How to Make Money Selling Gift Baskets

Selling gift baskets is a great way to make money from home. Gift baskets are always popular and there are endless holidays, events and occassions that can be celebrated with a creative gift basket. You can make them large or small to fit every budget. If you are creative, why not give gift baskets a try as a work at home opportunity.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Desire to work from home
• Gift basket materials
• Website
• Phone
• Business Cards
• Digital Camera
• Brochures

1. Create several gift baskets that can illustrate your creativity and variety. Take many photos of each of your gift baskets. Display them with very little background distractions. Light boxes are nice to use.

2. Get word of mouth advertising to work for you as soon as possible. Consider donating some gift baskets to fundraisers, giving them away to people/organizations that will likely display them publicly such as doctors, hairdressers and even your computer repair shop. Bring some to your local craft fairs as well. Be certain your business card is attached to each of these baskets.

3. Call various businesses at key times of the year and ask if they would be interested in purchasing some gift baskets for their employees at a discount. You should offer to bring in some samples to show them in person. This is when it's nice to have some brochures to leave with them. This way, have a point of reference to stir their memory of your work and they can call upon you later.

4. Advertise your gift baskets by passing out business cards and brochures as well as taking out newspaper ads, advertising on restaurant placemats and in trade publications.

5. Build a website to showcase your gift baskets. You could even opt to take online orders and ship your gift baskets. In some cases, this could end up resulting in over 50% of your orders so invest wisely in a quality website. Do not use free servers that plaque your visitors with adverts that aren't your own. It's very unprofessional. Hire a webmaster who is well versed in SEO and traffic generation.

Tips & Warnings

• Avoid using perishable items in your gift baskets. Even chocolate goes bad after some time so only use them if you have an order to be filled and not for a gift basket that will be stored in hopes of selling.

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[FrazzledNanny]

on 3/27/2009 Great idea on making and selling gift baskets. I do these up for door prizes all the time. I should start selling them. 5*

[SharonJeanne]

on 1/8/2009 Gift baskets are one of the nicest gifst there is, what a great idea.

[Gracie1402]

on 12/16/2008 I love gift baskets (giving and getting them!)

[yessharon]

on 12/8/2008 Excellent idea for someone who wants to work from home. Thanks for sharing.

[dalejr88fan]

on 12/7/2008 I like these ideas, and I love gift baskets!!