Crucial advice on how to design, promote, and sell gift baskets from a home-based operation. Tips on managing finances, beating the competition, organizing work spaces, and avoiding common pitfalls, along with helpful worksheets, will help turn an amateur into a successful entrepreneur.
Have you dreamed of starting your own gift basket business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive book contains all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow your own business.
Author Shirley George Frazier, a successful home-based gift basket entrepreneur, shares her experience and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving business. She will show you how to develop a business plan, estimate start-up costs, select inventory, price services, and stay profitable. From painless record keeping to helpful hints on designs and savvy marketing techniques, her step-by-step methods are realistic, innovative, and easy to understand.
Whether you want to earn your living making gift baskets for the general public or specializing in custom creations for corporate clients, this guide will put you on the path to building your own home-based business.
Author Shirley George Frazier, a successful home-based gift basket entrepreneur, shares her experience and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving business. She will show you how to develop a business plan, estimate start-up costs, select inventory, price services, and stay profitable. From painless record keeping to helpful hints on designs and savvy marketing techniques, her step-by-step methods are realistic, innovative, and easy to understand.
Whether you want to earn your living making gift baskets for the general public or specializing in custom creations for corporate clients, this guide will put you on the path to building your own home-based business.
Learn All About :
- What It Takes to Be a Gift Basket Professional
- Setting Pricing Policies
- Getting Paid
- Home Office and Workspace Setup
- Taking Your Business Online
- Setting Up a Realistic Schedule
- Appealing to the Ideal Market
- Making Corporate Contacts
- Sample Business Plan
- Customer Profile Form
- Buying Chart for Supplies
- Sample Purchase Order
- Expense Analysis Worksheet
- Sample Invoice Sheet
- Extensive Resource Listing
- Delivery Schedule Form
About the Author
Shirley George Frazier is president of Sweet Survival, gift and gourmet specialists providing a broad range of services to home-based professionals, specialty shops, and department stores, including training industry professionals and others who need guidance to start and grow their business to full potential. Shirley writes for trade publications, conducts business seminars and workshops, has appeared on numerous television and cable programs, speaks at trade shows and conferences throughout the country, and is an associate member of the Gift Basket Professional Network.Product Details
- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: Globe Pequot; 4th edition (November 1, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0762741775
- ISBN-13: 978-0762741779
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches