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Marketing Your Soap for Profit
By:John Savage
There are many ways to market your soaps and homemade
bath products. I have found that giving free samples
is one of the best methods for getting new customers for my soaps.
You can cut 16 samples from one basic 4 oz. bar of
soap by cutting the bar into 8 pieces, then cutting those pieces in half.
Next, place a piece of the soap in a small craft
Ziploc bag, (you can get these at Wal Mart in the Crafts section) and label it with your business information using regular Avery mailing labels.
To distribute your samples, place them in attractive
baskets and visit a few non competing stores to see if
they will allow you to leave your baskets on their counters.
You can also staple these to your business cards, and
pass them out as you normally would a business card.
Yet another method I have found to be very effective is to make what are called fish bowls and leave these
at area businesses. To make a fish bowl, first print
out some cards for customers information such as name, address and phone number. Next, purchase a few containers that are clear, and that have a secure lid and which are about the size of a regular fish bowl.
Some people actually use fish bowls, but I
have found this causes problems because the fish bowls break easily, and cannot be closed to prevent theft of your customers information.
Now take the lid of your container, cut a slot which is big enough for your slips of paper that you
printed off earlier to slip into when they are folded in half. Secure your lid onto your container with tape and then cover the tape with attractive ribbon.
Next, make a sign stating that anyone that enters your
drawing for a free whatever, will receive a free soap
sample in the mail. The whatever can be a gift
certificate from the store that lets you place your fish bowls on their counters (this helps
promote the store, thus making the store owner more
agreeable to letting you use their counter space), or
it can be a few bars of soap from your inventory or indeed it can be both.
Next, locate stores that do not mind sharing some of
their counter space with you. This is where you will place your fish bowls.
Although this method costs a bit more because you are
offering a prize, and because you will need to mail
your samples, it also produces better results than by just handing out samples.
You will get potential customers addresses and phone
numbers, and when you mail your sample you can also
include information about your products, and you can also send them a follow up mailing asking for their
input on how well they liked your sample. This
information can be very valuable towards the growth of your business.
You can also package samples of your bath salts and
scrubs in the small zip lock bags as well, and use these instead if you do not make soap.
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