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Janet Devlin shoots for Guns N’ Roses – The X Factor 2011 Live Show 3 – itv.com/xfactor

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The X Factor: Janet Devlin never shys away from just being herself and that’s what she is in front of an assembled press pack who quiz her about not having “The X Factor”. Staying true to what she believes in, she promises: “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” See more at http://itv.com/xfactor Buy this performance from iTunes: http://bit.ly/pNyFJv

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Gift Basket Business Home Study Course by Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D.

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The Gift Basket Business Home Study Course, available at www.giftbasketbusinessworld.com , is a 7-week course of content, activities, teleseminars, interviews with industry experts, videos and resources to hep you succeed in your gift basket business.

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How to Make Gift Baskets : Gift Container Ideas

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Unique Gift Baskets with a personal touch. Learn tips on using different containers as gift baskets with expert gift giving advice in this free video clip.

Expert: Susan Paxton
Bio: Susan Paxton is the owner and operator of the Hurricane Flower Market in Hurricane, Utah. She has spent many years doing various crafts and flower arranging.
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Become a Gift Basket Consultant and Work From Home!!!

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La Bella Baskets is a new online gift basket and flower business that educates, trains and empowers women to start their own online gift basket and flower business from home. www.labellaconsultants.com for more information. You can also email me directly. labellabaskets.crystal@gmail.com

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Secrets Of Starting A Gift Basket Business From Home

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Secrets Of Starting A Gift Basket Business From Home

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The gift basket business is steadily booming largely because the number of home based businesses is continuously increasing. According to statistics, the industry is worth approximately 3.5 billion dollars a year. Although many traditional flower shops also sell gift baskets and there are many basket shops around the States and Canada, this business is ideally suited as a home-based business. Creating gift baskets is one of the fastest growing types of businesses today that you can start from home. The advantage of starting your business from home is that you can have the freedom to operate as you see fit and design it to flow around your lifestyle and family life. Since the gift baskets will be assembled in and shipped directly out of your home, the space you have and the amount of money you want to make will decide how long you will be able to work out of your home. If you have a large garage to work in versus an 8×10 bedroom, it will make a difference in how much business you will seek out and how long you can remain a home based gift basket business.

To start off your gift basket business from home with a bang, once you have set up your work area, created your marketing tools: your website, your brochures and your business cards; let your creative juices flow to plan a grand opening of your gift basket business from home that will attract everyone`s attention and everyone will know that you are now open for business and eager to make beautiful quality gift baskets for all.

You will get more bang out of your grand opening by positioning it before a major gift basket rush holiday. For example, starting a shop in October would be perfect for a Christmas Rush. Consider your home based business Grand Opening as a gradual process where you will do a series of activities to spark attention in the community.

Kick off the publicity week by sending a press release to all the local media. You need to come up with a newsworthy situation that will be of interest to the media while spreading your name in a positive way. Perhaps you will be visiting people in hospitals and donating holiday gift baskets to bring cheer. Maybe you will be visiting a local old age home to bring gift baskets for the residents who don`t receive any visitors at Christmas…. You get the idea…Use your creativity and come up with something that you would enjoy doing, would be proud of and that will get the word out about your business.

Since you will be in operation out of your home, you probably don`t want swarms of people in your home and don`t necessarily want to have a visit by the mayor and ribbon cutting. But there are other ways to get out into the community and make it your storefront. For starters, I would highly encourage you to be part of your local Chamber of Commerce or local Economic Development Association.

Through the Chamber of Commerce, you will most likely have access to events and occasions such as Business After Five or some other type of members and non-member occasions. There, you can present yourself and your business in motel ballrooms, board rooms or community halls.

Home Shows, Christmas Gift Shows, Flea Markets, Fairs, Home Business Shows, Penny Sales, any kind of local activity that screams community presence….is a perfect occasion to create an attractive display to showcase your goods, show the community what you can do and distribute pamphlets, business cards. This will also allow you to meet countless people and spread the word about your new gift basket business. Bring along an assistant or family member to cut the monotony of being stuck in a gym for 8 hrs and to help you out, especially in moral support.

Demonstrations are another great way to attract a lot of attention to yourself and your business. You can establish yourself as a local expert by doing this at shows, in community halls or in schools. You could do a 30 minute demonstration at a show on how to make a pretty basket for Christmas Gift Giving. Make sure to give out your cards and pamphlets at any event like this..Also make sure to call the media in order to ensure that someone will be there to take a picture. Sooner or later by participating in these type of events, photographers and reporters will be flocking around you and you will be in local newspapers and maybe even local TV and radio programs.

Here are other ideas to get your gift basket business from home off to a remarkable start.

1. Have a contest. People love contests. For Christmas and New Year, you could host a contest that will be well featured in the media. Maybe it will be advertised through a local radio station or through a local newspaper and you will have ballot boxes in many stores around town. Draw a Basket of The Month Package which includes a $40 basket a month for a year. Make sure to have a simultaneous campaign to sell the same monthly basket package where the recipient receives a basket every month for a whole year…whether it be a fruit basket, a fruit and candy basket, a gourmet basket or a health food basket.

2. On your website, you could have a separate contest where you draw a basket a month online so you get people to sign up to your sales and newsletter mailings. Make sure your website is displaying your product line in an attractive manner. Include prices variations of each product in small, medium and large versions of your baskets for increased sales.

3. Place low cost classified ads in your community newspapers, everyone looks at those…or almost.

4. Network with other businesses such as restaurants, hotels, real estate offices, hospitals, schools, daycares, wedding planners and so on, tell them you have gift baskets for any occasion.

5. Distribute pamphlets to local businesses, especially where people will have time on their hand while waiting for their appointment such as at the hairdressers, the doctor`s office, the chiropractors or optometrist.

To find more information on how to start a home based gift basket business check out my Squidoo pages.

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Betty’s Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Cake Recipe

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In this video, Betty demonstrates how to make a Red Velvet Cake. This is an “early” Valentine’s dessert for her husband, Rick. It is a four-layer cake that is chocolate-y and colored with red food coloring. It is a beautiful cake!

Ingredients:

1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened to room temperature
2 1/2 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 cups self-rising flour (If you use plain flour, for each cup of plain flour, add 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder to covert to self-rising flour.)
8 oz. sour cream
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
(2) 1-oz. bottles red food coloring

Beat 1 cup butter at medium speed with electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add 2 1/2 cups sugar, continuing to beat until light and fluffy. Add 6 eggs, one at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. Stir together 3 cups self-rising flour and 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder. Add to butter mixture alternately with 8 oz. sour cream, beating at low speed just until blended. Stir in 2 teaspoons vanilla and (2) 1-oz. bottles red food coloring. Stir until well blended. Divide batter into 4 equal parts, and pour batter into (4) 9-inch cake pans that have been greased and floured. Use 2 racks to bake the 4 layers in a 350 oven for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in each comes out clean. Remove cake pans from oven and set aside and cool to room temperature before frosting. Now, make your Cream Cheese Frosting. You will find an upload for this recipe in bettyskitchen, preceding this upload. Chill the Cream Cheese Frosting, and then assemble your cake. Remove each layer of cake from its pan, one by one, and place them on a nice cake stand. Spread Cream Cheese Frosting between the layers as you assemble your cake. Next, spread Cream Cheese Frosting around the sides of the cake, and finally on top. Swirl the frosting on the top and sides for a nice look. (I put 4 skewers, extending through the layers to make sure the cake would not shift before it had time to set up.) Place the cake in a refrigerator to firm up. This cake takes a lot of space, so you may have to dispense with the skewers or make only a 2-layer cake on a flat cake dish. (I removed a shelf from my refrigerator in order to accomodate the cake, after covering it with plastic wrap.) Keep the cake refrigerated, because the frosting is not meant to sit at room temperature. If you cannot use all of this cake at one time, you may cut it into usable chunks and freeze them. This is a gorgeous cake, and I think you’ll love it! Happy Valentine’s Day to Rick–and to all of you!!! –Betty

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All the Tools You Need for Starting a Gift Basket Business from Home

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Interested in starting your own business, but you don’t know where to begin? Do you have the heart, the passion, and tons of creativity to get a business running? If you’re reading this article from the comfort of your home and on your own personal computer, well you’ve got the first two components to starting your own gift basket business!

The launch of the Internet has made it possible for a stay-at-home mom or stay-at-home dad launch a gift basket business and sell to the entire country. With a quick Google search, there are dozens of sites that allow for easy, do-it-yourself creation of websites. Web hosting is the new means of marketing and managing a business. Web hosting gives millions of people access to your website. The same can be said for email hosting in that a wide range of people can contact you. Both web hosting and email hosting are very cheap, starting from $1.99 a month. Once the web domain and email are set up, it’s time to market your business. Working with Google’s national and local advertising allows you to target broad or narrow down specific gift basket audiences you want to capture in minutes.

Gift baskets are an easy, cheap, and fairly inexpensive way to show someone you care. They come in all different assortments, such as:

Fruit Gift Basket

Wine and Cheese Gift Basket

Gourmet Food Gift Basket

Baby Shower Gift Basket

Bath Soap and Bath Lotion Gift Basket

In essence, the possibilities are endless when it comes to creating a gift basket. All it takes is some creativity and inspiration to design a gift basket that will attract consumers to your website to purchase your unique and special gift basket. But how do you get started? Where do you buy the supplies you need to make a gift basket? Retail stores offer baskets, but at high prices, and do not have the mass quantities available to make your gift baskets. If bought at retail stores, the business you just started would “go out of business”.

Time to think wholesale baskets! Securing wholesale suppliers is the key to success for your business. Working with a trusted wholesaler ensures that you are getting a good deal for your supplies. Wholesalers want to make your business succeed and will help you achieve that success. To find a good wholesaler for baskets, The Lucky Clover Trading Company is the place to go. They have a wide selection and variety of wicker baskets, wicker baskets available for the type of gift you want to put together. Some of the baskets are beautifully hand-woven and are made from willow, bamboo, wood chip, and rattan. Aside from the hand-woven baskets, The Lucky Clover Trading also offers leatherette trays and wire baskets.

In addition, there is no need to go to another wholesaler for gift packing supplies. The Lucky Clover Trading Company makes it easy for your gift basket business to purchase your baskets and supplies all at one place. They also sell (wholesale) shreds and fill to stuff the bottom of the basket and add a decorated and homemade feel; cellophane, ribbons, bows, etc.

Of course, what you want to put in the gift basket is entirely up to you, the new business owner. It is also recommended that you contact a wholesaler that sells items you want to put in your gift basket—this saves time and money, and allows for more dedication to growing and expanding your business. The same goes for packaging materials such as boxes, Styrofoam, and shrink wrap—contact a wholesaler in order to get the best deals.

Once the gift baskets are assembled, packaged and ready to be shipped to your customers, having a reliable shipping carrier is another vital part to your web business. The two biggest carriers in the country are FedEx and UPS. You can also consider USPS (United States Postal Service). Establishing a good business working relationship with either of these carriers ensures timely delivery of your package to the customer and with their help, can make your business successful.

Now, with all of the tools in place: setting up a website, creating an email address, purchasing wholesale Gift Baskets and supplies through The Lucky Clover Trading Co., and having a shipping carrier, get off the couch and get started today! It is rewarding and worthwhile.

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How to Make Gift Baskets : Final Wrapping for Gift Baskets

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Great personal touch for gift giving. Learn how to finish wrapping Gift Baskets with expert gift giving advice in this free video clip.

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How to Make Gift Baskets : Cellophane Wrapping for Gift Baskets

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Great personal touch for gift giving. Learn about using cellophane to wrap Gift Baskets with expert gift giving advice in this free video clip.

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