Scrapbook Consulting Companies

A friend on the internet was asking me about the various scrapbook companies but I can't help her out with it. Could the rest of you maybe share your experiences, which I can then relay back to her?

This is her question:

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Are there other scrapbook companies that sell scrap supplies in the same manner that CM does. I would like to bring in a little extra cash for us, but don't want the complications of a set schedule plus, it would really be nice to get my supplies at cost . Anyway, the only one I know of is CM but to be honest I would feel kind of like a hypocrite selling for them because I don't use their albums and I don't use many of their products. I like their tools but that's about it. I am wondering if there's another company that I could sell that is a little more my style. I thought there was, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is

Thanks in advance Sharon K Saskatoon, SK

300+ photos from my trip printed to scrapbook, over 1300 taken!
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Sharon K in Saskatoon
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I do it for my LSS that was in my old town. Dont know how thigns work there, but the little shops are starting to get consultants over here. I love it, works in well with Bella :) and gives me a great chance to meet new people with SB. Took a while with setting classes up due to the amount of CM ppl over here. Most people are starting to realise how restrictive that product is tho :), which is great news for moi :)

HTH

Tracy

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Peggy

Sharon! I did not know you were back! Did I miss your report? You must have some wonderful stories and pix for great LO.

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

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Sabrina

Sharon, I tried to email you, but it came back to me. I have some info for you, if you'd like to email me.

Thanks! Suz

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SuzaStampin

Sharon, I tried to email you, but it came back to me. I have some info for you, if you'd like to email me.

Thanks! Suz

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SuzaStampin

I also tried to e-mail privately, but it got returned so I am posting info here. To the rest of y'all, please don't think of this as SPAM. I am only answering her questions.

Cecelia

**************************************************** If I understand right, it's your friend who is wanting this info. Could you please forward this along to her? Thanks!

I'm a Stampin' Up Demonstrator. No, we don't ONLY do scrapbooking, but we are rapidly growing our scrapbooking area. I've done entire workshops only with scrapbooking. I generally only do this when the hostess asks and the rest of the time I do a card and a scrapbook page. Everybody at the workshop does both projects and there is no charge. There is no set schedule. You work when you want. We have a quarterly minimum of $300. This is a calendar quarter, NOT a "rolling quarter" like CM does. If you aren't sure what this means, if you are selling CM their minimum is a $500 order on a rolling quarter meaning that you can have several smaller orders that add up to $500 and it still doesn't count. You have to have ONE $500 order in the rolling quarter and as soon as you do that then your quarter starts over. As an example, if you turn in a $500 order on January 1st, your 3 months starts the next day. If you place another $500 order on February 1st, your 3 months starts over the next day. With Stampin' Up we work on calendar quarters so you have January, February and March to come up with a total of $300 in orders. You can turn in 2 workshops of $150 each or

10 personal orders of $30 each or whatever. And it's always on the quarter. If somebody starts now, their quarter doesn't start until January because Stampin' Up doesn't count their first partial quarter. The current quarter started October 1st so they have this time to settle in or whatever and they have to have $300 in sales between January 1 and March 31. If you would like, I can send a copy of the kit contents. We have an "add-on" kit with scrapbooking supplies. You save about 40% off retail with the kit then our commission starts at 20% and goes up depending on how much you sell in a month. I do not use only Stampin' Up stuff in my scrapbooks, but I only take my Stampin' Up stuff to workshops IF Stampin' Up carries that item. In other words, if Stampin' Up doesn't sell anything like it I won't go out and buy 10 for a workshop (too costly and doesn't make sense to actually promote another product), but when I'm doing a crop then I will have my own stuff there and allow people to look at my albums. I tell them an item isn't Stampin' Up because Stampin' Up doesn't make that item. If you haven't fallen asleep yet (LOL, sorry about the long read), I also wanted to point out that we don't pay for hostess benefits. The company pays all that.

If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask. If you would like to talk one-on-one, I would be happy to call you.

Cecelia

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Cecelia Medbery

Heya Sabrina!

I've been back since the 10th of September, but never did write up a report, as I'm hardly ever on the group anymore!

I did have a great time tho, got to meet three of our wonderful members from New Zealand, and spend some time with them.

As you can see from my siggy, I took over 1300 photos.. gotta love digital cameras! I printed just over 300 of them, and can't wait to start scrapbooking them. Have to wait til everyone has had a chance to see them in real life tho.

Shar> Sharon! I did not know you were back! Did I miss your report? You must

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Sharon K in Saskatoon

Thanks Cecelia,

I will pass it on to her!

Shar> I also tried to e-mail privately, but it got returned so I am posting info

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Sharon K in Saskatoon

Hi Sharon,

Top Line Creations is one of the scrapbooking companies that has direct sales consultants. A store can also sign up to be a consultant and have downline. We have consultant divisions in the US, Canada and as of November

1st - Australia and New Zealand.

The cost to join is only $75 (plus $12 shipping/handling) and there are no minimums. The only requirement to stay active is $25 (US) retail once every six months. If you or your friend or anyone else would like more info, please email me at snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net Regards, Betsey

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Betsey Terry

I was a consultant for CM for about a year and got bored. theirr tools are awesome, but white, neutral and black pages had me bored to tears so I stopped ... then I saw a Stampin up catalog became a demonstrator for Stampin UP without ever holding a stamp in my hand and I love it! they have all the goodies plus rubberstamps.. They have albums, kits, eyelets, ribbons, hemp, tags, heat embossing, dry embossing, you name it , I finally feel creative again , because I can actually create!! If you are your friend would like more info, let me know and I can get it to you

Tanya ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Tanya Williams Stampin' Up! Demonstrator (302) 539-4783 (302) 745-3485

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Tanya & Jimmy Williams

Thanks for the info... I've passed both of them on!

Sharon K Saskatoon, SK

300+ photos from my trip pr> I was a consultant for CM for about a year and got bored. theirr tools are
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