Home business idea: Gift Basket Designer

Home business idea: Gift Basket Designer

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This kind of business is relatively new. It is great for someone who likes to make other people happy. It takes your wonderful feelings. Just being involved in the process can be fascinating. This business represents itself a specialty service to provide unique and quality baskets that are filled with products that you can be presented as a gift to relatives, friends, shops or business associates. There a re a lot of themes and products which could be used. You will design and create the beautiful baskets for the special recipient. Your business includes design, procurement of product, assembly, order taking and then final shipment of product. Your limit is you imagination.

To be successful at the creating baskets business you need to turn up some of your creative minds into understanding your market and creating series of baskets at a suitable price.

You’ll have to market trends and understand (listen too) your customers. This business can be a seasonal near the holidays such as Christmas and Valentine's Day.You will also need to respond quickly to a client.

A basket designer needs a studio (or a work cabinet). You have to have good lighting and a worktable. You’ll need to have a lot of storage to put into them some of your materials. And, of course, you’ll have to buy materials themselves for the final products. These can be baskets, and some products as food, beauty products, garden items, toys, decors etc.

You will need a computer for placing orders to suppliers and accepting customer orders. Most designers set up online fax ordering.

Read about some marketing tools to your business on our site. And to market your business effectively your customer will need to see your work. You could make an online website, or colourful brochure or fliers.

About money you have to involve in this business. Your computer, software, fax, printer, materials, marketing tools will cost about $1,400+. But remember that it’s depending on which kind of things you’ll buy. This sum could be more or less.

Talking about money you’ll get from this business. A recent survey by the magazine Gift Basket Review reveals the majority of American gift-basket designers in business at least one year boast annual sales of $50,000 or more; approximately 30 percent enjoy sales of at least $100,000 annually.

So, good luck and take care of your business!

Actually, it's really not that new of an idea...I know people that have done this for a few years now.