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Why
You Must Have A Soap Catalog
No matter where you sell your products you must
have a catalog! Why's that you ask!
Here's why! The hardest thing a business does is
get a new customer.
Finding new customers takes lots of time, energy and money. That's true
even for a tiny little home-based soap business. But once you have a
customer, they can be worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
A customer is worth way more than what you make off one
sale. After all, soap is a consumable product.
Where A Soap Catalog Comes In
How's
that? Why follow-up sales of course. Soap is like an annuity. Soap
sales could generate sales for years to the same person. If you truly
build a superior
product, many people will reorder and reorder, just like clockwork. You
simply must give these people an easy way to order, that's your
catalog. Now catalogs cost money so you don't give them to just anyone,
but for sure your customers get a catalog.
Also remember that when selling soap at craft fairs you
usually can
only sell items
that you crafted yourself. Sales from your home through your catalog
though can contain anything you can find to put in the pages. Can you
think of anything that soap purchasers might like besides soap? Hah!
You can, can't you. In the catalog they go.
Periodically mail out that catalog to your
customer list and wonder of wonders, some of them will send checks
right back to you.
You simply must follow up with your customers.
They want you to.
Seems to me that a part of any soap business plan just
must be a simple catalog. You can make a
great
catalog with Microsoft
Publisher or just use any old word processing software. Write it out
with a pencil and copy it (very 60ish). Whatever you have to do, but
get a catalog.
Certainly
a web site is a marketing tool, but it does not take the place of a
simple catalog. After all, some people really don't spend a lot of time
on the Internet anyway. On top of that, learning how to sell soap online
may be a whole lot bigger task than you may think...
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