subject: Have A Home Business Using Candles As Your Product [print this page] Candle making can be an ideal home business to start if someone does not have a lot of start up cash. Not only is wax cheap, but it can be reused if the first ones don't turn out too well.
Candle making can be a lot of fun and it is always a good idea to start a business with something that you really like doing. You will want to get up and 'go to work' every day and that is fantastic, especially if you are working at home. One of the things that is so much fun with candle making is the fact that when you are working with some of the different designs you don't know how they are going to turn out and seeing the end results can be exhilarating or just a plain straight out laugh. Isn't art wonderful that way?
Making a professional looking product
What is always important if you are hoping to sell your product is the fact that it needs to be very professional looking. This is where learning the right techniques come into play. Once you have learnt the basic methods you can start experiementing on your own.
A professional product not only needs to look good in itself, but it needs to be presented nicely for the client so give consideration to the overall end result when designing your candles.
If you focus on color, fragrance and design you won't go too far wrong. When deciding on your color it would pay to check out the popular designer colors that are being used so that you can make candles to suit. Or if you are making for Christmas you would obviously choose the Christmas colors of white, red, green, gold and silver. In saying that other colors are not popular for Christmas as well like electric blue and mauve.
Selling your candles
There are a lot of options with selling candles and they could be:
- at local markets
- by party plan
- selling to retailers
- selling on the internet on Ebay
- selling on the internet with your own site
Whatever way you choose to sell your product, package it beautifully and make it a 'must buy' product.
Candle making is one of those hobbies that you can easily make the look of your final product so different so easily. You can make very fancy candles with the wax when you know the techniques, or you can make relatively plain candles but imbed petals, leaves and other embellishments to make them attractive. Another idea is to tie raffia around them for an earhty look or even some twine with a little shell of something similar hanging off it. There are endless ideas and techniques to make your candles look unique and special.
Copyright (c) 2009 Kaye Dennan
by: Kaye Dennan
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