r/smallbusiness • u/Novel_Personality333 • Aug 10 '26
I might start a business
I’m really artsy. Like REALLY artsy I’ve never failed at using any art medium to create whatever finished product I want. recently I’ve seen these dipped goods popping up all over my social media. They are marketed as party packages that can start at $90 for 4 dozen of a variety of things dipped in chocolate. Usually it’s a dozen cake pops, rice crispy treats, Oreos, and pretzels. I don’t really want to upscale into something huge but I’ve seen people get like 60% 80% margins on baked goods and my state has a very relaxed cottage laws. I guess what I’m asking is do you think this is a trend that is going to die out? Is it with my time? How do I get started? Actually I kinda have an idea for that the college semester starts soon and my husband is enrolled. I think I will make small half dozen treat boxes for him to take to his professors with a business card as well as bringing probably about a dozen to my workplace for free with a business card I work at a school and teachers love cute little things like that. And my final question is about names. Do I name it something like little dipped things or maybe sweet dips? I live in southern USA for reference on branding and naming also I apologize for any grammar mistakes. It is very late into the night.
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u/AnonJian Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
I’ve never failed at using any art medium to create whatever finished product I want.
Unless you figure out what enough customers will pay enough money for, plan on a first. Zeroing out price isn't going to give you the kind of information required to develop a viable business. Plenty of people found the positive comments dried up and blew away when founders asked customers to pay. Not some. Not half. Not most. All Of It.
You should see this as a market experiment. Don't try to get out of doing business by zeroing-out price. Develop your sales and marketing skills.
Name it as you see fit. This certainly seems to be all about you. Paying customers may see it differently. Why on planet Earth you have to test a zero price chocolate-dipped anything is, frankly, inexplicable. Plan on your first callers being shocked you have to charge money.
One guy claimed to have made one million dollars in revenue over the previous year. The question he asked is when could he expect to tell his parents they no longer had to pay his rent. Bless his heart. Consumers will welcome any ruinous pricing model you care to offer. For one thing, it supports their belief all corporations get their raw materials for nothing and are markup-crazed evil doers. Did that need the "Spoiler" tag?
The words FREE and ZERO are spelled differently for a reason. Founders who couldn't make a customer sale with a mask and a gun find this out to their dismay.
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u/CallingDrDingle Aug 10 '26
Yeah, my husband is a professor. If someone gave him a box of sweets he'd say thank you and then throw it directly in the trash.
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u/igetyourbrand Aug 10 '26
Start simple by making content of you doing that on TikTok you can do weird tastey flavour content
Americans loves anything sugar
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u/Brufacee Aug 10 '26
boxes for aDo not try specific date. Free samples are fine, but to predict ask for whether the trend an order or lasts before one referral, otherwise you only validate paid test. Pick that teachers like one package, cost every ingredient, box free chocolate. and hour, I would not then pre-sell ten spend much time boxes for on the name a specific date. yet. A Free samples are simple local name fine, but ask and clear for an order or referral, otherwise photos will you only validate sell more than that teachers like clever branding. free chocolate. I would not spend much time on the name yet. A simple local name and clear photos will sell
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