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Leanne McGarr · #1 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 08:45 AM

Here is the information for Lia Sophia

How old is your company and how many advisors do you have nationwide? Give a history of the start up of your company?

The company itself is over 30 years old. It used to be known as Lady Remington Jewelry. When the owner passed away, his son took over and renamed it Lia Sophia after his two daughters. He brought designers in to update the jewelryline. That was in 2004 and we have been growing like crazy since then. We grew 55% in 2007!! Still lots of room for growth with this stable company.
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How much is average start up cost?

Our kit is only $149.99 plus $3.80 shipping & your local tax. You get 25 piecesof our most popular jewelry valued at over $1000. You also receive enough business supplies to get you through your first few shows.
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What is your discount to buy new jewelry samples?
70% off!! You may purchase one of each of our pieces at this great discount! __________________________________________________ _______________________________________________

Does your company offer a guarantee and does it have ANY exclusions? (meaning can a customer return the item for any reason, in any time frame, & not get rejected)

We offer an Unconditional Lifetime Guarantee for any reason. There are no exclusions. As long as you have a piece of the jewelry to send in, you can send it back in with your receipt and get a piece of the same value.
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Who handles the returns?
The customer sends the jewelry in to the company & the company handles the return. They will also include a $5 GC to reimburse the postage!
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What is your base commission for a new advisor? 30% on all customer sales & hostess' half price selections.

What are the minimum requirements to stay Active?
you must submit a $250 party every 12 weeks (3 months) in order to be considered "active". After that you are still a rep, you just don't receive the company mailings. You have another year after you go inactive until you would have to rejoin.
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Do you earn anything on what the hostess gets? You earn your commission on the Hostess' half price items.

Do you pay anything for the hostess benefits? $6 per party.

If you give extra hostess benefits, how much does it cost you?
We can give extra free jewelry to the hostess at 30% of the cost. For example, I give a hostess an extra $50 in FREE jewelry if she has $250 in outside orders before her show. It only costs me $15 to give that to her ($50 x .30). It is a great incentive to walk in knowing that you have already made $75!
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Do you have a monthly customer special?
We have an Everyday special where when a customer buys 3 items her MOST expensive is 50% off. We also add to that each month. An example of a monthly special might be Use our Everyday special, then you can add 3 bracelets at 50% off.
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Do you earn money on any special that the customer gets. Yes, you earn your 30% commission on anything that the customer buys.
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What is YOUR party average?
My party average is around $600. The company average is around $750. I live in a lower income state. But I have lots of parties that are over $1k & some that are only $300. That is the nature of the business!
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Does the company have any sort of discounted jewelry for giveaways that you can buy from them?
Yes, we can purchase a 10 pack of retired jewelry for $35. I use them as an incentive to get the guest lists back in 3 days.
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How much is shipping on your customer orders? $3.80 per customer.

How much is shipping on your business supply orders? $3.80 per biz supply order, no matter how much you buy
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How much are your catalogs & other business supplies?

Catalogs are $6.50 per 10 pack(65 cents each). Twice a year (when the new catalog comes out) we can purchase a case of 100 catalogs for $55 (so .55 per catalog).

Mini Catalogs $3.75 for a pack of 30
Postcard Invitations $3 per pack of 100
Guest Lists (with top copy labels) $3.75 per pack of12
Wish list pad $2 per pad of 50
Cust. Order forms $2.75 per pack of 50
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Is there an annual renewal fee? Nope
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Do you start earning off your first recruit? If so, how much? What is the minimum that must do to earn off of your recruit? If there is a minimum sales for the team for you to earn, how much is that?

You don't earn money off of your recruits until you promote to Unit Manager. You do earn free jewelry certificates and incentives for recruiting. Once you do promote to Unit Manager, you earn a whopping 10% on the retail sales though!

Ex; One of the women you sponsor sells $1k in the month and another sells $300. You would earn $130 on those sales!

In order topromote to Unit Manager, you must have at least 4 personal recruits. Your unit must sell at least $7000 andof that $2k must beyour personal sales.

That may sound scary but I will tell you that there has never been a month with Lia Sophia that I have not sold atleast $2500. most months, I sell over $3500 and I only do about 6 shows a month.
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Does your company allow or have websites with your catalog on them? If so what else can you do from your website? Can people sign up on your site, buy directly from your site, can you customize your site at all? How much is your website per month or per year?

Yes, we can get a site through the company with an online catalog, evite capabilities, newsletter capabilities, and contact assistant for only $9.95 per month. Customers can buy directly from the site. You can customize the site to some extent on the features and events pages. You can change up the pictures, put your own picture, etc. Very simple to use. A person who wants to sign up can also sign up on your site with a password that you have given them.
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DO you have direct shipping (meaning you can send a single order to a customer who doesn’t order from a party)? How much is shipping on a direct order? Yes, you can send out a single order and the shipping is still only $3.80
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Is there a Super Start Period for new recruits?
We have Excellent Beginnings. It is a 15 week period when you start that is divided up into 3 five week segments. In each 5 week period, where you sell $1500, you earn a $200 jewelry certificate to pick out the jewelry of your choice.
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How often do you come out with new catalogs? How many new pieces are brought on and retired from each catalog?

We have two catalogs a year. We retire 200 items from each catalog and bring on 200 items each catalog. This is great because it keeps our line updated and fresh. Customer love to keep coming back to our shows because they know they will see some new items. The company makes it easy for us to earn free jewelry so we don't have to worry too much about losing our pieces because they were FREE to begin with. Or at least 70% off!
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A few other notes. The company pays all credit card fees and processing (Visa, MC, Discover), any sales taxes, etc.

Thanks!
Leanne[/B]

jewelrymom3 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 09:29 AM

Hello, I sent you a PM about information!!

Much Success in your search, let me know if I can help in anyway..

bluvddavina · #3 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 09:30 AM

Here are my answers LeAnne:

How old is your company and how many advisors do you have nationwide? Give a history of the start up of your company? Stella & Dot is almost 4 years old, we started in October 2004. Back then we were known as Luxe Jewels, we did jewelry making parties, over the past few years we discovered not everybody wants to learn how to make jewelry, so this year, 2008, we went strictly to ready made jewelry. We offer fashion jewelry all the way up to genuine gemstone, .925 sterling silver jewelry and gold vermeil. We have about 400 Stylists in the US and 50 in Canada.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com

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How much is average start up cost (for those that have different levels or packages, please state those as well)? What is the value of the jewelry that you get for that price? How many pieces do you get in the kit? It is $199 to start, usually with that you get all the business supplies you need and two pieces of our best selling jewelry, then you receive a gift certificate for $225 to pick out whatever additional samples you want, you can get 6 more pieces with that, and then you receive 50% off any other samples above that. During April we are testing out a new kit. It is still $199, instead of the $225, you will receive $500 in free jewelry, that will give you 14 pieces of jewelry and then if you want to spend an additional $400 you can get $1,000 more worth of jewelry bringing your kit total to $1500 worth of jewelry.
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What is your discount to buy new jewelry samples? 50% off when the pieces are first released, you have about a month to get your samples, then after that it is 25% off
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Does your company offer a guarantee and does it have ANY exclusions? (meaning can a customer return the item for any reason, in any time frame, and not get rejected) We have a Lifetime Guarantee, for the first 60 days they can return it for any reason, after 60 days they can return it for any defects or breaking due to normal wear and team, not a baby pulling and breaking the piece, but they have to pay $5.
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Who handles the returns? The Company does
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What is your base commission for a new advisor? We earn25% of retail sales. If you do $1500 retail sales in a month, you earn an additional 5% bringing total commission to 30%.
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What are the minimum requirements to stay Active? No minimum requirement to stay a Stylist<O:P></O:P>
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Do you earn anything on what the hostess gets? No<O:P></O:P>
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Do you pay anything for the hostess benefits? No<O:P></O:P>
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If you give extra hostess benefits, how much does it cost you? If you are giving a piece of jewelry, then whatever the price of the piece is minus 25%. You can give whatever you want or you can choose not to give anything extra at all.
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Do you have a monthly customer special or what other customer plan do you have? Do you earn money on any special that the customer gets. Yes, we have what we call the Party Perk, if a customer spends $50 then they have the choice of two necklaces that they can purchase for $11.99. Yes, we earn commission on the Party Perk.
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What is YOUR party average-not the company average? $650<O:P></O:P>
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Does the company have any sort of discounted jewelry for giveaways or other fun giveaways that you can buy from them? No<O:P></O:P>
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How much is shipping on your customer orders? $4.00<O:P></O:P>
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How much is shipping on your business supply orders? Depends on the value of the order, usually it runs $5.95 because it is sent US Priority Mail.
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How much are your catalogs, order forms, guest lists, and other business supplies? Catalogs are $1.00 a piece. Order forms and guests lists run $6.00 for a pack of 50. We earn Business Supply Credit if you do $775 in retail sales in a month, so if you are actively partying then you get your business supplies for free.
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Is there an annual renewal fee? Yes, $25.00<O:P></O:P>
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Do you start earning off your first recruit? If so, how much? What is the minimum that YOU[/B] must do to earn off of your recruit? If there is a minimum sales for the team for you to earn, how much is that? Yes, you earn off of your very first recruit, 4%. You must do $775 retail sales in a month to get override commissions. No minimum sales for the team to do for you to earn, as long as you do the $775 in retail sales you will earn your override commissions no matter what they do. If you do not do the $775 in a four month period, I mean if you go April, May, June, July and do not do $775 retail sales during any of those months, you could lose your downline, but you could go April, May, June with no sales at all and not lose your team, you would just need to get the $775 in July to not lose them.
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Does your company allow or have websites with your catalog on them? If so what else can you do from your website? Can people sign up on your site, buy directly from your site, can you customize your site at all? How much is your website per month or per year? Yes, we have our own personal Stylist e-boutique. The sites are fully functional with the catalog, the customers can purchase from the site and sign up from the site. On the Stylist page you can upload pictures, customize a blog section, link to an external party calendar, link to an external picture gallery to show pictures of your parties and downline, can pretty much link to any website you want. Site is $9.99 a month. You can view my website to see what it is like, it is in my signature.
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DO you have direct shipping (meaning you can send a single order to a customer who doesn’t order from a party)? How much is shipping on a direct order? Yes, we have direct shipping, it is $5.95 for most orders, if they order a lot of jewelry it will be slightly more.
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Is there an Excellent Beginnings or Super Start Period for new recruits? Please give details, requirements, and amounts. Yes, we have a jump start reward period. Here are the details:
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How often do you come out with new catalogs? How many new pieces are brought on and retired from each catalog? We come out with new catalogs twice a year, in March and August. Then we release a new piece every month or every other month to keep the line fresh. Off of the top of my head, I think about 30 new pieces get retired and come in. I could be wrong about that.
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shoppingmamma · #4 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 10:10 AM

How old is your company and how many advisors do you have nationwide? Give a history of the start up of your company? Wewere launched Aug 07 - we now have (as of May 08) a little over100 consultants nationwide...the company had planned for slow and steady growth and now that things are ironed out and we are ready now to EXPLODE!(which we ARE!!) GemStyle was founded by Scott and Wendi Miller. Scott has an extensive background in the wholesale diamond business and custom fine jewelry design. He co-founded diamonds.com which is the premier online retailer for fine jewelry. He has TONS of jewelry knowledge and business knowledge. GemStyle itself came about when he noticed his wife and her friends wearing more trendy and colorful pieces to match their outfits...he decided to combine the principles from fine jewelry design with the world of fashion!! Our pieces are very trendy, fashionable and FUN

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<O:P>Our kit is $199 plus tax and shipping. You get 15 of our best selling pieces and ALL the paperwork for your first 4 to 6 shows AND a rolling logo bag, tote, display pieces like tablecloth, stands, etc. Everything to be open for business! The value is over $500

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<O:P>Our last insert we got 35% off but with our new catalog coming out we did have the opportunity to EARN FREE jewelry from that catalog!!

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Does your company offer a guarantee and does it have ANY exclusions? (meaning can a customer return the item for any reason, in any time frame, and not get rejected)
<O:P>We now have a LIFETIME guarantee!!! For the first 60 days a customer can return anyitem for ANY reason - meaningeven if they just don't like it... after 60 days they can return any piecedue to breakage/defect. There is a $5 handling fee and they can get the same piece (if we have it) or one comparable in price (if they go over they just pay the difference)
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Who handles the returns? you can do it how you want - if you give the customer the home office number they can call and the home office will take care of it...I prefer (of course I've only had one return) to just handle it for the customer myself.
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What is your base commission for a new advisor?25%but we can earn UP TO 40% commissions on personal retail sales! <O:P></O:P>
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What are the minimum requirements to stay Active?as a consultant $150 in retail sales per rolling 3 month period. Once you get into management it'sthe same as above to stay active but$600 in personal retail sales per month to receive your downline commissions.
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Do you earn anything on what the hostess gets?not on her free stuff but on her 1/2 price yes...<O:P></O:P>
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Do you pay anything for the hostess benefits?nope not a penny! <O:P></O:P>
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If you give extra hostess benefits, how much does it cost you?I don't give anything... ...I think that is more than enough and don't feel I have to do anything extra...
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Do you have a monthly customer special or what other customer plan do you have? Do you earn money on any special that the customer gets.it varies....some months we have had a special and yes we got commissions on it ...other months like now with a new catalog we don't have an incentive other than NEW stuff...I like it that way really....since we don't always have a sale going the months we DO it's more special and customers do take notice...
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What is YOUR party average-not the company average? I would say mine is $500 ~ real life parties are higher but I've had friends and relatives out of state do catalog shows for me so to add up all my shows and average I'd say that's accurate. We are working on as a company to have a company wide $1000 party average - we have trainers from the DSWA helping with that! Since we started (like 3 weeks ago - mid April) our company average has went from about $500 to $650!!

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Does the company have any sort of discounted jewelry for giveaways or other fun giveaways that you can buy from them?for like doorprizes and such? not yet... we do have some discounted jewelry in our back office while supplies last...some was over $10 so good for booking incentive but for games and doorprizes I like to get cute shoe, jewelry, shopping etc. things from like the dollar store

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How much is shipping on your customer orders?$5.95 goes right to customer too!!
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How much is shipping on your business supply orders? usually $5.95 too ....unless you are ordering a ton...then they only charge you what they are charged...
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How much are your catalogs, order forms, guest lists, and other business supplies?some of our supplies are free to download in back office, catalogs are $14.99 for 20 and order forms $19.99 for 100... our FULL catalog is online and that helps...I have many hostesses give me back most of their catalogs (keeping maybe one for themselves) since they send out the link
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Is there an annual renewal fee?NO <O:P></O:P>
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Do you start earning off your first recruit? If so, how much? What is the minimum that YOU[/B] must do to earn off of your recruit? If there is a minimum sales for the team for you to earn, how much is that?<O:P></O:P>
<O:P>YES your first recruit promotes you to Trainer...you earn 2% on your personal sponsor's sales and a 1% bonus for any personal sponsor's sales who achieves the Get Started new consultant program. To earn these you need $600 in personal retail sales and $1800 in group retail sales (if your one is working towards Get Started you would totally have this!!)

Does your company allow or have websites with your catalog on them? If so what else can you do from your website? Can people sign up on your site, buy directly from your site, can you customize your site at all? How much is your website per month or per year?the company website is FREE...as of right now you cannot buy right from them or sign up on them but the full catalog is online and the consultant agreement is in a pdf in your backoffice. You can have your own websites too if you want...it's all explained in our policies and procedures manual and you just need home office approval.
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DO you have direct shipping (meaning you can send a single order to a customer who doesn’t order from a party)? How much is shipping on a direct order?all orders are $5.95 and all orders are shipped right to guests!!

And you can place single orders of any size....
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Is there an Excellent Beginnings or Super Start Period for new recruits? Please give details, requirements, and amounts.YES our Get Started Program... first 40 dayssell $1000 in personal retail sales and get $150 in FREE jewelry, next 30 days sell another $1000 in personal retail sales and get another $150 in FREE jewelry, the next 30 days do the same and get the same - do the full 100 days and that is $450 in FREE jewelry PLUS they will give you a $300 CASH bonus!!!
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How often do you come out with new catalogs? How many new pieces are brought on and retired from each catalog? Well this week is our 2nd catalog since we launched at the end of August 2007. I was told that it will have ALL the original pieces PLUS 250 new ones. Since our launch we have also had a holiday insert and Valentine's Day insert with maybe 7 or 8 pages of current jewelry and new pieces...
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<O:P>Well that should get me started! If you can think of anything else just ask!!! I also wanted to point out we have an EXCELLENT management program - when you promote you get a $1000 CASH bonus and then a matching $1000 CASH bonus for each 1st line manager you promote under you! WOW!!!

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edited 5/10 to reflect some NEW changes such as our LIFETIME guarantee!!!

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bejeweled · #5 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 10:12 AM

Sending you a PM on Parklane

Leanne McGarr · #6 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 11:03 AM

I would love it if you would all post your answers here instead of a PM. It would be easier to read them and you would be posting info that others could read as well.

Thanks!

WAHM in CA · #7 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 11:21 AM

Thanks for this great thread! I'm always lurking, and rarely post, but had to second Leanne~ please post your answers for all to read

I have been researching jewelry companies on and off for a year (had our first baby last July) and have received many catalogs and info from you lovely ladies, but there's always new stuff coming up, or companies that I missed. I am really interested in everyone's answers! Great questions Leanne!

LuvMyJewelry · #8 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 12:23 PM

Here are my answers for SD:
How old is your company and how many advisors do you have nationwide? Give a history of the start up of your company? The company was started 10 years ago, by two dynamite women, who are both so fun to be around...they have great humor and have installed in their reps to be generous to each other. They actually started doing a clothing style consulting business and were contacted by a jewelry manufacturer, after doing a local TV spot. At that point they included jeweley accessorizing into their business. It didn't take them long to realize that jewelry was the big ticket and started selling just jewelry. We have about 20,000 active reps (this is my opinion, could be more or less) and 1000 are in Calif...we are really taking off here.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com

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How much is average start up cost (for those that have different levels or packages, please state those as well)? What is the value of the jewelry that you get for that price? How many pieces do you get in the kit? It cost $199 to join and then you get whatever amount of jewelry that you want at 50% off. Keep in mind that you will also get FREE jewelry from your starter show, with a chance to earn ALOT of FREE jewelry in your first 100 days. Your website for 1 year is included with sign up, plus 50 catalogs, 500 business cards (2 sided with hostess info on back) 100 order forms, hostess packets, belt sizer, ring sizer and so much more.
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What is your discount to buy new jewelry samples? 50% when you first sign up and then 50%off onall new jewelry catalogs for 1 month....2 per pieces. 30% at all other times, plus you can earn $100 to $200 a month in FREE jewelry based on sales.
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Does your company offer a guarantee and does it have ANY exclusions? (meaning can a customer return the item for any reason, in any time frame, and not get rejected). 60 days for full refund or exchange...no cost to send back. Lifetime on the workmanship.
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Who handles the returns? The customer, or you as the reps if it is something you would like to handle.
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What is your base commission for a new advisor? 30%<O:P></O:P>
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What are the minimum requirements to stay Active? None, unless you go into leadership.<O:P></O:P>
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Do you earn anything on what the hostess gets? No<O:P></O:P>
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Do you pay anything for the hostess benefits? No<O:P></O:P>
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If you give extra hostess benefits, how much does it cost you? I give all my hostess a 15% discount on all future purchases from me, for one year. If they book with me once a year then they will always get the discount. It does not cost me anything except a % of discount.
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Do you have a monthly customer special or what other customer plan do you have? Do you earn money on any special that the customer gets. I offer different specials, not from the company, but SD does offer hostess extra FREE jewelry in Jan & Feb, plus they are drawing 10 names a month, from all customers who purchase $100 that month...the winners get $500 in FREE jewelry. We do not earn anything on these.
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What is YOUR party average-not the company average? $800<O:P></O:P>
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Does the company have any sort of discounted jewelry for giveaways or other fun giveaways that you can buy from them? No, but I use retired jewelry for extra incentives.
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How much is shipping on your customer orders? $4.00<O:P></O:P>
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How much is shipping on your business supply orders? $8.00<O:P></O:P>
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How much are your catalogs, order forms, guest lists, and other business supplies? Catalogs $1...order forms 50 for$5<O:P></O:P>
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Is there an annual renewal fee? Yes, $199...but this includes your website for one year, plus new catalogs when the come out and we have an awesome downline reporting system...live ing calls 4 times a week and personal coaches at the office if we need them. Lot's of other perks too.
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Do you start earning off your first recruit? If so, how much? What is the minimum that YOU[/B] must do to earn off of your recruit? If there is a minimum sales for the team for you to earn, how much is that? Yes...4% and $500 a month in PVC, commission goes all the way up to 18%
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Does your company allow or have websites with your catalog on them? If so what else can you do from your website? Can people sign up on your site, buy directly from your site, can you customize your site at all? How much is your website per month or per year? We have a website and can write up what we would like to say on our home page. No sign ups or ordering online, but they can view the entire catalog. Comes with sign-up and is included in our renewal fee.<O:P></O:P>
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DO you have direct shipping (meaning you can send a single order to a customer who doesn’t order from a party)? How much is shipping on a direct order? Yes, and all party orders are direct shipped, too. Same cost...$4<O:P></O:P>
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Is there an Excellent Beginnings or Super Start Period for new recruits? Please give details, requirements, and amounts. Yes, you can earn $3000 in Free jewelry in your first 100 days for sales ($500 for every $3000 in sales) and $500 for every new qualified recruit in your first 100 days. <O:P></O:P>
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How often do you come out with new catalogs? How many new pieces are brought on and retired from each catalog? Once a year for the main catalog and a spring time supplement.

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DazzlePremier · #9 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 07:35 PM

How old is your company and how many advisors do you have nationwide? Give a history of the start up of your company? Premier Designs is 23 years old and we have 28,000 reps nationwide. We are a unique DS company in that we put People before Profits. We consider ourselves more of a Direct Service compay rather than a Direct Sales company.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />
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How much is average start up cost (for those that have different levels or packages, please state those as well)? What is the value of the jewelry that you get for that price? How many pieces do you get in the kit? $395 Standard Start Up Fee includes catalogs, order forms, training materials, etc. About 10-15 pieces of jewelry acquired form Training Show. New start also earns all profit from Training Show!

President's Package, $750. This Kit of Jewelry is Optional, but a very good deal for those who like to save money.It is 70 pieces of jewelry valued at $2,000 plus extra business supplies!
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What is your discount to buy new jewelry samples? Always 50% or More! <O:P></O:P>
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Does your company offer a guarantee and does it have ANY exclusions? (meaning can a customer return the item for any reason, in any time frame, and not get rejected)Yes we have a Guarantee.I have never seen them deny a replacement or exchange for any reason.
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Who handles the returns? We, the jewelers, take care of this for our customers or they may choose to contact the company directly and handle it themselves.
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What are the minimum requirements to stay Active? None<O:P></O:P>
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Do you earn anything on what the hostess gets? No, but her half price selections do count towards recognition sales
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Do you pay anything for the hostess benefits? $8<O:P></O:P>
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If you give extra hostess benefits, how much does it cost you?My cost would depend on the circumstance
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Do you have a monthly customer special or what other customer plan do you have? Do you earn money on any special that the customer gets. We do not have customer specials. Our average price per piece is $29...no need for a special
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What is YOUR party average-not the company average? $602
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Does the company have any sort of discounted jewelry for giveaways or other fun giveaways that you can buy from them? YES!!!<O:P></O:P>
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How much is shipping on your customer orders? $2.50
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How much is shipping on your business supply orders? There are NONE!!! We receive Free Shipping on Business Supplies and Sample Jewelry Orders
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How much are your catalogs, order forms, guest lists, and other business supplies? Catalogs $13 for 12, Order Forms $2.50 for 50.
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Is there an annual renewal fee? Yes, $350
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Do you start earning off your first recruit? YES
If so, how much?

$200 Training Show Allowance plus 10%
What is the minimum that YOU[/B] must do to earn off of your recruit? $300 CV per month
If there is a minimum sales for the team for you to earn, how much is that?

No Team requirements
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Does your company allow or have websites with your catalog on them? No...There is a Company website for entering in your orders, on-line training, etc. It is FREE
If so what else can you do from your website? Can people sign up on your site, buy directly from your site, can you customize your site at all? How much is your website per month or per year?<O:P></O:P>
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DO you have direct shipping (meaning you can send a single order to a customer who doesn’t order from a party)? How much is shipping on a direct order? YES...it is $2.50<O:P></O:P>
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Is there an Excellent Beginnings or Super Start Period for new recruits? Please give details, requirements, and amounts. Quick Start in first 45 days---
6 Shows =$200 Free Jewlery, 9 Shows =$300 Free Jewelry
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How often do you come out with new catalogs? How many new pieces are brought on and retired from each catalog?Twice a year, January and July. We retire about 200 itemsevery June and bringout 200 new items in July to replace them! We also have a Christmas Supplement with Holiday jewelry<O:P></O:P>
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CatherineS · #10 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 08:25 PM

I am with Inspiranza Designs- affordable .925 Sterling Silver:

How old is your company and how many advisors do you have nationwide? Give a history of the start up of your company? Inspiranza Designs was founded in 2005 and began taking on consultants in 2006. Becoming a consultant in a new company gives you the opportunity to grow your business with no competition to book parties, grow your team and be rewarded for your efforts. We have about 200 consultants and want more to join us![img]smileys/smiley2.gif[/img] 

How much is average start up cost (for those that have different levels or packages, please state those as well)? What is the value of the jewelry that you get for that price? How many pieces do you get in the kit? You can begin for as little as $125 for the Basic Kit (1 piece) or upgrade to the Advanced Kit for $300 12 pieces ($400 retail value)or the Sterling Kit for $1,000 your choice of jewelry ($1850 retail value). 

What is your discount to buy new jewelry samples? $50% at sign up (also when new catalogs come out) and 30%

Does your company offer a guarantee and does it have ANY exclusions? (meaning can a customer return the item for any reason, in any time frame, and not get rejected)Yes, within forty-five (45) days of purchase an item may be returned in new and unworn condition for exchange or refund. Inspiranza Designs jewelry carries a lifetime repair or replacement warranty against manufacturers’ defects on our jewelry and a limited 1 year warranty on our watches. These warranties do not include damage to the product resulting from accident or misuse, or normal wear and tear.

Who handles the returns? The customer, unless the consultant wants to help out.

What is your base commission for a new advisor? 30%

What are the minimum requirements to stay Active?To Maintain an Active Status submit $100 in Sales within 3-month period. You will remain inactive until your $100 in sales is met

Do you earn anything on what the hostess gets?No

Do you pay anything for the hostess benefits?No

If you give extra hostess benefits, how much does it cost you? Haven't done that..

Do you have a monthly customer special or what other customer plan do you have? Do you earn money on any special that the customer gets.We are talking about doing a customer special, but we do a hostess special every month as an added gift.

What is YOUR party average-not the company average?$790

Does the company have any sort of discounted jewelry for giveaways or other fun giveaways that you can buy from them? yes

How much is shipping on your customer orders?$3.00

How much is shipping on your business supply orders?$5.00

How much are your catalogs, order forms, guest lists, and other business supplies? catalogs -$1.00, order forms - $5.00

Is there an annual renewal fee?No

Do you start earning off your first recruit? If so, how much? What is the minimum that YOU[/b] must do to earn off of your recruit? If there is a minimum sales for the team for you to earn, how much is that?Yes, 5%..me-$500, group $3500

Does your company allow or have websites with your catalog on them? If so what else can you do from your website? Can people sign up on your site, buy directly from your site, can you customize your site at all? How much is your website per month or per year?Company has a website, we are listed as consultants, people can sign up on our site, they can't buy directly, they can view the catalog. We can add a photo and paragraph with information. $2.99per month includes website and back office 

DO you have direct shipping (meaning you can send a single order to a customer who doesn’t order from a party)? How much is shipping on a direct order? $5.00

Is there an Excellent Beginnings or Super Start Period for new recruits? Please give details, requirements, and amounts.We have a Sterling Start Program a 15 week program broken up into 3 five week periods...1st five weeks earn $100 free jewelry, 2nd five week earn $200 free jewelry and 3rd five week earn $300 free jewelry. need to hit all to get $600. ($2000 minimum sales per five week) Recruiting incentives in first 15 weeks (gifts) 

How often do you come out with new catalogs? How many new pieces are brought on and retired from each catalog? 1 main catalog a year and we will be doing flyers through out the year.


Any more information, please pm me! 
Thanks,Catherine SimmonsIndependent Silver ConsultantInspiranza Designswww.inspiranzadesigns.com/catherinesimmons


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