Paulette Wolf started her amazingly successful career as an interior designer. She always had a love for parties and a talent for visualizing spectacular events.

She got her start at a Chicago country club where she attended some of the club’s cocktail parties. Noticing that these cocktail parties lacked flair, she joined the club’s entertainment committee and helped create themed events that became so popular that the McDonald’s owner-operator, a fellow club member, asked her to plan some special events for it’s 20th anniversary.

From there doors opened for Paulette, and she started to manage huge events through an established entertainment production company. She handled all aspects of the events including hiring big names like Jay Leno and Tina Turner. Read more

To succeed as an event planner you have to have a people-person personality, and a person who is detail oriented and extremely organized. You have to be able to make quick decisions and stay calm under pressure. The ability to negotiate well with vendors and businesses is a huge part of being an event planner.

A party planner, or event planner, you are responsible for organizing and coordinating events which could range from a simple wedding or golf tournament to a multi-million dollar function. To become a big time event planner you’ll need to get hired by big companies and associations. But to start out and gain experience you’ll want to do small functions like birthday parties and graduation parties. Read more

Some women are given the god-given talent of making a room look beautiful and inviting.

Do people oooh and aaah in admiration of the way you have decorated your home? If you are one of those women who love to rearrange your furniture, add elements in just the right places, hang pictures and artwork to transform your rooms, you definitely have what it takes to be an interior designer.

Turn this passion into your career.

There have been many successful people who made a great career from interior design. Read about a mom who started out as an interior designer before starting her multi-million dollar company. Read more

Beckey NealHere’s an amazing story of a mother and her daughter who took their passion for making candles and turned it into a million dollar business.

Beckey Neal and Kim Godsey were both working full time jobs when they decided to open a candle shop called Wicks n’ More as a part time business venture. Their love of experimenting with different shapes, sizes, scents and colors resulted in their signature pillar candle that is their trademark product today.

Their small business flourished and within 6 months they netted $30,000. For the next three years they worked hard at both job and business and eventually their sales were great enough that they were able to quit their full time jobs.

Now Wicks n’ More is a wholesale manufacturer and their beautiful candles are sold in more that 3,000 boutiques and gift shops across the country. It has grown into a multi-million dollar company that offers more than 100 different fragrance and color options. Read more

A gift basket business is fairly easy to start from home. And doing a business out of your home comes with many advantages.

You don’t have any of the overhead costs associated with leasing space and you have plenty of tax advantages for operating a business out of your home. Also by being at home you are able to tend to your children at anytime if you have to.

Do you love putting together beautiful arrangements? Do you get lost in the creativity of putting together beautiful things? If you have a talent for making amazing arrangements you may want to think about starting a Gift Basket Business. Read more

Who doesn’t love makeup? Women use it every day, it’s luxury that makes us feel great about ourselves. If feeling good about pampering others seems exciting to you, you may want to consider a career selling cosmetics.

Are you cut out to run a cosmetic business?

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