Can You Make Money Selling Hand Made Soap Online

If you make soap, you may ask yourself, "Can you make money selling hand made soap online?" I will attempted to give you a few thoughts in regards to this endeavor.
First, do you know how to create a website and manage the website yourself? Website design is costly. If you do not have knowledge in this area, you could spend all of your profits creating, maintaining, and running the website (unless you have a huge volume of sales). I have heard many many individuals say they love their websites, but they do not make any money on it.
Do you know how to draw customers to your website. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of competing websites out there. How will people find you? Believe it or not.....you have to work daily on finding ways to draw people to your website. And you have to know how to capture these people to bring them back to your website. This takes consistant work. Some ways to draw people to your website include:
Linking to other websites and having backward links with your keywords embedded in the link on their websites.
Listing your website in directories (again with backward links to your website with your key words embedded inthe link)
Writing articles for free newletter article directories that contain your website backward link
paying for advertising (like pay-for-click)
paying for directory listings
This is the tip of the iceberg. If you have the desire, time, and knowledge to promote your website, then selling online is probably a good idea.
Can you afford to sell your soap at a price that will bring in customers and create repeat customers? Soap is very heavy, so it not easy to price your soap at a price people are wanting to pay and then add shipping on top of that. Are you willing to work for less profit if your soap doesn't sell at the price you normally sell it at?
One last thought. Many people have something they want to sell, so they decide they want to sell it on line. But the real question is......"What do people want to buy? Selling something you want to sell is like putting the cart in front of the horse. Why not sell what people want? So the long and short of it is.......Can you make money selling hand made soap online? .....The answer is.......Is there a demand for it? If you can find a niche that is currently not being satisfied, you can do great. But...... you have to offer something people are looking for. Maybe it is a specialty organic baby soap, or a bug repellent soap, or an ordor reducing soap, or something else. It just needs to be something that people want, that no one else (or very few people) are selling.
I hope that helps answer your question "Can you make money selling hand made soap online?"
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