It's a Party - and a Home Based Business Opportunity As Well

A Home Business Article Contributed by Sharon Hill

Lillian Vernon Offers a Brand New Home Based Business Opportunity

Lillian Vernon, merchandise retailer by catalog and web, has just introduced its "Celebrations, " a concept that will offer women and men their own home based business opportunity - to sell Lillian Vernon products by home party plan. The merchandiser is actively seeking consultants - whom they call Founders, because they are getting in on the ground floor. Along with general merchandise, the company offers the Lillian Vernon collection for seasonal events and commemorations.

Touted as just the right gift for wedding, anniversaries, birthdays and other special occasions, the items retail for $15-$35.

Here's How This Home Based Business Opportunity Works

You can work as a consultant selling directly to friends and family members you invite to attend your Lillian Vernon/Celebrations party. Or you can be a sponsor for someone else. Your base commission as a consultant is 25%, although you also earn bonuses for productivity - when you fall into the "superstar" category. You earn royalties for those consultants you sponsor.

Celebrations offers much support for your home based business opportunity. The company is responsible for collecting and submitting your sales tax and will pay any credit card fees incurred as you accept credit card payments for goods sold at your party. Celebrations will even ship the sold items directly to your customer. Your Celebrations pay will be directly deposited to your bank account twice monthly.

How do You Start This Home Based Business Opportunity?

You can go online to the consultant's order site, celebrationsbylillianvernon.com and download a very simple one-page application. Accompanying this application must be a check for $199. For this payment you will receive the Celebrations starter kit. The kit contains $250 worth of display products, as well as order forms, business supplies, training materials and Celebrations catalogs. As a consultant you will be able to continually access the Celebrations Internet Sales Management System.

This software program gives you the opportunity to order home party items online and manage your Celebrations home based business.

While this home party plan concept is brand new for Lillian Vernon, the company surely is not. It purports to have 4-5 million customers who are mailed 100 million catalogs annually. The Lillian Vernon web site, currently responsible for forty percent of all Lillian Vernon business (the Lillian Vernon management goal is to take this up to 50% this year), realizes between 800 million and one billion page views each year. Catalog sales now account for the remaining sixty percent of sales.

The company is strong on advertising, a fact that makes this an impressive home business opportunity. Not only does the firm regularly e-mail promotions to those who request it, do direct mail advertising, and send out catalogs, but they constantly remind the general public about Lillian Vernon through online and search engine marketing, magazine ads and freestanding print publication inserts.

While the Celebrations home party plan concept may be an untested venture, the support is there for a consultant to succeed, the growth is there through increased sales and bonuses and the opportunity to sponsor, and the Lillian Vernon name is one that should bring folks to your home party.

Have a party and earn money - what could be better?