My Gold Party - Blog

Starting your own business is hard work. From marketing to payroll to replacing the printer toner, everything is on your shoulders. But if you choose your business carefully, you can find your perfect niche in the market – and thrive.

The first step is deciding what business to go into. For some, the business just evolves out of a hobby, like say, making strawberry jam or taking family portraits for friends. In those kinds of cases, you already know WHAT you want to do, you just have to decide HOW to do it.

But for others, the decision to start a business comes from the desire to work for ourselves, be in charge of our own destiny, and challenge ourselves. In this case, the exact nature of the business is yet to be decided. So, how do you decide?

You have to find a niche – and by that I mean finding something that’s unique, so that you don’t have as many competitors, but also something that you have at least a little insider knowledge about.

I married into a family that already owned a jewelry business, so when I found some old gold jewelry I wanted to get rid of, my husband’s family helped me sell it for the best price. And that’s when I realized I could help others do the same.

So, I had the insider knowledge (through the jewelry store), I just needed to find a niche. There are tons of infomercials out there asking you to send your jewelry off without knowing anything about the company buying it. So, I thought, why not make the process friendlier? Why not throw parties where people could have fun with friends and make some money at the same time?

And that’s when My Gold Party was born.

To find your niche, explore all your various connections. Friends, relatives, coworkers, neighbors – you never know where your “insider knowledge” will come from.

Want to make money and have fun at the same time? Why not become an Independent Representative of My Gold Party?

How do you earn money at this home based business? It’s easy — start with your friends and family to have your first party. You pay the customers the day of the party with your own money. My Gold Party will help teach you the process of testing, weighing and paying your customers for their gold on the spot.

Why would people want to sell their gold to you? Your customers benefit by bringing their gold to a safe, secure private party. Plus you test, weigh and pay them right on the spot, no obligation. No waiting for a check in the mail for an unknown amount.

The gold is then sent to My Gold Party to be refined and your results determined. The day we receive your gold, we prepare it, smelt it and email the results to you the next day. We then send you a check or wire transfer the funds.

We created a one-stop shopping business to make it as easy as possible for you to make money in this business. For more information on how to become a representative click here!

My Gold Party is a member in good standings with the Better Business Bureau.

For more information please call 888-44-MY GOLD or email us at info@mygoldparty.com

A new year – A new you!

Looking for a new job opportunity? Ever hear of the term: “telecommuting job?” How about one where you make your own schedule, hand out money and have fun all while you are working?!

Webster’s definition of Telecommute: To do office work at home using a computer.

Your Definition:
-Telecommuting Job: A great way to make money while still being able to be there for your kids, your spouse and your life.
-Telecommuting Job: A great way to finally get control of your life. -Telecommuting Job: A more harmonious, less stressful, healthier way to earn a living while also doing something nice for your neighborhood and your planet.

My Gold Party is looking for people across the US and Canada who are interested in hosting gold parties for their friends and family.

To find out more information on how to become a representative, click here. Please email your questions to: info@mygoldparty.com or call us at 888-44-MYGOLD or 248-723-5570.

We are looking forward to helping you start your telecommuting job today!

Hi everyone!

The holidays are fast approaching and I, for one, could use all the money I could get to help make the burden a little lighter. Sell gold with My Gold Party to help you make ends meet.

It is also the time for fundraisers and donations. This is a good opportunity to use My Gold Party as a way to get donations for your charity or organization that you are or want to help out this holiday season. You can host a party where the guests can bring in their unwanted gold and donate a portion of their proceeds to the organization(s) that you are trying to help.

This can be done in a number of ways. The person selling their gold can donated a portion of their proceeds, a set percentage of their proceeds, or even the entire proceeds from one piece of jewelry. The great part about this is that everyone walks away feeling good. You, as the host, feel good about helping out those in need and so do your guests.

One of the awesome parts about this is that the people walk away with money. They don’t even have to pay anything out of their pocket, the donate, and make money. It’s a pretty cool idea. If you are interested in hosting a party or finding a rep in your area feel free to contact us at info@mygoldparty.com. Any other information you might need you can find on our website.

In light of Thanksgiving we’d like to thank all of our reps and hosts. We are grateful for you. We hope that everyone has a safe, healthful, and happy thanksgiving!

My Gold Party, LLC announces that it has been named “America’s Best Home Based Business.”

My Gold Party will be featured in an upcoming segment of the Art of Living with Marliu Henner as part of the show’s Family Finance series. The company is quickly approaching 100 representatives and contiues to grow.

Birmingham, MI (PRWEB) October 14, 2009 – My Gold Party, LLC announces that it has been named “America’s Best Home Based Business!”
My Gold Party will be featured in an upcoming segment of the Art of Living with Marilu Henner as part of the show’s Family Finance series.

My Gold Party, a Michigan-based company, is quickly approaching 100 representatives! “This is an exciting time for us — to have more bodies on the ground and to be able to give the public an alternative option to mailing in their gold,” says January Thomas, President of My Gold Party. Business men and women alike are becoming independent representatives of My Gold Party either on a part time or full time basis. To apply to become an authorized representative, please click here.

Through in-home gold parties, independent representatives of My Gold Party weigh gold jewelry and other gold items and pay a percentage of the current spot price of gold on the commodities market. A My Gold Party representative arrives at your party equipped with a gold tester, scale and loupe to evaluate each person’s gold. A no-obligation offer is then made on the spot. Think Tupperware-style party without having to actually spend money. Instead, guests who sell gold leave with money and the party host and My Gold Party representative receive a percentage of the total gold sales. After the party, My Gold Party melts the gold and handles the bulk sale of gold to brokers. Party goers see the parties as a safe, convenient way to sell their old gold. Why not get some money for something that was sitting in a drawer collecting dust?

About nine years ago, gold was approximately $300 an ounce. As of October 6, 2009, gold has climbed to an all-time high hitting over $1,040 an ounce and seems to be steadily on the rise, which is good news for people looking to cash in those old (dusty) treasures! Individuals are generating extra cash by selling their gold at a My Gold Party home party or other My Gold Party event.

There are three main aspects to Thomas’ business. The first is attracting new people to join the company. The second focuses on pairing the public with a My Gold Party independent representative to schedule a home gold party. The representative evaluates each person’s gold and a no-obligation offer is made on the spot. And last, but not least, My Gold Party offers a place where individuals can mail in their gold. Once the gold has been received, it is tested and weighed. A quote is then sent via email where the individual customer can accept the amount of the quote or simply have their gold returned.

Whether you’re a My Gold Party independent representative, a party host or a party goer, “It’s fun, it’s profitable, it’s you!”

For more information about My Gold Party, LLC, please visit www.mygoldparty.com or call (888) 44-MYGOLD.

Source: (2009). My Gold Party, LLC Named as “America’s Best Home Based Business”. Yahoo! News, Retrieved from http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20091014/bs_prweb/prweb3034584_1

With today’s economy and the ever growing unemployment rate, My Gold Party has taken it as an opportunity to help people out.

My Gold Party is a home based business where independent representatives around the country establish their own business, on their own time, in their own home. As opposed to pawn shops or jewelers, we teach you how to buy gold from your own home and show others how to sell gold.

This is a great opportunity for stay at home moms, people out of work, or those looking to make an extra dollar as well as an opportunity for at home jobs. With My Gold Party you don’t just make an extra dollar. Depending on the size of the gold home party and the amount of jewelry guests bring in you could make anywhere from a few dollars to a few thousand dollars. Obviously the price of gold fluctuates so the pay out varies.

We differentiate ourselves by coming to your home in a comfortable environment where you can invite friends and family and they don’t have to buy a thing. We teach you how to buy gold with a starter kit and all the necessary tools needed to weigh gold, test the karat, etc. We give others an opportunity to sell gold that they no longer want or need. We foresee the industry of “gold parties” becoming a new home party business for people across the world.

Gold parties may have grown national attention during these tough economic times yet they will be around for a long time. Our company will continue to grow through the recruitment and retention of independent reps throughout the country. You can become a representative in your area. New reps now can get an additional 5% pay out on their first two parties. This is limited to those who submit their Registration Agreement on or before September 30, 2009.

Visit us at our website: www.mygoldparty.com. We look forward to working with you!

Los Angeles Times
Saturday, February 21, 2009
By Tiffany Hsu

As prices soar and personal finances sour, Californians are selling off their old 
jewelry to generate extra cash.

Juggling glasses o f white wine and baggies filled with baubles, dozens of women 
descended on a well-appointed Orange County home this week to trade in their old 
golden treasures for hefty checks.

There were earrings from ex-boyfriends, ring settings with missing stones and chain 
bracelets from sorority sisters. One woman brought in her husband’s wedding ring — 
from a previous marriage.

Julia Geivet, 39, had hopes of selling an “embarrassing” Italian horn bauble she had 
owned since eighth grade and a few other small trinkets, which she thought might 
get her $30.

“I figured I’d come get a little money and socialize and chat,” said Geivet, who was 
recently laid off as a manager at Verizon Communications Inc. “It might not come out 
to a lot, but right now, every little bit helps.”

She left with a check for $302.92.

Gold is hot. The precious metal soared $25.70 an ounce Friday to $1,001.80, 
topping the $1,000 mark for the first time in nearly a year. South African 
Krugerrands, American Eagles and other gold coins are in demand as people seek 
safe investment havens in uncertain times.

That has people digging through their drawers and jewelry boxes looking for 
watchbands, cuff links, chains and bracelets that can be sold to jewelers, 
pawnshops and other brokers to be melted down to feed the growing demand for 
gold coins.

The party Geivet attended at the Aliso Viejo home of Mary-Margaret Fincher is a 
twist on the old suburban Tupperware party. Here, however, it’s the guests who do 
the selling.

Erin Stevenson, who organized the party through her group My Gold Party, 
appraised the jewelry with assistant Richard Bartoletti as guests debated whether to 
wear heels or flats during pregnancy.

To test the gold, Stevenson shaved off small flecks with a whirring Dremel tool, 
blanketing the dark wood of the dining table with a luminous sheen. Later, while 
Bartoletti peered through a magnifier attached to his eyeglasses, looking for karat 
stamps on the jewelry, Stevenson weeded out gold impostors with magnets and a 
special acidic gel.

Fincher, 34, said the parties were popular in her hometown of Atlanta. As the host 
she gets 10% of what is paid out — which this night was $4,000. One woman walked 
away with a $1,836.88 check.

She founded her company in April after losing her job as a mortgage account 
executive at Credit Suisse. Business ebbs and flow s with the price of gold; right 
now, she’s booking three parties a week.

Although there’s a strong market for gold itself, there is relatively little demand for 
jewelry. A recent survey by the National Jeweler Network found that 80% of 
merchants reported a sales decline for the last holiday season.

That has jewelers like Josef Shamir of Joe’s Gold and Silver in Beverly Hills doing 
more buying than selling these days. He buys gold in almost any form — tie tacks, 
pendants and even gold teeth.

Last fall, perhaps three customers a day would come into his store to sell gold, 
Shamir said. That’s up to about eight a day now, including an elderly woman who 
Thursday brought in a gold watch, chains, earrings and bejeweled rings. She got a 
check for $813.

“People are looking harder in their drawers for gold,” he said.

Shamir, 52, says he’s paying out about $100,000 a month on the gold he takes in. 
Like Stevenson, he pays about 65% of market value.

About three times a week he takes the gold to an office building in downtown Los 
Angeles’ jewelry district.

Here on the seventh floor, baubles are melted down in NTR Metals’ induction 
furnace and then poured, lavalike, into molds. After being tested to determine the 
quality of the gold, the blocks are sent to the refinery at the company’s Dallas 
headquarters to be purified.

The volume of gold the refinery company is buying is up about 20% from a year 
ago, said David H. Williams, NTR’s presi dent of West Coast operations. Hundreds 
of merchants, including pawnbrokers and jewelers, are crowding waiting rooms with 
gold to be melted.

“The gold price spurs more people into action,” Williams said. “There is a lot of 
material being submitted now because the economy is souring and the need for 
liquidity is enormous right now.”

So far this year, the price of gold has risen by 13%, while the Dow Jones industrial 
average has tumbled 16%.

John March of the Superior Gold Group brokerage in Santa Monica thinks the high 
prices are here to stay.

“After this year, we won’t see gold under $1,000 again,” he said. “There was a time, 
after all, when diamonds were fairly inexpensive.”

But others say the bonanza can’t last forever.

Precious metals, including silver and platinum, are benefiting from the panicky belief 
that “everything else has been destroyed,” said Leonard Kaplan of Prospector 
Asset Management in Evanston, Ill.

Kaplan says the gold market is on its way to becoming another bubble, like 
technology stocks in the late 1990s and housing for much of this decade.

“Is it going to end badly? Yes,” he said. “The question is where — is it $1,200, or 
$1,500, or $1,800?”

For now, however, demand appears to be growing. The U.S. Mint shipped 92,000 
1-ounce American Eagle coins to its dealer network in January, up sharply from 
22,500 in January 2008.

On Cloverfield Boulevard in Santa Monica, Goldline International Inc. caters to 
investors looking to buy thousands of dollars in gold bars or coins such as the 
American Eagle.

Chief Executive Mark Albarian said that until late last year his staff was making 
about 100 sales a day with an average order of about $5,000. Now the firm is 
closing nearly 300 deals daily with an average order of about $13,000, he said.

On Friday, total sales exceeded $5 million, he said.

“A few years ago, the scene was pretty quiet, but business has pretty much tripled,” 
Albarian said. “Most businesses worry these days about not having enough 
customers. Gold businesses worry about running out of product.”

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Oct. 8, 2008 5:30 pm US/Eastern

As is often the case when markets tumble, the price of gold rises.

Right now it’s trading just under $900 an ounce.

Now some people are making cold hard cash by cleaning out their jewelry drawers and having fun at the same time by hosting what’s called a gold party.

“This is not your mama’s tupperware party,” said Amy Barnett, who hosted a gold party for her friends. “The economy is bad right now and this kinda puts a little spin on it.”

Amy’s friends and neighbors brought their old, unwanted jewelry to her home, where among the drinks and hors d’oeuvres, broker Katie Kupferschmid was holding court. “I thought that sounded like a cool idea to do home party where people leave with money rather than spend money, especially now that the market is so bad.”

Kupferschmid determines the karat of the gold, weighs it, and then calculates a price. Miffy Meacham got $462 for several jewelry items.

“It’s great to clean out your drawers and find stuff I haven’t worn in years,” said Mecham, pocketing the cash. Dorothy Peretti got $520 for some pieces she no longer wears because they were given to her by her ex-husband.

All told the women at the party got about $3,000 for their jewelry which Kupferschmid will then sell to a company that melts it down and re-sells it. Barnett gets 10 percent, or about $300 for hosting the party.

Keep in mind that selling your unwanted jewelry at a party will earn you less than you might get selling it directly to a jeweler or gold dealer, since the person who is running the party and the hostess get a cut.

To host a gold party Click Here!

Source: kdka.com
Retreived from the Internet on: Tuesday, June 9, 2009

As the weakening economy causes purse strings to tighten in many parts of the world, consumers are increasingly looking for new ways to earn some extra money. Enter My Gold Party, which facilitates Tupperware-style parties that help guests sell their unused trinkets, cashing in on record gold prices.

Launched earlier this year, My Gold Party sells all the equipment minipreneurs need to host parties in which guests can sell their gold, including a scale, karat tester and book of instructions. Party hosts then invite guests to bring gold coins, watches and jewelry to their party, where they assay and weigh each item to determine its current market worth. The party host pays guests for the items with cash or a cheque, then ships the gold to a refinery, which in turn pays the host—at a rate the host hopes will be higher than paid to the party guests. The gold is then melted down and reused. My Gold Party’s kit for hosts is priced at USD 699.50. (Obviously, scales and karat testers can also be bought from many other suppliers.)

Consumers in hard times have always been able to sell their spare jewelry in pawn shops, but by bringing the process out of the back alley and into the living room, My Gold Party legitimises and updates it with a social and entrepreneurial twist. As the saying goes, there’s gold in them thar hills—both for the consumers who have it and for the minipreneurs who help them sell it. One to bring to cash-strapped hills near you?

Website: www.mygoldparty.com
Contact: info@mygoldparty.com

Spotted by: Bill McMahon

To host a gold party Click Here!

Want to make money and have fun at the same time? Why not become an Independent Representative of My Gold Party?

How do you earn money at this home based business? You network to find people who want to host parties in their home or office. They invite their friends, family and co-workers. (An easy place to start booking parties is with your friends and family)  You pay the customers the day of the party with your own money. My Gold Party will help teach you the process of testing, weighing and paying your customers for their gold on the spot.

Why would people want to sell their gold to you? Your customers benefit by bringing their gold to a safe, secure private party. Plus you test, weigh and pay them right on the spot, no obligation. No waiting for a check in the mail for an unknown amount.

The gold is then sent to My Gold Party to be refined and your results determined. The day we receive your gold, we prepare it, smelt it and the next day email the results to you. We then send you a check or wire transfer the funds.

We created a one-stop shopping business to make it as easy as possible for you to make money in this business.

For more information on how to become a representative click here!