Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wiff Tieg free january fashion consultant Gini Griffiths shows the personal touch mixing and Matching direct sales with style by Cheryl Arnold Gini Griffiths was so Good at recruiting and training Independent Small businesswomen As fashion consultants for Nygard internationals knit division that she talked her self out of a Job As the company National sales manager and into self employment As a fashion con although she misses the Dayto Day interaction with coworkers and she still Hast recouped her initial investment of for Griffiths says she Doest regret the career As i moved up the company ladder i found myself doing More administration work instead of direct sales which is what i enjoy she i was travelling so much that i was nearing last she quit her Well paying corporate Job and risked it All to become a full time self employed Ned fashion consultant in her new like that of Many peo ple in the is to build her life piece by the Way you furnish a Home or expand an elec tronic system one functional Quality component at a that philosophy spills Over into the clothing she All Cionci Nygard the same clothing she was recruiting other Small business women to she contacts prospective Clien usually on a referral and books 90minute appointments business spirit making things happen with preferably meeting Only one client at a i never work with More than four women during one appointment because i just cant give anyone individual she during the 90 she shows her clients the variety of garments in the Ned line and demonstrates How to mix and match she and her client assess Ward Robe needs and everything is de tailed carefully on a wardrobe custom tailored to those the client can buy As Many or As few even none at All pieces As she wardrobe Griffiths keeps a copy of the wardrobe planner on file for her client and whenever the woman is ready to buy a phone Call is All that necessary to have the item Many of Griffiths customers Are involved in the travel my clientele Are mostly very a updated explains who Sells to real estate teachers and other fashion consultants like hairdressers and makeup Griffiths says she did Excel Lent business in november and even better just before Christ about 10 women per week Griffiths anticipates it will be an other six months before she Dou Bles her current list of customers to 120 from she is about the optimum number of clients that she can actively service without sacrificing the individual attention that the Job Tim Wise there Are Only so Many places i can be at one Griffiths is still recruiting and training other women to handle the line on a Par time or full time because she is no longer working for Nygard she shares commission during the training period with the women she rather than collect a salary or Bonus from she estimates that there Are about 30 women working Selling Nygard knits in the fashions Are not available in any retail Griffiths trained 10 of these women and there Are eight More that she educated in each woman had to invest about for samples in order to enter the but Griffiths feels the investment is recovered fairly now in looking for Rural girls to sell to Rural she i feel its excellent Delfem ploy ment for farm girls and i like to expose them to the idea of being in business for the Only qualification she is a Strong sense of in the office in phone Calls come to in the you have to generate the you have to push harder and you must be on the phone even when you dont feel like have a tremendous fear of failure and i Burn my buns off to avoid its this kind of drive that pre vents her from even when frustration begins to set i get a Little distressed by the Lack of professionalism among certain a lot of them will make appointments and not keep they dont Call to cancel or change the they just dont show what do they want the sales person to do keep hounding them for get them very rewarding Griffiths says her new career is very she is often called upon to address groups As a professional Consul her most recent speaking engagement was with a group of i sell my because there were too Many women in the but i enjoyed the engagement because it is so important to educate seniors to keep updated through Fash Ion Griffiths says she loves to open women eyes and show them color and How to life insurance premiums annual premiums for 10year renewable term face value age 35 nonsmoker female male smoker female male age 40 nonsmoker female male smoker female male age 45 nonsmoker female smoker female male age so nonsmoker female male smoker female male age 55 nonsmoker female male smoker female male source Rica financial group inc x life insurance annual premiums for 10year renewable term face value age 35 nonsmoker female Mala smoker female age 40 nonsmoker female male smoker female age 45 nonsmoker female male smoker female age 50 nonsmoker female male smoker female age 55 nonsmoker female male smoker female i Legal revenge can be costly i want him to i want tier to i want their blood splattered on the in willing to someone arranging a contract with the mafia to have a business associate ribbed out a wife Acci dentally eliminated its a client arranging with his or her lawyer to do a Legal in most business people will not allow their emotional thermostat to go out of Kilter and allow killer instincts of revenge to push their Legal costs through the the same goes for most people want a life after especially if children Are an emotional thermostat gone ber Serk destroys it also destroys the but there Are a few clients who Are consumed with the passion of re and who instruct their Law yers to win at All and the chances Are great that when the Battle is and the lawyers Bill they will rant and so much Money for what reduce the Bill or ill Challenge it in court i who will the courts protect in that situation the client or the Law yer matrimonial dispute Grolier not his real name was involved in a matrimonial Dis the key issues were the Divi Sion of the assets and Cus Tody of the couples two Grolier was consumed by an of there was no Way his wife should get that was in that was even so he instructed his Vancouver Law firm to do everything it could possibly do to make sure his wife didst get the Law firm was completely up Are you sure that what you want custody will be an Uphill and an expensive in the Legal fees could end up being higher than the value of your Grolier refused to Damn the go for the Law firm went for eight Days of eleven Days in lengthy written a Grolier won it Cost him half of the assets his wife was awarded but his messianic Mission was the lawyers presented their for the first Grolier grasped what his Law firm had been business in Law Claire Bernstein trying to Tell him All litigation would be the final Bill came at a tragic Point in Grolier he had lost his and he had been diagnosed As having brain before he Grolier instructed his lawyer to contest the Vancouver Law firms both the registrar and the preme court bought the arguments of the late Grolier these were four of the classic arguments that Are made for reducing a Law yers whether the Bill is for handling a business Law matter or a family Law too much of the time charged had been spent on emotional handhold ing rather than on straight Legal there was nothing that difficult about the Case to warrant hefty the Bill was out of proportion to the amounts when Grolier received the he was no longer in a position to the court of Appeal threw out the judgment of the lower court and sided with the Law firm and its maintain our Bill argue the firm had been a clients ability to pay must be taken into consideration at the time he initiates Legal not when he receives the Grolier had voluntarily incurred the costs after having been fully instructed by his Law firm of All the pay the Bill most lawyers do not have a duty to refuse to proceed with a Case just because they know its going to be too expensive for their clients the court of Appeal or dered the estate of the late Gro Lier to pay the Bill of the Vancouver Law firm practically in its Justice and fair play work both clients have a right to receive Bills from their lawyers which Are just and and its fair and just for lawyers to be paid in full when their clients needlessly run up Legal expenses despite their lawyers recommendations to the workers resent Bosses personal questions Cox news service Washington Nosey Bosses have pried into the personal affairs of nearly eight of every 10 american workers by asking objectionable personal a recent sur vey this poll confirms our worst fears about the state of privacy in the said Linda go executive director of the National Consumers the National Consumers the oldest consumer the United commissioned the study to measure More Subtle but no less alarming ways of employer intrusion while debate is raging Over computer credit records and other issues of privacy in the the whose business is it showed the overwhelming majority of workers believe employ ers have no right to try to alter their lifestyles off the Job or to even ask about their personal Howe 79 per cent of the respondents said they had been asked personal questions that they considered off limits during Job interview Situa americans say employers routinely Snoop into the privacy of Job applicants by asking questions that have no relationship to Job perform said most workers believe Bosses or potential Bosses have no right to ask Job applicants about whom they live whether they plan to have How old their parents what their religion whether they smoke or what their hobbies nearly half the respondents 47 per cent said employers have no right to even ask if a Job applicant is most workers have been asked one or More of these questions during Job the Survey the poll also reveals the vast majority of workers Are adamantly opposed to attempts by employers to Force upon them a company blessed said As far As the workers Are its none of the business who they what they whether they take part in a political demonstration or hold a second it is not illegal to ask the questions that workers found said the phone poll of adults 500 507 women was conducted by ice Survey research group and has a margin of error of plus or minus three per the National con Sumer founded in is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization concerned with marketplace workplace Winnipeg fre press source Rice financial group inc i is on display now kk93700 Jaguar corporate lease returns huge savings Jaguar us Satin beige with beige 1989 Jaguar is of Grey with Grey 1989 ja8uai xes Arctic Blue with Blue 1989 Jaguar Jisc convertible with Grey 6000 1988 Jaguar Sovereign Bur Gundy with beige lease plans ;