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Make $100K Work from Home Tips #2 DIY Handmade Soaps

At GAGU, we build a social media centric marketplace with educational resources to enable people to make extra income by working from home on their flexible schedules.

In this post, we are going to explore the possibility of making money from DIY handmade soaps. Add artistic design into your soap could give a high profit margin. You can share your soaps on social medias, and get special orders for weddings, birthdays, baby showers and more.

Tip #1 - Visual is the king

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If a regular soap sells for $2 each. A nicely designed handmade soap can be sold for $10 each easily, according to Amazon.com.

Tip #2 - Cater to special events to more higher profit margin

Personalized services always require a premium price. Making a specialized event order for your soaps, like weddings, birthdays, baby showers and more.

Start with 30 bars minimum per order.

Charge a designing fee for $500 or more depends on the complexity of the request.

You can make $10*30+$500=$800 per event.

"Money grows on skills not trees"

― Mac Duke The Strategist

Tip #3 - Generate your orders from social media

To make enough of earnings, you want to maximize your capacity to make soaps. Say each event makes you $800, to cater to as many events as you can, thus to make the maximized earnings.

Generating influences from social media to get online request is very critical. Record the process you handmake your soap, share the ingredients you use.

Every month, to cater to 20 events, brings you $16,000.

Each year, you could generate $192,000 in revenue.

Tip #4 - Build your decentralized private community

When building attractions on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, it is often great start with. However, you have no control over your Web2 profile, say Instagram can shadow ban you anytime. Or even worse, Web2 social media can delete your account permanently. So it is critical to join a decentralized social media platform like GAGU.

Tip #5 - Establish your decentralized private online shop

Selling on Web2 marketplace is also risky, as you also face shadow ban or account deletion. To ensure you have full control over your sales, transactions, account and contents, you should start to consider using a decentralized marketplace, like GAGU.

Your Design is Your Non-fungible Asset

In the end, do not forget to mint your design into NFTs and people can bid for their own design.

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More making money at home tips and fun to come!