{"id":2989,"date":"2007-10-05T21:17:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T03:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:36:00","slug":"theres-a-reason-its-a-product-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/theres-a-reason-its-a-product-party\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a reason it&#8217;s a product &#8216;party&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started to tell Laurie about this NPR story tonight but I think my typical opening, &#8220;I heard this story on NPR today&#8230;&#8221; turned her off. So I ended up not telling her. Yeah that will learn her &#8211; I&#8217;ll just post it on my blog instead \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nAnyways, <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2007\/10\/05\/theres_a_reason_its_a_product_party\/\">Marketplace<\/span> reported this morning on the growing numbers of product parties in recent months\/years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The words &#8220;product party&#8221; usually conjure up images of old ladies selling Tupperware. But Alex Goldmark discovered there were some out there that managed to be fun &#8212; and profitable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the report, twenty-five to 40 percent of all sales at these product parties go to the &#8220;comfort specialist.&#8221; And by the end of the particular night NPR reported on, where almost everyone made a purchase, hostess <strong>Lisa Gillette<\/strong>, a rep for with Jockey, made $1,300. Not bad for a part-time job once or twice a month.<br \/>\nI know I have several friends who are rolling in the money with Arbon and others who are working there way through Mary Kay.<br \/>\nBut the whole idea of a product party just brings to mind exactly what the story suggests, Tupperware or Amway. But I spose it&#8217;s working for some.<br \/>\n<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2007\/10\/05\/theres_a_reason_its_a_product_party\/\">Listen to the story<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to tell Laurie about this NPR story tonight but I think my typical opening, &#8220;I heard this story on NPR today&#8230;&#8221; turned her off. So I ended up not telling her. Yeah that will learn her &#8211; I&#8217;ll just post it on my blog instead \ud83d\ude09 Anyways, Marketplace reported this morning on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/theres-a-reason-its-a-product-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There&#8217;s a reason it&#8217;s a product &#8216;party&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[104,74,102,103],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-newsandpop","tag-marketplace","tag-npr","tag-product-party","tag-tupperware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Md","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10923,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/10923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}