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Monday 1 July 2013

Developing Recipes For Sale Can Become A Home Business

By Myrtle Cash


If you love cooking and baking, developing recipes for sale might be the perfect choice for a home business. In the beginning you can earn some extra money, but with work you could turn this business opportunity into a full time income. Recipe development is a great and inexpensive business idea.

Selling your recipe creations will only require you to cook if you are in the process of testing a newly developed creation. There is no inventory to track and supply purchases are very limited. In fact, you should only need to buy ingredients for testing and nothing more.

Your creations can be sold individually or packaged and sold in book form. Both methods have a good potential for earning income, as long as you market them right. Providing consumers with a variety of different mediums for purchase can also help boost sales. Some examples you might consider are PDF, e-book, paper back and compact disc.

Pricing is also an important element of success. If you price your products too low, customers won't appreciate their value. If you price your products to high, people will for a comparable and cheaper option else where. Finding the right middle ground for price shows the market that your products hold a lot of value, but are still affordable.

The type of rights you will grant with your products will also be important for determining earning potential. Since you are the original creator, it is your decision whether or not to allow buyers to republish your creations. You can charge a higher premium if you all republishing though. Exclusive rights grants the purchaser the right to republish without giving you credit. Limited rights grants the purchaser rights to republish only if they give you credit for creating the work.

Themed collections tend to sell better than random compilations. A book with many different cookie or cake recipes would be more appealing to the consumer. Among the most popular compilation themes are slow cooker recipes, freezable recipes and those that target a specific dietary restriction. Gluten free and allergy friendly options are good choices for this category.

There are many different online sites you could list your recipes for sale on, or you might choose to simply create your own website instead. Locally, you can market your business by setting up booths at trade fairs and festivals. Both methods are good for attracting customers, but selling online will require a bit more work. If you will be selling from your own site, you will need to market and promote that site so people can find it. If you will be selling on some of the many e-commerce sites you will need some marketing to direct traffic toward your products.

Developing recipes for sale is a fun and cheap business start up. All you need is a computer, a knowledge of how to cook and some creativity to market your products. A low cost business start up, such as this, turns profit quickly because there is little overhead.




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