sweetie business

kathcake

Obviously there are a lot of sweet businesses around at the moment, I was just wondering if you thought there was room for another online sweet venture? How much realistically would it cost to set up?

thanks

lincroft1710

kathcake wrote: »

Obviously there are a lot of sweet businesses around at the moment, I was just wondering if you thought there was room for another online sweet venture?

If there are already a lot of sweet businesses, then unless you are offering completely different lines or are considerably cheaper, then I don't think there is room for another one.

whenispaydayagain?

As above i think it looks a little saturated unless you can offer something different (i.e. sugar free or retro but I think there are quite a few of them around from what I can tell) or cater to a particular market.

Difficult but not impossible. I guess it depends how much you want to sink into it. You can get a website built (cost could be anywhere between a couple of hundred to a few thousand) and some stock (again the more choice the better but you could prob start with just a few hundred pounds worth) but the real challenge would be to get traffic. Much easier said than done in a saturated marketplace.

Good luck though.

emlou

kathcake wrote: »

Obviously there are a lot of sweet businesses around at the moment, I was just wondering if you thought there was room for another online sweet venture? How much realistically would it cost to set up?

thanks

Well you need somewhere to make the sweets, will you rent premises or work from home?

There are also storage issues, have you got somewhere appropriate to store the food(sweets)? Would you need to rent somewhere?

How will you sell/deliver the sweets? Will you need a website? Is your current transport suitable for deliveries?

I'm sure there are many more considerations people will come up with.

Good luck.

SailorSam

I knew someone who use to sell sweets. He bought in bulk, bagged them up and went around pubs and clubs of a night selling them, people buy anything after they've had a few drinks.
He was doing Ok but then after meeting all these contacts in the pubs decided to change direction into something with a higher mark-up.
Now he's in Walton Jail for drug dealing.

emlou

SailorSam wrote: »

I knew someone who use to sell sweets. He bought in bulk, bagged them up and went around pubs and clubs of a night selling them, people buy anything after they've had a few drinks.
He was doing Ok but then after meeting all these contacts in the pubs decided to change direction into something with a higher mark-up.
Now he's in Walton Jail for drug dealing.

Is it wrong that I'm laughing? :rotfl:

lincroft1710

Barginhurter wrote: »

why is everyone so down i think it is a great idea if you have the right drive behind you and inside you. i think you can make any thing work

It's not a case of being "down", it's a reality check. To break into an already overcrowded market even online means having products which are different or more competitively priced compared to the opposition, being able to attract customers to the website or sale medium, prompt delivery, maintaining stock in the right environment, and if you are making the product yourself there is probably a whole raft of Health and Safety regs which have to be obeyed. Etc, etc.

Having "drive" just isn't enough these days.

brightonman123

unique hand-made items maybe the way to go, with free local delivery?
(franchise opportunities!)

seen a LOT of pick n mix style shops around town, but v expensive.

paddyrg

Sweetie shops - there was a flurry of new ones opening near me last year, almost all have gone to the wall. Everyone thought it was easy money, piled in, and the market could only sustain a certain level.