who is on ICQ may be able to help you.

A handy tool: if you are already a member of the candlecyberunit list on YahooGroups, Jenn has set up a database that you can enter your instant messaging IDs in and view other folks IDs so you can get in touch. The direct link to go update your info or look for someone else is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/candlecyberunit/database. If you are not a member when you go to the link I believe you will be prompted to join. For more information on this particular subject - email Jenn@bestofboards.com.

June 12, 2001
BoB ACS Raffle!
It's that time again! If you would like to enter the Raffle and join our efforts to fight cancer, go to the BoB ACS Raffle 2001 page to read all the details!
Grand Prize to be announced soon!
  
BoB Bonanza Box!  Enter by July 16 to be eligible!
All entries received by July 16, will also go in the Bonus drawing for the BoB Bonanza Box - filled with goodies! 


USPS Breast Cancer Stamp imageJust a Reminder
As you may be aware, the US Postal Service released its "Fund the Cure" stamp over a year ago to help fund breast cancer research. The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland, and is still available for purchase in many areas.

It is important that we take a stand against this disease that kills and maims so many of our mothers, sisters, friends. Instead of the normal $.34 for a stamp, this one costs $.40. The additional $.07 will go to breast cancer research. A "normal" book costs $6.60. This one is only $8.00.

If the Breast Cancer Stamps are still available in your local post office, consider buying them the next time you buy stamps. A little bit can go a long way!

June 11, 2001
New search engine on BoB! 
Just click on the Click on the button to your left, in the navigation menu to search BoB! button on the left of this screen and try it out!  ( You may need to refresh your browser for the new search engine link to load) Best of the Boards has gotten so large that as you know, it's sometimes difficult to find that one file you remembered seeing.  Hopefully, this will solve that problem.   Let's all give it a good work-out!


Invitation to the "Red Cat Club"!
The AT&T chat room on BoB has been reliably unreliable as of late, and we would like to invite you all to try out ICQ. It is a great instant message/chat client, freely downloadable from www.icq.com . It's been around longer than MSN & AOL IM, and I used to use it a lot when we first created the BoB website. Please be aware though, that it's a good idea to take a few security & privacy precautions to avoid a lot of unwanted messages from unwanted sources.

For those who are about to sign up for a number - when you are filling out the registration screens - I STRONGLY suggest you do NOT specify age, birthdate, gender, and location (other than maybe state and/or country).

If you already filled it out and want to change your details - it's very easy to do so. Your system toolbox at the bottom of your screen probably looks something like this:

The little green flower is the ICQ icon. Right click on it and choose "Open ICQ". You will next see an ICQ Contact List pop up on the right side of your screen.--------->>>>> It's resizable, and movable to wherever you want to put it on your screen.

Notice the bottom section of the Contact List. The blank entry box is a handy search box to allow you to search the web. Directly above that are the letters ICQ. hint...hover your mouse over the letters (on your contact list - not this example) to "let the cat out of the bag"

Left click on the letters ICQ and you will get a popup menu that looks like this: 

Use the View/Change my Details to edit your profile (what anyone can see about you).
Use the Security & Privacy to manage HOW visible you are when online.

I STRONGLY suggest you use the following settings on the General & Ignore tabs. This should keep you from being the recipient of mass emails that are unwanted. It does mean that you have to authorize everyone who requests to be added to your contacts - 

There are lots more options you can explore and set to your particular preference. Explore the menus on your contact list screen, have fun. There are several really good help pages on the ICQ site to help you get the most out of the program. Guided Tour:

or for those who like shortcuts:


www.icq.com/icq123/
 

We will re-institute a Wednesday & Sunday night regularly scheduled chat starting this Wednesday 6/13 at 9 pm CST. Just be online, have ICQ running, and I'll drag you into the chat window from there!

Can I have an ICQ old-timer who would be willing to be a guru for a while to help people get in the swing of things? Email me with your messageboard screenname & your ICQ number if you're interested in helping answer questions and post helpful hints in an ICQ forum.

June 7, 2001
After two solid weeks of limbo and a lot of long hours on the phone, in front of FAQs, and in front of the computer screen, we should once again be in full control of the BoB website. There's a substantial bit of "cleanup" on a lot of the older pages of the site now that we are moved again, but between Jenn, Jackie & myself we should be able to make a pretty good run at it.

Things that quite likely may not work RIGHT NOW, or sporadically temporarily:

Guestbook
Contest Viewing Pages (which is why we are not having a caption contest right now - it WILL return)
Registration Forms (example: Leader Forum)
Some Navigation links

Already updated:
Current Monthly Mailing! (Thanks Jenn!)

New Feature on the Message Board - Other DSA Companies
If you are a consultant from another DSA company who frequents BoB and would like to have your own company-specific forum in this category on the message board - read the About this Forum post to find out how.

More What's New Pages from the Past:

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