Candle Making Craft 4u

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 »

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.

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How to work out your products for a candle making home business

One problem that all business owners face is to decide on the products that they should produce for a home business.

The larger the business the easier it is in some ways in that there are usually more outlets from which to get rid of slow selling products.

With a home business you are more restricted and also you don’t want to spend a lot of money on something that may be a slow seller or not sell at all.

So how can you test your market? Read the rest of this entry »

For those who would like to earn money in a homebased business and are a little crafty look at this gift basket idea with a difference. You have the choice of also being hands on and making product or you can simply purchase it and sell it on.   This particular one is selling edible products.

Candle Business for making gift baskets

I am not sure about whether you could base a whole business on candle baskets but most definitley it could be part of the business where you are selling things like edible products.  Of course if you were going to mix the two in the same basket then care would need to be taken with scented candles being included.  Special wrapping of the candles would need to be taken care of.

A gift basket business uses many of the creative craft skills of a person and can be a lot of fun.

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