Candle Making Craft 4u

Candle making is such fun and so inventive with all the colors scents and various shapes you can make.  Many people will use all sorts of candle moulds to make their candles even more interesting.   If you have a candle making home business you may be pushed for time to get too inventive with your candle making, but during times leading up to special occasions during the year it is fun to break out and make a few different ones.

As we know, melting your wax if items don’t sell is so easy.  So much better than cutting up a dress that doesn’t sell, isn’t it?!

There are just so many things you can use:

• all sorts of moulds from the kitchen
• items from the garage Read the rest of this entry »

For a home based candle maker to make money selling at craft shows there are a few basics that need to be in place.  I would not display my candles like the ones in the picture. It would look much more attractive if there were half the candles were displayed with some space in between each grouping to show off each group to its maximum.  This display just looks like it has been thrown together to get the candles out of the carrying boxes.

A good burn means repeat business

One of the most important aspects that make selling candes or any craft successful is that it must be of good quality.  As far as candles are concerned the most important thing for repeat business is a good burn to the candle.  This is not an obvious feature to the buyer at the show, but if you want repeat business then a good burn and a good scent throw, if you have scents in the candle, are important.

Candle colors Read the rest of this entry »

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If you have a home candle making business you will find that the internet is a great way to make sales.  There are several ways to do this and I will discuss those, but I just wanted to emphasis that you need to have in place a payment system so that when customers purchase your items they can pay by credit card and you can also have a copy of their email so you can contact them and put them in your database.

A world wide accepted payment method is Paypal.  It won’t cost you have an account but you do pay a small amount when you transact through them.  Set up a Premium Account and that will be all you need for a small home business.

Ways to sell your candles online: Read the rest of this entry »

Any small home business that sells to the public or has the public visit their premises needs to have public liability insurance.  That includes candle making businesses.

Public liability insurance is to cover accidents and also covers faulty products.  For example reasons that a candle would want coverage for:

• a candle maker may make a candle and for some reason a customer has a fire at home and proves that the candle was faulty and that is why there was a fire started
• at a stall where you were selling candles, a customer caught there foot on a trestle leg, tripped and broke a leg Read the rest of this entry »

Creating, Making, Pricing and Selling your homemade candles.

Selling candles is a lovely hobby or business to be involved with – it is arty, full of color and candle fragrances and the whole feeling is one of joy and relaxation.

What more could you ask for?  You want to make some money – Yes?

Pricing your candles and in fact anything that you make at home to sell is a matter of hitting the right price point.

First and foremost

If you are going to set up a homebased business selling candles then do yourself a favor and Read the rest of this entry »

It seems that you have either decided to start a candle making business from home or you are considering doing so.  I just love working from home and have done so for over 12 years now.  I admit I have done several small businesses in finding something that I really love doing and you may find the same thing.

I have always been a believer that you should work at something you enjoy so that when you get up in the morning you just love going to work and most of the time you are a happy person becuase you love your job.  This reflects on your relationships, business and personal, and on your family.  My stress levels sky rocket when I am not happy with my work.  For example, I have held a real estate licence and owned my own office, but I just did not enjoy that at all.  I love deal with real estate but not selling real estate. I love the challenges of it, property investing, renovating and Read the rest of this entry »

When selling any item one very important factor is to make sure that it is displayed well.  It does not matter whether the item is a candle or an item of clothing, no matter how lovely the item is, if it is not display well then the chances of selling it are much less limited.

How to display your candles for selling

Candles are one item that does sell on its own in a lot of cases, especially the bigger ones, so they can be displayed in groupings of style and/or color.  Keep the taller ones further away from the customer and bring down the sizing but in such a way that even the taller ones get a good viewing.  This may mean that you need to prop the back candles up even higher so that they can be seen and admired properly.

Once you have grouped your candles together, use some items like towels, soaps or flowers.   Create a theme with your display.  It may be a seaside theme, a dining theme, a spa bath theme or whatever, but set it up in such a way that you tell your customer that this is the way you could use these candles.

If you do not have a lot of room you just might set up a themed area and have the candles grouped together nearby rather than a large display.

Selling packaged candles

You may decide to sell your candles in sets and to do this they would need to be packaged in groups of say 3’s or 6’s depending on what it is you are selling and on the final retail price.  Do keep Read the rest of this entry »

When running a home business it is imperative that you find something that can be unique to you and with candle making you could specialise in boxed candle sets for a candle making home business.  These are ideal for clients to buy as gifts.

Each home business owner needs to find something that is going to appeal to their customers.  If you are selling your products through a stall or as a wholesaler through a shop front, single candles are great but if you are selling online or in a party plan situation you could find that boxed candles are very popular.

Party Plan selling Read the rest of this entry »

Candle making molds add variety to your candle making home business projects

Starting a candle making home business is not a very expensive one to set up and that is a great plus when starting a new business.  The equipment needed is not expensive, the products are not expensive but where you can run into some expense is the candle making moulds.

In other blogs we have discussed the benefits of doing market research so that you have a good idea what will sell, but when you start out you may need to limit your range and use some very basic molds to start with.

It is possible to buy cheap glasses and use those for moulds and that way you recoup your cost as you sell the candle or you Read the rest of this entry »