dagmar88 said:Good luck; I'm taking a course for small business owners now and have been working on my plan for... almost 2 years.
Only since recently I'm at the stage where I would feel comfortable selling my soap; but I'm still doing a lot of test batches to find out what exactly I want to sell (safety assesment is a bitch) and for all the other products I'm in the research & development stage.
I've visited several stores (and over here the number of soap makers is just starting to rise, the market isn't as saturated as it is in the USA, so I had to travel to different countries) and found out selling just soap isn't going to be profitable in my case.
Soapmaking, research and my businessplan are consuming 60 to 80 hours a week :wink:
Hopefully I'll be done in another two year or so. Which sucks as I already have a free accountant, someone offered me a shop downtown and a lot of employees to choose from :roll: Argggh!
Just wanted to emphasize, this is going to take years rather than months. 8)
IanT said:dagmar88 said:Good luck; I'm taking a course for small business owners now and have been working on my plan for... almost 2 years.
Only since recently I'm at the stage where I would feel comfortable selling my soap; but I'm still doing a lot of test batches to find out what exactly I want to sell (safety assesment is a bitch) and for all the other products I'm in the research & development stage.
I've visited several stores (and over here the number of soap makers is just starting to rise, the market isn't as saturated as it is in the USA, so I had to travel to different countries) and found out selling just soap isn't going to be profitable in my case.
Soapmaking, research and my businessplan are consuming 60 to 80 hours a week :wink:
Hopefully I'll be done in another two year or so. Which sucks as I already have a free accountant, someone offered me a shop downtown and a lot of employees to choose from :roll: Argggh!
Just wanted to emphasize, this is going to take years rather than months. 8)
yeah making a biz plan def showed me that for me right now and the amount of space/supplies/funds i have to work with soapmaking isnt really a profitable venture for me until i can make it in massive quantities like for whole countries like donnie does with his awesome setups lol (envvvvvyyyyyy)
I cant wait to have a 500gal soapmmixer or something crazy like that lol... buy lye by the truckload etc... for now its just a hobby
but a biz plan is essential either way i really wanna take a course in biz... especially since i recently figured out what i wanna do with my life
IanT said:...soapmaking isnt really a profitable venture for me until i can make it in massive quantities like for whole countries like donnie does with his awesome setups lol (envvvvvyyyyyy)
donniej said:IanT said:...soapmaking isnt really a profitable venture for me until i can make it in massive quantities like for whole countries like donnie does with his awesome setups lol (envvvvvyyyyyy)
Making massive quantities of soap is only fun when you can also sell massive quantities of soap :wink:
I do however keep some local churches and homeless shelters well stocked 8)
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