New home business

Frappuccino · October 6, 2015, 6:54pm

Re: New home business

thankyou so much for detailed information .very helpful..

Handmade customized things can be a good sell with potential to grow. Any project has a chance of success or failure.

Setting up a facebook page was a great idea and you could easily get sales on that a few years back. Though you’ll still need to have social media presence, if your business model is going to be facebook only, either you’ll need to spend money on the ads to show the content of your page to the fans of the page or you’ll end up getting frustrated for not getting noticed. I’d suggest you to start a facebook group instead as that will allow users to see any post you share in their feed. This suggestion is only good as of Sep 2015. With fb policies changing every now and then, it might not be a long term solution for you.

Secondly, get yourself a twitter, instagram and pinterest account as well. All of that has to be done simultaneously.

I am sure you know your products better but just one thing, making them look good is as important as making them. So take high resolution images of your products and then price them right. Remember, your price is not only the amount you spend on the material but also add some amount for the efforts you put in plus any miscellaneous expenses like transport etc

For pricing, determine what others are charging for same/similar product. Don’t go way off in terms of setting it up too low or too high unless you have a solid reason to do that.

You’ll need to figure out what mode of payment you’ll accept and what timeline you are going to assign. Also you’ll need a system to dispatch those orders. Most home based craft businesses, setup a day in a week when they send out all the parcels. You can choose to send one at a time if that’s not too much of a hassle.