Tina Leininger, Home Business Job Vendor

Ten year veteran, Tina Leininger of Longaberger, attends the home business job fair to show off her fabulous baskets.

Ten year veteran, Tina Leininger of Longaberger, attends the home business job fair to show off her fabulous baskets.

Leininger of Lebanon, PA found out about this particular event through a friend, who is also the coordinator. Otherwise, she usually finds out by networking at other events, CraftListers, and ads in merchandisers and newspapers.

With 7 members in her downline, Tina keeps them motivated through monthly meetings, regular email messages and challenges with incentives. Instant gratification [her paychecks] and the desire for the products by customers are a couple of the more important reasons for choosing this company. She also shares that one of her favorite aspects of her business is the friendships that she has made over the years.

When I asked Leininger approximately how much time she spends on her business, she proudly replied, “This is the beauty of the direct sales business, time varies to whatever you make it. When my children were younger, my time was usually one hour every other day. But, now that they are older I try for at least one hour everyday. If it is a day of a party or event, then of course more time is spent, but it is also planned. As a Branch Leader, I also set aside 1 day a month for 2 hours to plan m my meetings, incentives and update my knowledge of company issues.”

Tina responded that business cards – “because they hold the resource information of everything for me i.e. contact of me, contact of the company, and online reviewing and order of products” – would be her choice if she were only able to bring one thing to an event such as this one.

A few words of wisdom …
Always network, especially with other direct sales companies. We all have good ideas, suggestions and resources. We all have good days and bad days. Networking with others helps keep you and your business in line and conquers the ‘fear’ and ‘I can’t do this’ mentality.”



A little more about Longaberger…

Home décor, baskets, pottery and wrought iron makes up the product for Longaberger.

There aren’t any territory restrictions or requirements to hold parties.

Consultants can acquire promotional materials through the company’s home office. They vary in pricing but, for example – Feature Flyers are $17/100 and Wishlist (full catalogs) $13/30.
To stay active, Longaberger does require you to have $1000 in sales per year but they do not require consultants to keep inventory.

Longaberger offers but there is no requirement for consultants to have a company sponsored website that allows ordering for $75 a year.

Consultants are responsible for hostess credits/gifts.

Shipping and handling costs 10% of the order and usually delivers within 3 – 4 weeks (but does vary at times). They also offer dropshipping for a small additional feel.

Home consultants earn 25% commission on personal sales. Branch Leaders earn between 5.1% and 6% of direct team sales and 3% of indirects if monthly direct group personal sales are $6,000+. If less than $6,000 – 3% and 1.5%.

Personal commissions are kept immediately when paid for shows. Leadership commissions are paid via direct deposit monthly.

Free featured products earned in each new campaign with consultants who have sales of $1000 a month and free products and money at times with new recruits that sign and qualify with $1000 in sales in 30 days are a few of the additional bonuses offered through Longaberger.

Consultants pay company via check, money order or direct withdrawal. Consultants have the option to sign up with a credit car service company if they wish to accept credit cards. There is no minimum purchases.

The opportunity structure is named as follows:
First Line – Home Consultant
Second Line (with 6 direct recruits) – Branch Leader
Third Line (with 3 branches in addition to your branch) – National Sales Leader

Longaberger offers downline incentives with every campaign and monthly.

They do offer a fundraising opportunity. They also offer a program Design-a-Basket which allows an organization or group to make their own basket and sell.

Start up kits range in pricing of:
$129, $249, $399 (the $399 kit also offers an opportunity of complete refund). Each kit varies with the amount of sample products and is at least a 50% savings.

Longaberger also offers several forms of training for consultants.

Taxes are taken care of via the company.
They do have a buy-back policy, had a non-compete close in place and will return merchandise within 90 days, but most times will replace flaw items any time.

Consultants may not advertise online.

Please note that any of the above is subject to change and was true at the time of this writing. Please be sure to contact the coordinator below with any questions, comments, concerns and/or changes.

Tina Leininger – Branch Leader
whytewynd@yahoo.com
http://www.mylongaberger.com/tinaleininger