Sell Cheese Gift Baskets From Home
You can build a home business with only a small investment by creating and selling cheese gift baskets. Many organizations use these baskets in promotions and individuals use them as gifts for a variety of holidays and occasions.
Instructions
1. Determine what types of cheese you can sell in your gift baskets. You can offer imported cheeses, cheese balls, boxed or gift wrapped packaged cheeses. Consider non-refrigerated cheeses instead of refrigerated ones.
2. Assess the source and packaging options for your gift-basket cheeses. You may not want to buy cheese in bulk and then cut and wrap the pieces in plastic. You can purchase pre-packaged cheeses and add them to your baskets to sell along with other products.
3. Create varieties of baskets with cheeses, nuts, crackers, and display them by taking photos. Determine what it costs you to create each basket and double your cost when you sell your basket.
4. Publish your gift basket photos with prices. Use email, fax, web ite, regular mail, flyers, brochures, cards, ads in the local newspaper and word of mouth to provide contact and ordering information such as your phone number.
5. Market your baskets to real estate agents as thank-you gifts for customers who just purchased a home. Homemade cheese baskets are the perfect gifts for such occasions. Contact the managers of gift shops at local hospitals, and ask if you can sell your gift baskets on consignment. Tell everyone you know that you sell cheese gift baskets. Bring them small, free sample baskets to promote sales. Give everyone your contact and ordering information.
6. Consider marketing cheese baskets for specialty groups, such as Weight Watchers, Atkins and South Beach and create baskets that support the various diets.
7. Create baskets specific to the upcoming holiday. A Christmas basket might be decorated with pine cones, miseltoes and green and red ribbons and could contained mulled spices for wine and cider to warm a cold December night. A Fourth of July basket should come in red, white and blue and might contain light, spreadable cheeses and packages of powdered lemonade.
8. Rent a table at a farmer's market or a kiosk at the mall. Provide free samples, and small, inexpensive cheese gift baskets (preferably $10.00 or under) to sell. Display small baskets with prices that anyone could afford, and your higher-end baskets. Rent spaces around the holidays and market your baskets as gifts.
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