Be A Party Plan Superstar Build a $100,000-A-Year Direct Selling Business from Home

For anyone seeking a new source of income through direct sales, this inspiring hands-on manual explains step by step how to transition from selling to friends and family to building a profitable business.

Whether it’s your first project or your one hundredth, its success depends on your ability to organize, plan, delegate, analyze, and so much more. Now is not the time for complicated theory or advanced concepts. You need the proven, universal underpinnings of real in-the-field project management methodology.

With more than 162,000 copies in print, Fundamentals of Project Management has offered a framework for countless top-flight projects in every conceivable environment. Now you can use the fourth edition of this super-practical reference, with critical updates based on the latest edition of the PMBOK Guide®, to help you plan and execute your project from start to finish.

The new edition of Fundamentals of Project Management includes three completely new chapters on creating the project risk plan; the change control process; and the role of the project manager as leader. Additionally, the book is packed with up-to-the-minute information on:

• Planning projects

• Creating and using a work breakdown structure to plan a project

• Producing a workable schedule

• Project control and evaluation

• Earned Value Analysis (EVA)

• Managing the project team

• Introducing and making project management work in your company

• And more.

Each of the fourteen accessible and clearly arranged chapters features enlightening examples and instructive, challenging exercises, the answers to which combine to form a valuable do’s-and-don’ts list applicable to all your current and future project endeavors.

Clear and down-to-earth, Fundamentals of Project Management explains how to effectively spearhead and manage every stage of a project—from developing mission goals and objectives to directing the project team—and how to make project management an indispensable profit-driver in your organization.

JOSEPH HEAGNEY has been President of QMA International LLC since 2001. Prior to that, he was with the American Management Association, where he oversaw various AMA seminar lines before transitioning to the project management product line. He eventually became Group Program Manager for the Center for Management Development in New York, then Global Practice Leader, Project Management Best Practices. He is an adjunct graduate and undergraduate instructor with City University of New York and the Dowling Institute/Dowling College.

The “party plan” model of direct selling introducing products through home parties, social gatherings, and fund raisers has been the route to financial freedom for millions. This inspiring, hands on manual, written by an author who has achieved unprecedented success herself, shows other women how they can generate more bookings, more sales, and more business leads at their parties, as well as build a team of independent party planners, and drive up their own commissions.

Exemplified by powerhouse brands like Tupperware, Pampered Chef, and Mary Kay, the party-planning method is an unparalleled opportunity for anyone to live the life they dream about and deserve. In Be a Party Plan Superstar, readers will discover, step-by-step, how they can transition from selling to friends and family to building a profitable business, develop a who’s-who customer base, create an environment of fun, be an engaging host, and close sales effortlessly. This is the one book that shows women how to become direct-selling superstars…simply by being the life of the party.