Comments on: How to Make Money Selling Candles from Home (in 2024)

By: James Strickland

James Strickland — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 05:27:26 +0000

Honestly, learning to make candles is the easy part. Learning to sell and market yourself is what sets you apart from hobbyist. If you want to succeed, you should be a business and/or a brand first, that just happens to make good candles. I have met many amazing candle makers and other artisans that made great products, but had trouble actually selling them.

On the positive side, people are not born salesmen. Anyone can learn to sell. My wife is an introvert. During our first craft show she stuttered and shook. Fast forward 4 years and she is now a competent sales woman. Granted still an introvert in her day to day life, but a competent sales woman just the same. We both have wildly different approaches to selling, yet both of us can sell our product. Think of learning to sell as practicing a disaster drill. Having a plan and rehearsing it leads to confidence and allows you to sell naturally without tripping up on the words.

If you are new to business many community colleges offer classes on business and marketing. Many online resources also exist.

I hope this helps.

By: sudhirsingh

sudhirsingh — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 08:44:01 +0000

I am interesting in candle making business and also is being done .production is in process.please suggest how or whom to sell candles .
Pl waiting for your reply

By: Satrap

Satrap — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:35:08 +0000

In reply to Mar.

I don’t have any exact numbers. But I’d say, even with high competition, it is still possible to make it successful. After all there are hundreds of thousands of businesses that compete in the exact same space and they all somehow manage to work it out.

It’s all about developing and working your own unique angle. Offer/do something that nobody else is doing/offering. For example, create a unique and interesting candle shape.

By: Mar

Mar — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:34:16 +0000

How much of the candle making business has been exploited already across the country, and is the business growing, declining, or staying flat?

By: Satrap

Satrap — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 17:48:27 +0000

In reply to Howard. Thanks, Howard.

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:24:08 +0000

I think you did a superb job summing up how people can sell candles for a fundraiser as well. Wish we had written much of this article for our site.

By: Bhumi

Bhumi — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:22:56 +0000

I decorate the flower vast and candels . I want to sell thoes craft and earn from home which store to contact in pheonix. Please suggest

Thanks
Bhumi

By: Satrap

Satrap — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:01:00 +0000

In reply to Anna. You are welcome Anna. Thank you for the kind words.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 03:24:27 +0000

Thank you for all the information on this site I did learn a lot I had a business in GA( when my husband and I lived there) selling to co workers and farmers marker. Now I am in MT it is very hard to sell here. I will try again also I make jewelry those I have not been able to sell either my presentation needs work or I have lost my touch, not sure how to do it yet but I am working on it. I know I can sell them in GA I went to a yard sale and I sold them candles I did not purchase anything I made money here in Montana it is another story.
Again thank you .

Anna

By: Satrap

Satrap — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 18:02:17 +0000

In reply to shihabudheen. I don't know about bulk, but I know people how use Facebook to sell their homemade candles. It's fine line of course, you don't want to be selling 24/7 and alienating all your Facebook friends.