Goals, Pricing

4 Growth Areas to Focus on in 2020

Growing an artisan product business is exciting, but it can be a long and lonely road. Too often, the enthusiasm you had when you launched faded as you learned a few tough lessons. To start, selling beyond your friends and family isn’t easy to figure out. It is wonderful that the people in your life support your business, but at…

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Pricing

The Flaws in Paying Yourself Hourly

There are several ways that soap & bath product makers determine pricing for their products. One of them involves taking the cost of supplies, adding in an hourly rate cost (based on how long it takes to produce a product) and multiplying that by 2 or 3. This is FLAWED, and I caution you from using this method from determining…

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