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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How To Start Your Own Baby Boutique Continued

Business Cards-

Go to www.vistaprint.com - 250 Business Cards are free ( just pay shipping )
They are not the most blinged out cards, but they work at the beginning! 

Customers !
Your will be shocked to know that this is the easiest part :)
We all have friends and know people with babies, and once they see your little one rocking one of your exclusive headbands, they will be sold. But don't stop there. once you have the customer in your grips, offer them a special deal - " hey i'm not sure if you would be interested in this, but I am offering a deal to anyone who makes me a headband house party. The way it works is as follows. All you have to do is get at least 10 friends to confirm that they will be coming to your house to see my products and i will give you a $ __ credit at my store:) " . Considering that they are in the process of spending money with you and they probably have found a bunch of things they wish they could buy almost everyone says " when can we do it. 

So now there are 11 people who have seen your stuff - 1 - your first customer 10 - of her closest friends. Guess what! every house party leads to at lease 1 more house party if not 10 more- ask everyone who comes in if they would be interested in getting a $__ credit - all they would have to do is make a house party just like this one for you. 

The results are unbelievable - 

Make sure to give everyone at least 3 business cards and tell them to pass them along to their friends :)
Mommies cling together - Its pretty rough having a new baby and the more support the better in other words, every one buying a headband speaks to someone who would buy a headband at least once a day. so never underestimate what one or two extra cards can do!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

How To Start Your Own Baby Boutique

Step One- Your already here .

Once you get that spark in your mind, act on it fast.... free time sadly, never really grows, it dwindles. If you find your self looking for a fun hobby that can bring in some real coin, starting your own baby accessory boutique could be that thing that takes the rest of your free time away :) -Jokes

The great thing about WHAM (work at home mom) businesses is that you get to decide when and how to run your business. So take some time think it through and come up with a certain amount of time that you are willing and able to dedicate to your new baby boutique:)

Ok - so now that all the informal himming and hawing is out of the way-
heres the real step one-

1. Think of a name ( love it )
If your not thinking about how good the name is while your nursing :) its not good enough-
Search google to make sure your not copying anyone 
Search go daddy - www.godaddy.com - ( in case you ever go online with your business)
Buy the .COM from Godaddy ( approx $12 for 1 year) just in case.

2. Products - 
Budget at least $100 for your first purchase ( the basics )
Make sure to get a wide variety of hats headbands flowers and clips
This is where we come in - You can get everything that you could ever possibly want to sell from our site 
www.bandnbowdepot.com
And if you don't see what you want just let us know and we'll hunt for it.
Later on you will establish a market and you'll add things like tutus pettiskirts rompers bloomers and other apparel.