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Join the $3 billion gift basket industry and be your own boss.  But don’t do it alone.,  Put the resources of Gift Basket Review Online to work for you,  As with starting any new business, many decisions will have to be made.  Will you work at home or open a warehouse or retail store?  Target corporate markets or serve a retail customer base?  Stick with gourmet foods or branch out with other gift amenities?  Use the methods and techniques developed by Gift Basket Review publisher Debra Paulk, that have become the accepted industry standards to build a better gift basket business.  Due to the flexible nature of starting a gift basket business, this entrepreneurial endeavor has been particularly appealing to women searching for a better work/life balance.  This low-cost, low overhead start-up venture is often started by one person from their home, growing later into a corporate office space, a retail location or a warehouse facility, adding employees as gift basket sales grow.  Many million-dollar gift basket businesses that now operate in huge facilities began as a one-woman business in her basement.  But starting a gift basket business can be a costly venture, if started without good advice, guidance, organization, direction, and a solid business and marketing plan.  You’ll get all the right advice for starting your gift basket business from the gift basket business information, training and support found through the expansive resources of Gift Basket Review Online, The Gift Basket Review Archives, Gift Basket Sharing Circle forum, and the collection of  gift basket videos, books, and Gift Basket Review magazine back-issues.

Whether you are a gift basket industry veteran, a corporate gift business, a gift basket designer or packer,  a new gift basket business start-up, or a creative individual looking for great gifts you can make for friends and business associates, the Learning Library has the resources to improve the way you make gifts, gift baskets, floral arrangements and party decorations, and also improve the profitability of your gift basket business. Gift basket industry professionals and creative individuals who enjoy making gifts for friends and family will devour the informative gift basket books, gift basket design videos and other resources.  Gift basket books and general business and marketing books offer specific, useful tools for building a successful  business.  Business plan development, marketing techniques, sales letters and advertising advice are just some of the topics in the training materials developed by experienced business veterans.  Gift basket industry veterans appreciate the top-notch gift basket videos and DVD ’s hosted by Debra Paulk, founder of Gift Basket Review magazine and leading-edge originator of the gift basket industry’s commonly accepted national standards for gift basket methods and techniques.  Start a gift basket business with the solid advice in the comprehensive gift basket book, “Building A Better Gift Basket Business.”  This business manual includes gift basket building techniques, gift basket themes, and gift basket shrink wrap instructions.  Plus, you’ll learn how to target a market open to gift basket sales, plan corporate and everyday merchandise, package gift basket theme products and write contract letters to prospects interested in buying gift baskets and corporate gifts.  The gift basket video series provides solid ideas that work.  Get all the basics and move on to the more advanced design videos, or train a staff with the basic gift basket videos, choosing a traditional standard lesson with “The 4 Basic Gift Basket Building Methods”, and the newer  DVD, “Starting Out Right Gift Basket Design Basics”, featuring the most streamlined methods for making gift baskets. Learn to make champagne baskets and tall, stacked gift basket towers in “Starting Out Right Advanced Gift Basket Design.”  Build more profitable gift baskets using the speedy techniques and cost-saving ideas in the “Cheaper, Better, Faster” series. Count on the ever-expanding gift basket video series to keep your gift basket business on top of the latest time saving techniques and trends.,  Debra Paulk’s easy to follow step-by-step gift basket instructions save time, money, and help you build a better gift basket business.