It is possible to start a soap business from your home with a minimum of trouble. A soap business plan must address how to develop the product and then how to sell it. This is one way to get going fast if you want to sell soap!

1. A Soap Business Plan That Really Works
A soap business plan is easy for a small scale business start-up. If you
just want to turn your hobby soap making into a business, that's a great
way to make some profits. There is a big difference in making soap as a
hobby and marketing soap for profit.
The real plus is that a soap business requires so little investment to
start that there's almost no risk of losing much. Now if you choose to
build a factory and start big, good luck. Even if you wish to grow a
large soap business, why not start small and learn?
Start by learning to make high quality soap. Learn what you like
yourself by trying many different products. Buy lots of soap as market
research. You'll quickly see what other soap makers are doing. How does
the soap work? Does it feel creamy or drying? Does it really last well
or just melt away? Is it well cured? Do you like the scents? The colors?
How about the packaging? Did you get any marketing materials? Learn
anything there?
Now make a lot of soap.
Try it out.
Give it away.
Try different methods for molding the soap. Try different scents. Does
it take much more scent to get a good smell than the books say? Try to
develop your own unique soap. Make soap that's unlike your competition
so your customers come right back to you. Consider making soap scented
just with natural scents. Maybe you can use organic ingredients. Or make
milk soap. Use regional themes. In some way make your soap designs
unique to you.
Know how much your products cost to make.
You already know about how much it will sell for since you've already
bought soap.
How much do all the ingredients in a bar of soap cost and how much would
you save if you ordered in larger quantities? If you really want to make
money with your soap, you must know the cost of each bar. Find out early
in your planning.
Now how can you sell soap?
There are dozens of ways. One of the best is to sell at craft shows or
other events like fairs or farmers' markets. Get yourself somewhere that
many people are shopping and buying. That way you can sell a lot of
products quickly and don't have to drive around all over the place
making presentations. Now here's the trick.
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2. The real key to a good soap business plan is selling to your customers.
The people who buy at a craft show will buy again if you sell a great
product.
Keep a customer list and mail a little catalog to your customers and
they will send you money in the mail or they will order from a website.
Make sure every customer can contact you to reorder and get as many
customer contact addresses as you can. That's the way to build a real
business.
A soap business plan is a quick way to turn hobby soap making into a
money maker. There are several tricks to getting started, but there's
little risk since it costs so little to get started.
Interested in starting a soap business? Need more soap business plan
ideas? Visit our website at http://www.soapbizkit.com to get started
fast. Selling soap can be fun as well as profitable.
Check out our soap articles at http://www.soapbizkit.com/soap-making-
business-articles.html as well.
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