With the New Year comes the time to re-evaluate your life and determine what is working and what isn’t. Most of these questions are work related and whether you are getting any satisfaction from your work and whether you have the proper work/life balance. In addition, with the hard economic times, a lot of people are thinking about starting a home based business to supplement their income or replace it. This article discusses how to start a purse party business and become master of your destiny.If you are dissatisfied with your job, starting your own home based business may just be the answer that you need. If you start the right home based business, it will not only allow you to do very well financially in addition to providing job satisfaction, but you will be also able to have the time to spend with your family or on other activities that will enrich your life.Purse parties are one of the most successful home based businesses and are continuing to gain popularity as a great money making opportunity for fashion loving women or men. Most women love their purses and cannot get enough. They are usually looking for the next fabulous purse to add to their collection. This provides a great money making opportunity for purse party consultants.Purse parties are usually held in a home where a group of women come together to not only network and partake in various social activities, but it also provides a great venue to offer for sale various trendy and stylish purses. This relaxed environment makes these parties a great money making opportunity. Purse parties can also be held in an office conference room during a lunch break or various office get-togethers such as bridal or baby showers for colleagues.It is important to have the right suppliers for your purses that you will show at a purse party to ensure that your merchandise is attractive to the women and that you offer great prices that will prompt purchase of the purses by the attendees at these parties. Good quality purses are very important to ensure that your purse party is a resounding success.The lack of pressure in this environment with attractively displayed purses at great prices will usually prompt selling. You should provide plenty of finger food and drinks to ensure that everyone who attends has a great time and is comfortable.This environment will allow the women to peruse the purses at their own leisure. They will be able to feel, hold and try the purses as well as get the opinion of the other women at the purse party. As a purse party consultant, you can include various activities to encourage buying such as holding a mini fashion show, a game to break the ice which may not be necessary since the sight of fabulous purses is usually enough to break the ice and cause the women to go crazy.Holding a successful purse party will provide great word of mouth referrals for you to further grow you business so you need to properly plan each party to ensure that it is a success. You can also use each party you host to recruit an attendee to host the next party in the area by offering them a free purse or a portion of the sales on the purses sold at the party.There are many other ways to advertise your services besides word of mouth. You can use social media such as Facebook and twitter, online press releases some of which may be free, email, craigslist, flyers, etc. The events that could use a purse party are countless and include baby showers, housewarming parties, Christmas parties, bridal showers or bachelorette parties, etc.You will determine how big your business grows by hosting purse parties as well as recruiting purse party hosts in your area that are looking to start their own home based businesses. To start your business, there are various organizations that offer small business loans and also provide a lot of assistance for small business and you may want to consider taking advantage of these various opportunities. They may also offer you assistance with registering your businesses and handling any tax issues. Your local Chamber of Commerce should be able assist you with the details of these various organizations.