How to Sell Your Soap at Craft Shows

When you start falling in love with soap making, you’re going to find yourself making
lots and lots and lots of soap. More soap than you need for an entire year. Next thing you
know, you start giving out soap to all your family and friends until they too have more
soap than they need for a year or until they start giving soap away too. Then you start
donating soap to charity. Then one day, you’ll receive a small gift from one of your co-
workers. You open it and find a bar of soap. But it's one of yours. Now, when that
happens, it's about time you started selling your soap.

Every business has to start somewhere. Most crafts businesses start out small. One of the
most common ways to start selling your soap is by setting up your own booth at a local
crafts fair or show. This is where you can initiate the marketing for your product as well
as establish your roots in the soap making business.

Here are tips you should remember when selling in fairs and shows. Bring enough bars to
sell, but not too much that you’ll end up bringing most of them back home. As a budding
entrepreneur, taking home too many of your products as a tendency to make you feel as if
you didn’t make enough sales, which in turn has a chance to motivate you. You need to
stay positive and motivated. But what if you run out of soap bars to sell? It just means
one thing. Customers are starting to like your product. As a work around instead of
writing hold to whip up on another batch, try asking for their address, phone number or
email address, and take their orders.

Be friendly, develop crafters and soap makers even though they’re competition. From
them, you can ask information about upcoming craft fairs and shows. Also, you can
observe how they sell or market their products and eventually apply them to your
business as well.

Take the time to decorate your booth to attract people’s attention. Always place your best
butt forward. Make sure your booth is clean and orderly. Arrange your products for
display and make sure that their prices or labels are clear. Make sure your best products
are highlighted or are easier to see. Samples, sample, samples, be ready to give them
away. Remember those cute little soap bars you’ve see in hotels? Try making cute little
soaps like those to be used as samples. When someone buys from you, use it as an
opportunity to advertise another one of your soaps by giving him or her, a sample of it.

Start a small but give your customers choices. Try to keep the number of bars you sell
within a certain range, around 10 to 15 per kind of soap. Selling a lot of one soap type,
may give customers impression that the ingredients of those products have been
marginalized which you need to avoid.

Be ready to answer your customer’s questions. Okay, answer your customer’s relevant
questions then. Like what ingredients you use to make soap. Answer them honestly and at
the same time, tell them that all those information can be found on the labels. This is also
a good way of turning their attention to the other prints on the label, your contact
information, website and phone number. Create a customer listing. Ask for your home
address, email address or phone number. With this mailing list, you can send your
customer’s brochures, catalogues, or updates about your products in the future. You can
also take the time to show them your contact information on the label of your soap bar
and you tell them that you accept orders.

Create a brochure or catalogue for your soaps or product line. You can give this to
customers who buy from you. That way, they’ll know what to look forward to or what
else they can choose from, for customers choices are eye candy. This is also another way
for you to showcase your talent as a soap maker. Price your soap bars right. Consider all
the materials you used in making that particular kind of soap. Don’t just consider the
materials you used in creating your soap. Also, take into account, the time and effort you
spent in making them.

Be prepared to accept any kind of payments other than cold hard cash. I'm talking about
credit cards. Most people nowadays used credit cards to make purchases. You don’t want
to miss out of the sale simply because you can't process credit cards. Also, note that those
who use credit cards are those who buy a lot. Thus, get yourself much in credit and bring
your credit card machine

Last but not the least, have fun. Most people tend to loose themselves in a business. You
might get drown away from doing what you really love, creating art. Also, don’t get too
motivated simply because you didn’t get the number of sales you expected to. Look at
your situation in a constructive way. If you go out of your way to accept customer
comments and suggestions, finding out what cost for sales would not be hard. Besides,
there’s always another fair or show to look forward to.

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