Archive for April 24th, 2009

  • Flexibility And Extra Cash Spurs Home-Based Sales

    Argus Leader:
    After Heidi Van Veldhuizen quit a sales job four years ago to help her mother dying of cancer, she gradually assumed the roles of wife and full-time mother of four.
    “But there had to be more to my day than a loaf of banana bread,” she says, and six months ago she began to investigate [...]

  • Laid Off? Direct Sales Is Calling.

    The State:
    When De Ann Mensch was laid off last month for the second time in a little over a year, she did not polish her resume.
    Instead, the ex-bank teller (and ex-mortgage loan closer) burnished her sterling silver jewelry and her sales pitch. Now the soft-spoken Mensch, 44, of Pennsburg, Pa., spends several hours a week [...]