I am starting a scrapbooking designer business, and I need help with the payment. Can you help?
I want the customer to give me money to buy their materials. How could I say this in a polite or business way?
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Charge for all materials first and foremost, add in sales taxes if applicable and my gas mileage to collect the supplies.
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just say customer must pay for materials…be direct customers do not like hidden costs
Make a flyer out of sequins and buttons and scraps that defines your interest of scrapbook making. If you make them, they choose the materials they want, so you will have to have a sample sheet of what various things you have for boarders, themes, etc. You won’t get too many people that want you to be in charge of what they want, simply because they all want to get and make their own and sell to somebody else. So this leaves a limited market already, But you can improvise and study selling techniques so that you can make a sales pitch to someone to have you attend their birthday party, family reunion, or women’s picnic, and demonstrate how you can add their event into a memorable scrapbook.
Have them autograph the book so someone will be sure to buy it from your auction of it. You will need to save a weeks worth of pay to get a digital camera or used polaroid so you can take pictures and print them adding them to the scrap book. Like photo stores, they take pictures that you can choose from and the ones you don’t stay in their property for a year or so in case you want to buy later. You need to have a few guideline forms first before you agree to attend the small outdoor party as entertainment, so that these small rules are understood as entertainment and in fun.
You wil also need a series of trademark outfits that are you as a scrapbook entertainer. Maybe along the lines of this idea: http://www.siamese-dream.com/page/siam1/CTGY/Clothing-Asian-Indian
You could offer to do a wedding as the item for the money tree. Auction off the book there for the bride and grooms money tree and you get a set percentage of 80/20 split. You could take your own picture of the bride and grooms wedding prep, their bachlorette parties, of their home, their childhood school, and you could ask for a couple pictures of them when they were younger, etc.
This way you get to identify your product, your guidelines, and get to be a paparazzi to a bride and groom, simply learning as you go along. What bride and groom would not like to feel that important?
Try it out.
I would provide samples of layouts you have created. I would price your pages based on “basic” layout, “basic Plus” which has a little embellishment, and “Premium” which has more intricate details and embellishments. You should carry certain products as a standard. If you buy them in bulk, you can charge less for their use.
I would recommend a company that has standard prices, like Top Line Creations. You can sign up fpr a 25% discount (or more) on supplies by spending just $25 every 6 months. They have lots of ribbons, papers, gems, pens, etc. You can choose a few companies that you order from for supplies and then let the customer pick what they want. But, honestly, I think it would benefit you more (and cost you less in materials) to have standard layouts that you provide that customers can pick from. They can always change the colors and what-not, but the layout choices are basically the same.