Friday, September 26, 2008

Wedding Gift Basket

Wedding Gift Baskets: Creative Ways Of Giving Gifts

When it comes to personalized wedding gift, the wedding gift basket has always been an all time favorite. Many people prefer to give gift baskets because they are easy to prepare and they can be customized to suit the taste of the recipient. However, since most people nowadays do not have time to create their own wedding gift baskets, a lot of people find it difficult to find time to make their gift baskets and would prefer to have someone else do the dirty work for them. If you are one of those creative and enterprising people who love to make wedding gift baskets, you should grab this business opportunity and start earning a living the creative way.

Getting Started

There are a few things that you should look into if you want to make wedding gift baskets your source of livelihood. First, you need to come up with a good number of wedding gifts basket ideas and make sample baskets using these ideas. Use these sample baskets in marketing your products and services. No, you do not have to rent a space in a store or mall to display your samples. The best way to advertise your products without spending so much money on rents is to post pictures of your sample wedding gift baskets online. If you can afford it, hire a good photographer to take pictures of your wedding gift baskets and a professional website developer to set up your site. A professional photographer can make your products look even more attractive online. Yes, hiring a professional photographer to take pictures of your products will cost you some money but you will be able to recover the cost of hiring the professional photographer after selling some items. The same is also true if you hire a good website developer.

Pricing is another aspect of the business that you should look into before you offer your wedding gift baskets for sale. You need to know how to set the prices of your products. In doing this, consider all the expenses that you incur in creating the wedding gift basket and then put a mark-up on top of the cost. Try to hit the 20-30% mark-up to make your products more affordable. For instance, if your spend $30 in producing the gift basket, you may sell the gift basket for about $39. This price is net of the cost of freight. You can just add the cost of freight on top of the selling price later on.

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