You can succeed when starting a soap business if you follow certain proven principles. The soap business includes manufacturing products as well as selling them. Getting started right costs just a little and can be dome quite quickly. Here are 5 tips based on our experience that makes success more certain.

1. Produce quality first.

Don’t worry about how long it takes you to make beautiful soap. Make soap and give it away until you feel comfortable that you can consistently make superior soap. Making soap is a fairly simple process, but it takes experience to make really fine soap. You can perfect the craft for years, but you can make great soap after just practicing for a short time. But take as long as you need. Your future business depends on the quality of the soap you make.

2. Sell at retail price first.

A ready market exists for handmade soap. Get in the right places and you can move lots of product in a short time. Watch out though. There is a ready demand for soap from people who wish to resell it too. Don’t be lured into selling your carefully crafted products at a bargain basement price. Know you costs before you venture into the wholesale arena. Otherwise you likely will work for nothing. Better to do nothing for nothing than something for nothing.

3. Get a customer fast.

Getting new customers is vital to any kind of business. Getting a customer almost always costs time and money. If possible, try to get somewhere so you contact many potential buyers in a short time frame. That way you can move much product quickly. Selling soap door to door, for example, is a disaster. The profit in a bar of soap is just too small for that. That’s why you need to sell in quantity by getting where lots of buyers are.

4. Make it easy to reorder.

Once you are blessed with buyers, then the easy part starts. The easy part is selling more to people who already love what they have tried. Just a simple brochure or a little homemade catalog has been the beginning of many a fortune. Follow up with customers for easy sales.

5. Offers to customers work for you.

Another income stream may be as close as your mailbox. Mailing an offer just to customers becomes a low risk income stream. Mail order in general is very risky because the response rate is so low. However the response rate to a mailing to satisfied customers can be very high and very profitable. Plus, with just a few touches, you may be amazed at the size of orders from existing customers.

Starting a soap business can be accomplished quickly and at just a small cost. You must first produce superior products and then get them in front of the right people. Once you make sales the easier part starts. Selling more to people who have already tried what you have is the real way to a home-based business.

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