Student FYI

Student FYI

Welcome Prospective and Enrolled Students!

Enrolled Students:

For the Comprehensive 6 day Classes the first 5 days are being held at the Holiday Inn Express, 9402 Corporate Lake Drive and Anderson Road, Tampa 33634 813-885-3700 www.hiextampahotel.com The last day of class is held at another venue (changes for each class).

The HI Manager has given our Balloon Class a great deal of $69 per night at her beautiful hotel. This includes a full hot breakfast and coffee service all day! Across the street is a Starbucks, 3 restaurants, Subway, and AMC 24 Theater. Make sure you book in our "block" when making the reservation to get this price! If it does not show up when booking, we can adjust when you get here. See more info on the hotel under the "accommodations" menu bar on this website.

Taxi from Hotel to airport is approximately $18. Tell cab driver if he takes you on the toll road to get you to the hotel, he gets no tip! Of course these price chg as the gas prices rises!

Note: Do not buy anything before you come here. Please use all my equipment and decide what things you like...then buy!! SO MANY people buy equipment you don't need and waste so much money. I will teach you how to make things without all the extra equipment these manufacturers tell you need! I can save you the cost of this course.

Additional notes for the 6 day Comprehensive Seminar:

1. Everyone needs to have their training manual in hand before the class starts and have it read. This suggestion came from all previous classes and said this is a must. The hitch is you have to be fully paid. To receive your manual When all the students complete the reading at home, we end up with more hands-on time in class & ultimately do more decor work!!!! It has been a tremendous time saver.

This means that your tuition should be paid 30 days before the start of class and I send your book priority 2 day air. You must read before attending class. Last class one student did not read the book. The furious class members told her not to come back the next day unless she read her book. For the students coming from out of the country: Please come 1 day early so you can sit and read before the class starts. If you are registering late, you have to have enough time to receive your book and read in order to get into the class.

All I can say is plan ahead if you really want to be in a class. I am the only seminar in the US that teaches A-Z Everything on how to run a balloon decorating business like this. You can be up and running as soon as you leave this class. There are many balloon seminars you may wish to take later. These you watch the instructor make something and then you re create a bunch of designs when you return home. This is OK if you already know what you are doing. And you will know EVERYTHING.

ABOUT DEPOSITS: A $200 deposit means you are serious about attending a class. You are allowed to move your deposit to another session (4 weeks before class start date- if life throw you a curve about attending,) without losing it. You may do this only 1 time. At any given time I have 10-16 enrollment forms on each class of people wanting to attend. What happens is someone will read the website, decide they are coming, pay their full tuition by Paypal the same day so they can get their training manual to be assured a seat. Seat Gone! Happens fast and it happens ALL the time. As time get closer to class the ones who pay up get the seats. A class I had in 2008. I had $200 deposits on all 8 of the seats for 6 months. No one put any more money down on their seat. 8 weeks before, new people started coming in an buying up the seats with 1 payment and booted out most of the students who did not secure their seat. They then moved to the next class. Word to the wise: My Summer class is always sold out months ahead. This is the most popular class of the season! (If want to be sure you are in a particular class you may put down 50% of your tuition to hold your seat.) You must pay your balance a minimum of 31 days before class date. If 8 students were all to put down 50% on their seat, I will consider the class full and delete it from the web site.

Student Homework:

1. Find out what the cost of a helium tank is in your area. You are looking to rent a 242 cubic ft tank. Find out what they charge you for demurrage (daily rental) or cost to contract for rental of a tank for a year. Know what deposit they need from you and how long they will be holding it.

2. Call your local yellow pages and find out when the new book is coming out for this year and when the deadline is to get in it. Ask for their rates. We are NOT going to buy a display ad. Just Get price quotes for our marketing session.

3. Work on picking out a company name. (Do not do this until you read the first chapter in your manual!) Per the book instructions, have at least 4-5 choices ready and we will tweak them with you. A lot rides on your name and what you do!

4. If you are already getting balloons wholesale, know what they cost you.

5. Set up a Paypal account in your name. It does not have to be your business name.... It takes time to get one verified so it is a good idea to start ahead. You will be using this form of payment if anyone want to pay you by credit card.

6. If you are using an email from hotmail.com, get a new one. I send you tons of stuff after the class is over to a mass mailing of graduates. Most free hotmail accounts dump anything that has many recipients, too big a file or too many pictures. I will never know what you did not get. You don't want to miss these updates and recipes. Yahoo still has free emails. I have not lost one email yet. Be simple, just use your name @yahoo.com

7. RESIST the temptation to buy anything. Wait until after you take the class! (or email me first) Trust me! ONLY thing you need before the class are some back issues of magazines I would like you to get- this info is on page 1 of your training manual.

*Take my plea for resting and coming refreshed seriously. Bring your vitamins. I'll give you last sessions class's email addresses and they will confirm that this is a necessity. Cramming 30 years of experience into is hard enough for me to do...much less for you to absorb. It is intensive, along with fun. NO ONE has ever accused me of not getting their moneys worth------ever.

Once your money is in....THERE IS ONE MORE FORM TO FILL OUT BEFORE YOU GET HERE

Please go to: www.learnballoondecorating.com/ClassInformationSheet.htm It helps greatly with planning and class roster.

If you need to call me after you read all the info,

please do so at 813-885-6500.

Info for payments: My address if you do not want to use Paypal:

Mail check to: Linda Kiss, 7515 Winging Way Tampa FL 33615

Here is my alternate email address in the event my site is ever down...

lindakiss@verizon.net

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