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Summary: Selling cotton candy is profitable because of the low cost of the ingredients. Sell cotton candy at a good price with tips from a party planner in this free video about party accessories.
Stephanie Smith works for Partyland and has been in the party business for many years, throwing parties for herself, friends, holidays and customers. Smith can be reached on the...read more
"Now that you know how to make it, you might want to decide to go into business and make it and then sell it. It's a pretty profitable way to make a buck, and if you think about it, about if you're going to sell a cotton candy cone it's usually about, it takes an ounce to make a cone. One to two ounces, and that will be, come down to about fifty cents per cone cost of just the floss sugar. Now, if you have one of these cones as well, and you, these are come out to about sixteen cents each, so you're out about, you know, what; how much did I say? Fifty cents, plus sixteen, so you've got to make a, you've got to charge at least double that to make enough money to cover your costs, because you've also got the cost of a cotton candy machine rental or if you've bought one. So, just make sure that you're charging enough to make it worth your time, because you've got your labor, and that you don't want to just be giving away. So, go ahead and charge like two dollars or more for a cotton candy cone, because it's the unique item, and you can't get it everywhere. So it's, since it's such a great thing, like just charge enough for it so people know that what they want; they're getting what they want."
eHow Article: Selling Cotton Candy