As a candle maker, it’s always hard to determine when to offer hand made candles at a lowered sale price. Sometimes a richly fragrant candle that is hand made just doesn’t sell. Candle makers should consider lowering the price of a highly fragranced candle, during these hard to sell times. These tough times could be changes in the weather, caused by good old Mother Nature, lowered budget changes, or yes even simple mistakes which humans will make when handcrafting candles with fantastic fragrances.
Hand made candle makers can look at this dilemma in two ways.
1. There is the negative way which a candle maker would say, “I am a failure and no one enjoys my richly fragrant hand crafted candles. I am going to lower the cost just to rid myself of them.”
2. Or… the positive way. “I am hand crafting my fascinating candles rich in fragrance at a lowered sale price because this is just a change not a problem at all.”
Hand made candle makers should always consider using the positive route when lowering sale prices. This can be done through having any kind of wonderful sale; shipping for free, discounting candles, offering coupons to friends or try, buy one and get one free. Lowering candle prices is a way to get interested candle lovers to notice the hard work you put into your hand crafted candles rich in fragrance.
Making fragrant candles by hand is an exciting skill which can be done right.
Make sure to oversee every candle that is hand made by you. Take the time to hand craft your hand made candles right the first time. Candle makers who hand craft candles by hand, take pride knowing that others will enjoy the fascinating and alluring fragrances coming from their candles. Candle makers are actually handcrafting candles by hand to be enjoyed by someone else. Candle makers who make candles by hand should think of candle making as a very exciting craft. As a candle maker you can oversee every candle that is hand made by you. Hand crafting candles which are highly fragranced, doesn’t mean they have to be fancy candles. Take pride knowing that hand made candles, hand crafted in high fragrance just need to be enjoyed. There will always be a wonderful season for experiencing personalized candles high in fragrance.
by: Lori Makin
Tags: Hand crafting candles, highly fragranced candle, personalized candles, richly fragrant candle
April 5th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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