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A Review of the CAbi Income Opportunity

Posted by on October 18, 2009 at 8:38 am in Home Based Business
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I had heard of the CAbi clothing company and that they offered a network marketing plan selling their clothing as a home business, so thought I would check it out and write a review on it.

I first wanted to know about Carol Anderson, the designer. She has been designing clothes for over 25 years with her personal touch. She is a designer that pays a lot of attention to the details and unique styling in her line of clothing.

She started in a garage in Burbank CA in 1977. She loved designing clothes and told some of her friends that she wanted to design her own line of clothing. She was then just out of graduate school when she and her friend Jan January put their $800 together and started a workshop in her garage. They believed that their concept would sell. They focused on great fashion, excellent fit and quality.

In 2001 Carol took her clothing line out of the stores and started to market them with a MLM. She is calling her company CAbi (Carol Anderson by Invitation). The company is based in Rancho Dominguez, California. Carol Anderson’s clothing designs are sold exclusively in homes by CAbi Independent Sales Consultants. From the website I was able to gather that CAbi is enabling women the opportunity for women across the country to help them to make a career that will fit any lifestyle.

I could not find anything else on the career opportunity itself other than the consultant will host clothing shows in the homes of her customers. The consultant, from what I have read in my search, does have to come up with quite an investment to get started and it will take about 3 seasons to really start seeing a great profit. She sets up all the clothing in her inventory to allow the women to try them on. It is hard when there are women of so many different sizes and needs to have something for all of them.

There was a blog that I had come across where she had done an interview with a consultant from the company, but the company found out and made her take it off. The blog was very positive and actually was helping and bringing great advertising for the website and their company. But whether it was the company or they not wanting a consultant representing them, we don’t know. Apparently that consultant is no longer with the company.

They have a website but it runs very slow. The website really does not show anything other than a few models in a few outfits. It is done is a flash video form and takes so long to switch pages. There is only a small paragraph on the career opportunity and the main page that talks about Carol, the designer, does not even finish the line at the bottom of the page.

I came across another blog on CAbi that stated about some information regarding the number of associates being limited by zip code. It seems that Carol does not want this to grow too big, maybe to keep her line limited for the smaller market, not the masses.

Sorry to say I don’t have much more information than this. Information is pretty hard to find on the Internet. If this is the company for you, you may want to call the company directly, that may be the only way to find out anymore.

By: Brian Garvin

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Make Money Designing and Selling Baby Clothes

Posted by on September 21, 2009 at 7:37 pm in Home Based Business
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Starting a home-based baby clothes and design and production business is now more attainable than ever. The widespread availability of wholesale children’s clothes, low-cost design software and affordable garment printing solutions have made a home-based children’s clothing business a reality for many.

Affordable Wholesale Baby Clothes
It used to be that a wholesale children’s clothing was only available in huge lots. That is, the buyer had to purchase tens of thousands of dollars of garments, often in the same size and color in order to get wholesale pricing. The orders had to be made months in advance, as the factories were always in Southeast Asia or India. Shipping, customs, import taxes and variable quality meant that the business of selling unique, imprinted children’s cloths was limited to large companies with the resources to deal with the complexities of clothing imports.

Nowadays, there are online wholesale children’s clothes distributors who are willing to sell small lots of baby clothes at near wholesale prices. This has opened up the market for wholesale baby clothes to small and medium-sized clothing designers to obtain reasonable prices on garments.

Low-Cost Design Software
Graphic design, once the domain of a few highly-skilled workers, can now be done by anyone with a decent computer and some basic design software. A mid-level desktop computer and a software suite that allows one to create designs. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are two good choices for producing graphic designs suitable for imprinting on children’s clothing. There are less expensive programs that are also suitable.

Affordable Children’s Clothing Printing
There are several off-the-shelf solutions available for imprinting children’s clothing.

One method is silk screening. This the process that using screens that allow for a image to be imprinted on a garment as ink is pressed through the screen. Silk screen garments can be made in a wide variety of colors and designs. A silk screening setup takes a bit of space and equipment, but the total startup costs can be lessened by buying used equipment or silk screening equipment designed for shorter runs.

Another method is using heat transfers. This involves using an heavy duty iron press and basically melting the image into the fabric. The equipment needed for heat transfers is smaller and less expensive overall. Each design does, however, have to be purchased as a heat transfer sheet.

Starting your own at home baby clothing business can be a great way to supplement a regular income. Or, if you are a talented designer and good marketer, the business can become a full-time business and major source of income. The crucial ingredients are finding affordable wholesale baby clothes, effectively using design software and finding affordable children’s clothing printing.

By: Thane Johnson

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The Koko Bean Shop is a leading seller of wholesale baby clothes. We have a huge selection of baby blanks (clothing with no imprinted design) available in traditional and organic varieties. Baby clothing designers love our the quality of our our clothing and the reasonable wholesale prices we offer. Visit us online at Koko Bean Shop.