Start and Run a Profitable Gift Basket Business: Your Step-By-Step Business Plan (Self-Counsel Business) [Paperback]

Mardi Foster-Walker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1995 | Series: Self-Counsel Business

With little more than some working space and a few basket-making items, an ambitious and creative person can cash in on the gift basket boom. The potential for unearthing new markets and finding motivated clients is unlimited in this easy-to-run small business. Includes:
-- Researching the existing market
-- Finding a suitable work space
-- Pricing the gift baskets
-- Creating theme and seasonal baskets
-- Dealing with wholesalers
-- Finding clients
-- Taking advantage of the huge tourism and cruise industry

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Self Counsel Pr (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0889088462
• ISBN-13: 978-0889088467
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,248,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not enough information on Gift Basket business., July 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Start and Run a Profitable Gift Basket Business: Your Step-By-Step Business Plan (Self-Counsel Business) (Paperback)

This book is written for Canadian market on how to start any business.Very few inrmation on gift basket business. The book is very small and it does not address to the the needs of USA market. There is no list of USA or Canadian suppliers. It will need a lot of imprevement in the next edition.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In a word, INCREDIBLE!, December 8, 1997

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This review is from: Start and Run a Profitable Gift Basket Business: Your Step-By-Step Business Plan (Self-Counsel Business) (Paperback)

This book is a step by step process that will show you how to run a gift basket business. It gives you tons of addresses for supplies and shows. It talks about running your business in the US and Canada. There's lots of little things that made it worth buying. Things like tying bows, mass production of you product, wholesale... I can't say enuff!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money for home-based business information., June 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Start and Run a Profitable Gift Basket Business: Your Step-By-Step Business Plan (Self-Counsel Business) (Paperback)

I originally purchased this book to learn how to start a gift basket business. I already had some experience but needed the particulars. I found the particulars but wasn't impressed with the information. I felt that the book is biased toward those who have a fair amount of experience and are ambitious enough to undertake a store front, while home-based businesses are made to seem unprofessional. As a person looking to start a home-based business, I felt somewhat intimidated and insulted by the context in which the information was presented.