Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Fashionable women are finding direct sales companies such as Carlisle, Doncaster and Worth to be the new/old resource for finding a personal stylist to work with their needs and time constraints. These companies are bringing back the appeal of personal shopping and combining it with the convenience of a home environment. The concept […]
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Las Vegas Review-Journal: Katie Jones sells Avon. Believe it or not, she does so without wearing a skirt suit, without dinging strangers’ doorbells, and without ever uttering the words “Avon calling.” Jones, 20, studies English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She holds a part-time data entry job, but relies on her Avon income
Montgomery Advertiser: Blair Critch tried to go back to work as a teacher after her two boys were old enough for day care, but she didn’t earn enough to make it worth the cost. Shortly after, she stumbled on a cute necklace from Stella & Dot in a magazine. She became a stylist for the
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Daily Toreador: When Shilo Matthews expresses her affection for “My Dear Watson,†she is not referring to a friend of hers — or Sherlock Holmes. Matthews, a sophomore petroleum engineering major from Artesia, N.M., works as a Scentsy consultant, selling candle warmers, wax in scents like Vanilla Cream and her favorite, My Dear Watson, and
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The Meadville Tribune: “We had to get back on track and try to get back up that hill,†said Conneaut Lake’s Sharla Buzzard. The sluggish American economy hit home for her and her family in a big way last year when her husband, Derrick, lost his job when the company he worked for went bankrupt.
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The Wall Street Journal: WHILE retailers are calling for an end to tax breaks that encourage customers to buy online, the direct-sales retail channel is booming. Direct sales have averaged annual sales growth in Australia of 12.5 per cent over the past three years, compared with growth of 4.1 per cent for the retail sector
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thespec.com: Votre Vu, a Sugar Grove, Ill., company that sells products containing ingredients from France, uses, in addition to parties, Twitter and iPhone applications to move merchandise. Mark, a line from Avon that is geared toward women ages 18 to 34, uses Facebook and iPhone applications as well as e-boutiques and celebrity endorsements. And Mary
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NPR: When Cindy Tisdale was laid off from her job as a transaction tax analyst, she started looking for new work right away. Then a former co-worker, who also lost her job, started selling jewelry for Silpada Designs. It’s a direct-sales company, where reps hold jewelry parties. Tisdale thought it sounded like a pretty good
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LA Times: The world of direct-sales cosmetics is in a state of transition. You might remember Avon’s door-to-door saleswomen or Mary Kay cosmetics from times past. But in the last few years, the industry has grown rapidly to include organizations that market via Facebook and Twitter, products that are available only on the Internet and
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DailyEmerald.com: Your grandma’s Tupperware parties will never be the same again. These days, women are throwing out conservative product parties in favor of something a little more risque — passion parties. A passion party, like a Tupperware party, brings in a consultant who sells their product to women. But instead of selling storage products, passion
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