I've been dawdling for a while now on the business side of things - making soap has been more or less a hobby for some time now for me and I only really considered making it a business a few months ago in order to cover growing costs. I've put up a Facebook page and opened an Etsy account (but not done much with it), taken photos, worked on packaging, etc, but I haven't done a ton to really push it along too hardcore.
Then in the last 3 days I got hit with requests. Another local small business asked me to design a small hand soap for them with their company colors (No stinkin' clue what I'm going to do so I'll be racking my brain all week on this one!) and last night I was asked if I would like to sell my soaps in an annual quilt show.
The quilt show has a market they do just once every year and they only allow a limited number of non-quilt makers to sell in the space. To even get to sell your quilts there you have to have won at least ONE first place ribbon in any show in the prior year so it's fairly exclusive. And they get foot traffic of about 1000-1500 during this show.
I'm on the fence however about doing it for this reason - it's in another state. So I'd just be shipping them my product and they'd be handling the sale but I get 80% of all sales made (easy enough to figure that in to my price). It does make me nervous but I'd hate possible burn this bridge if I turned it down and wasn't asked next year. Thoughts/experiences?
Then in the last 3 days I got hit with requests. Another local small business asked me to design a small hand soap for them with their company colors (No stinkin' clue what I'm going to do so I'll be racking my brain all week on this one!) and last night I was asked if I would like to sell my soaps in an annual quilt show.
The quilt show has a market they do just once every year and they only allow a limited number of non-quilt makers to sell in the space. To even get to sell your quilts there you have to have won at least ONE first place ribbon in any show in the prior year so it's fairly exclusive. And they get foot traffic of about 1000-1500 during this show.
I'm on the fence however about doing it for this reason - it's in another state. So I'd just be shipping them my product and they'd be handling the sale but I get 80% of all sales made (easy enough to figure that in to my price). It does make me nervous but I'd hate possible burn this bridge if I turned it down and wasn't asked next year. Thoughts/experiences?