You too can help to make a difference…

Hatti Trading’s network of Party Plan Agents (PPAs) market its handbags at home parties and other appropriate events.

In Hatti Trading’s catalogue, customers are told that Hatti Trading fosters a “women to women” connection because, “by purchasing a Hatti bag, you are making a difference . . . providing jobs to those girls who no-one else will employ because of their past, helping them to build a future . . . “ We at Hatti Trading hope to carry this same “women to women” ethos into our development and support our Party Plan Agents. We want to enable you to succeed in building a home business which fits with your ethics as well as your schedule.

Join our team and you can ....

• Earn some extra money part time in hours you can fit around your schedule.
• Become part of a friendly group of women having fun meeting people and selling unique, quality handbags.
• Make a difference to disadvantaged and stigmatized women in the Developing world through Fair Trade.
• Received support direct from the Party Plan Co-ordinator at Head Office; this is NOT a multi level marketing scheme.
• Each year, have the opportunity to win a Holiday to Nepal.

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Why Party Plan?

Home parties provide an ideal setting for expanding sales of our products and raising awareness of the plight of victims of human trafficking. Hatti products are attractive, well-made, and reasonably priced. These qualities alone are enough to compel retail customers to purchase. Attendees at Hatti Home Parties are similarly impressed with the products, but home parties also provide a platform to inform potential customers about the mission behind Hatti Trading, introducing an additional incentive to purchase a Hatti Handbag or product. Through the Party Agents’ presentation of the story behind the company, a “women to women” connection is forged between western women purchasing the products and the women who make them.

Home parties have been around for a long time, but in recent years they have been a growing trend in the UK. Whether the items for sale are cosmetics, greeting cards, or kitchen goods, women enjoy and support home parties for many reasons. They provide an opportunity to have a “girls’ night out” with friends and they provide an opportunity to purchase quality products. Many women also like the fact that, when they purchase through home parties rather than conventional retail outlets, they are supporting entrepreneurial women building home-based businesses. Hatti party customers also know that their purchase is supporting women who have suffered extreme hardships, but are taking advantage of the entrepreneurial opportunities offered by Hatti Trading to create a stable, independent, dignified future for themselves.

A recent study of Fair Trade in Europe notes that “Fair Trade has become one of the fastest growing markets in the world.” Hatti Trading is a part of this exciting trend. Its home party scheme, in particular, is positioned to tap into developed networks of ethical minded consumers, and to educate party attendees who are unfamiliar with the growing Fair Trade movement about its merits and potential as well as dispel some of the myths around fair trade products being ‘hippyish’ or poorly made.

Hatti Trading Compared to Other Party Plan Schemes

Hatti Trading’s party plan scheme is similar to that of many other party plans in a number of ways:

• Party agents are recruited and trained by the company, but they remain independent; they are not formally employed by the company.
• Party agents identify party hostesses who agree to invite their friends and associates to parties in their home or another venue arranged by the hostess.
• Party agents follow a company-prescribed format at the parties, providing information about the company and its products and offering the company’s products for sale.
• Products ordered at the party are delivered in a bulk shipment to the party hostess, who in turn distributes the orders to the individual customers.
• As in other home party schemes, Hatti hostesses receive free goods as a thank-you gift.

Hatti Trading’s party plan scheme also differs from other party plans in some significant ways.

• The most significant factor that distinguishes Hatti Trading from other party plan schemes is that Hatti Trading is a socially-conscious, mission-driven company founded to provide viable economic alternatives to human trafficking through Fair Trade. We are not a ‘profit driven’ organization, therefore you can be confident that the results of your effort are for a great reason than just ‘profit’, they are making a positive difference to other disadvantaged women. This is entirely different from the home parties offering cosmetics, kitchen goods, and lingerie.
• Hatti Trading also differs from many other party plan schemes in the way that it recruits, trains, and supports new PPAs. Most other party plans are “multi-level marketing” schemes. In these schemes, existing agents recruit new agents to work “under” them. The recruiting agent orients, trains, motivates and supports the agents on her “team.” In turn, she earns commission on any goods sold by the agents under her. Thus, it is not only the selling agent that receives a commission,-several other levels of agents in the pyramid will also receive a commission on the goods sold by agents under them. This also creates a high pressure sales environment, the individual agents are pressurized and targeted and the party guests are pressured to buy more. While this model may work well for other companies, Hatti Trading has rejected this model on the basis that it seems inconsistent with our Fair Trade ethos.
  
  One way in which Fair Trade companies such as Hatti, provide greater returns to producer groups while still offering high quality products at competitive prices is by cutting out the “middlemen” that clutter the supply chains for most retail products. Hatti Trading directs a greater portion of the price paid by customers to the producers and to the PPA that sells the bags – supporting entrepreneurship and real economic opportunity at both ends of the spectrum—rather than distributing commissions through tiers of “middlewomen.” Instead of having agents trained and managed by more senior agents, Hatti Trading employs a Party Plan Coordinator who recruits and manages all PPAs directly.
• Some Hatti hostesses will be motivated by the opportunity to receive a free handbag, host a fun evening for friends, and provide friends with an opportunity to purchase quality products at affordable prices, just as in many other party plan schemes. However, many Hatti hostesses are already aware of Fair Trade and ethical issues and will also be inspired by the opportunity to spread the word about the tragedy of human trafficking and, at the same time, offer friends a concrete, practical way to help combat this modern form of slavery.
• Hatti Trading PPAs are only required to invest in a set of sample handbags for display at parties. The sample kit bags are provided to PPAs at a much discounted price. If a PPA decides to not to continue with Hatti Trading after trying at least six Hatti Handbag parties, she can return the kit contents in good condition and receive a partial refund. In many other party plan schemes, agents are required to purchase an inventory stock of products that they in turn sell to party attendees. This can require an initial investment by the party agent of several hundred or even thousands of pounds, depending on the price and range of products required to operate a viable home business. Party agents required to invest in stock this way also assume the burden of storing their stock as well as accepting the risk of financial loss for any stock they cannot sell. Thus, the “sunk investment” or potential financial loss risked in starting out as a Hatti Trading PPA is a minimal amount.
• As with most party plan schemes, the hostess receives a gift for agreeing to host a party. However, this hostess gift is provided free by Hatti Trading as a ‘thank you’ for having a party. The Agent is not required to buy the gift out of their commission as they are with most party plan schemes.

If you are interested in joining our team of Party Plan Agents and would like to find out more, without any obligation, please complete the form below.