My soap business 2016

I am so pleased how my soap business has taken off. I mean – who would have guessed that I’d be so busy with it? For sure not me! 

But what a great thing to happen. I had tons of soap to sell in the beginning of December, and around 2 weeks before Christmas I was sold out. 

Now is this a good business practice? nope. But without knowing what would happen at Christmas time, I had literally no clue what to expect. But next year? You bet your boots I’m going to be ready!! 

I mean if there is a demand, as a business you should be filling that order. But I had no idea that I was going to sell a couple of hundred bars of soap in the first two weeks of December and I literally went into my secret stash of soap to fill some of the orders. Finally I had to turn people away. Yup, I have a lot to learn about owning a business!

So I figured if I made 72 batches of soap in the next month or so, I would be somewhat out of the ditch that I’ve dug and it should be smoother sailing. Well that’s the plan anyway 🙂 

Now one of the changes that I’m going to do with my business is to introduce a Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter line. That would mean that I would have 6 ‘regular’ soaps that I would sell all year long – Morning Sunrise, Barefoot in the Grass, Sassy Come Home, Squeaky Windmill, Fancy Chicks, Lazy Lavender. These are my best sellers and I always sell out of them really fast. And then now all I have to do is to figure out what my Spring Line will be. I’m pretty juiced about this new way of how I’m going to do my business and I’m thinking it’ll be a lot easier to manage.