If you are interested in starting a home-based gift basket business, this is the way to get started today!
Instructions
1. The first step to starting your business will be determining who you will market your services to. The easiest place to start with this is Real Estate Agents. These agents are constantly looking for ways to thank their clients for choosing them to assist in the purchasing/selling of their property.
Real Estate Agents alone could keep you very busy in your new gift basket business. The best way to get ready before approaching agents is to get a few basic packages laid out with different price ranges. I would start with your lowest package around $25 and gradually move up from there.
2. Finding products. There are several options for finding products to put gift baskets together.
The first would be to set-up individual accounts gift basket items distributors. This process takes a lot of time and research to do. First you must locate a basket distributor, then distributors for all the different products, etc, etc. and could take you days, maybe weeks to get ready to market your services.
3. I like to do things the easy way, so I can start making money as soon as possible. So the second option would be to use an online gift basket company that you could purchase ready-made baskets from and resell at higher prices. This works great for two reasons. The first is now all of your products can be found and purchased at one place; and second, this will give you packages (with pictures from their site) to show your agents and let them choose from.
This will save you so much time and frustration! There are several online companies that you can choose from. Giftree (link in resource box, bottom of page) is a great option because they have really nice basket packages to choose from and they have low prices that you could easily mark up for a good profit.
Then there is DIY Gift Baskets (link in resource box, bottom of page), this company offers many options so you can pick and choose your baskets and items to go in baskets, still giving you a one-stop shop.
4. Once you determine which company you would like to use, that's it, you can be ready for business in ONE DAY! Collect pictures and information from the company to present to your clients (real estate agents).
Be sure to check approximate time for shipping and shipping costs as well to make sure you can deliver when needed and make enough money for all of your work. If you forget to add shipping charges into you overall cost, you could lose money!
