Intrepid_Chef
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The things one learns being in the media!
I attended a city meeting tonight, where a resident (who happens to be an appointed city councilman) came to the city for a permit for his direct sales business. He sells boxes out of his home, does not meet customers there and told me that he drives many miles just to meet with them where they are and discuss their packaging needs. I was in the man's home. He doesn't have a single box there and apparently does pretty well.
One of the commission members was whining that this could open a "can of worms" but the others were pretty happy that he was coming to them for a permit at all. He'd flown under the radar for some time, until one of his opponents complained after he ended up on council.
As they described his business (no inventory, doing business out of a small office and going on the road) I couldn't help thinking that his business sounds a lot like ours.
In my church, almost everybody sells something — one sells jewelry, I sell PC and others sell phone service and insurance. On my street, my next door neighbor is a district manager for Avon and her sister in law used to live next door to her and sell Avon as well. UPS comes to her door more often than FedEx comes to mine, and neither of us are disturbed by the quick deliveries. Frankly, UPS or FedEx make more deliveries to people who aren't selling anything.
Did any of you get permits from the city, or even know that such a requirement exists? I'll bet you there are NUMEROUS consultants for various low-key direct sales company in this city and the neighboring one who never got a permit for anything — including one guy who sells stuff on E-Bay and can't get a permit from the city because he maintains inventory.
I attended a city meeting tonight, where a resident (who happens to be an appointed city councilman) came to the city for a permit for his direct sales business. He sells boxes out of his home, does not meet customers there and told me that he drives many miles just to meet with them where they are and discuss their packaging needs. I was in the man's home. He doesn't have a single box there and apparently does pretty well.
One of the commission members was whining that this could open a "can of worms" but the others were pretty happy that he was coming to them for a permit at all. He'd flown under the radar for some time, until one of his opponents complained after he ended up on council.
As they described his business (no inventory, doing business out of a small office and going on the road) I couldn't help thinking that his business sounds a lot like ours.
In my church, almost everybody sells something — one sells jewelry, I sell PC and others sell phone service and insurance. On my street, my next door neighbor is a district manager for Avon and her sister in law used to live next door to her and sell Avon as well. UPS comes to her door more often than FedEx comes to mine, and neither of us are disturbed by the quick deliveries. Frankly, UPS or FedEx make more deliveries to people who aren't selling anything.
Did any of you get permits from the city, or even know that such a requirement exists? I'll bet you there are NUMEROUS consultants for various low-key direct sales company in this city and the neighboring one who never got a permit for anything — including one guy who sells stuff on E-Bay and can't get a permit from the city because he maintains inventory.