Starting a business selling homemade natural beauty products?
Starting a business selling homemade natural beauty products?
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Question by mtgirl118: Starting a business selling homemade natural beauty products?
I want to start a business selling homemade natural beauty products such as facial masks, cleansers, and makeup. I want to advertise but don’t want it to be expensive. I know I should start a website, so what are some free website hosting services that I can use besides geocities and myspace for until I can use a real domain? Thanks.
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Answer by madison_c_h
yes.
when u have a website you will have to advertise the site and such, so you will still pay more $ $ $ . and websites like www.____.com are so expensive.
try ebay.
im so addicted.
ebays stores are quite reasonable. they start at 15 a month. its cheaper than a regular url.
and stores get special advertising on ebay.
its fun too.
and think of how many people are on ebay.
tell me how it goes, im interested in trying it out.
madison_c_h@yahoo.com
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212 MEN by Carolina Herrera
Image by Elvis John Ferrao
212 Men
…my favorite eau de toilette ever all time, sold at Muscat Perfumes & Cosmetic outlets(Muscat Pharmacy), Sultanate of Oman
Distinct, innovative, elegant, and subtle, this warm fragrance offers a long-lasting sensuality. Inspired by the energy and international allure of New York, 212 Men fragrance is impeccably attired in a bottle inspired by the world’s most refined objects. It is packaged in a carton of colors evoking those same key notes of energy, style, and panache.
Notes
Grapefruit, Ginger, Mandarin, Aquatic Molecules, Sandalwood, Guaiac Wood, Musk.
Carolina Herrera – Biography
She grew up in the family hacienda, where she played in a garden filled with every type of flowers. When the little girl breathed in the scent of those beautiful colourful flowers, she did not imagine that one day she would create one of the most famous perfumes of our time: 212.
However, flowers were not the only things that she loved as a child. Like her mother, Carolina has always adored animals. "I grew up surrounded by big and small dogs and when I was nine years old", she recalls, "I was given a beautiful puppy to look after. That is where my love of dogs come from".
Apart from her love of animals, her parents also instilled in her a sense of responsibility and the gift of organisation from an early age. She was at boarding school for a while, even though her most vivid memories are of the days spent at home: her cousins, parties, that kitchen which became an ideal place to let her imagination fly… Carolina recalls: "I adored the kitchen of that house, I loved to sit on a seat and watch what was going on there. I carefully examined each object as each of them contained their own world. It was an old place, similar to a cave. It took me back to the Middle Ages. It also was a laboratory where my grandmother, an excellent cook, managed to create the most unexpected and delicious flavours".
Yet, above all, what was deeply forged in those happy childhood days was the lasting feeling of belonging to a family to whom she is totally devoted. She is still very close to her sisters and in particular to her younger sister, Patricia, who she often telephones. Carolina and her father send each other numerous e-mails every week.
When she was very young, Carolina Herrera learnt to trust in herself and her instinct. Her imagination was more important than any toy when it came to playing. In fact, creativity is a fundamental part of her: "Creating things with my imagination as a child has helped a great deal in my work for the Carolina Herrera brand. To help in the birth of a product such as 212 or in the CH line of clothes requires a huge dose of imagination".
The British School of Caracas was where many hours of her childhood were spent. Times of learning: "When I started, I didn’t speak a word of English. The first word I learnt was pillow. I was totally lost and I thought all the teachers were crazy. I still have my exercise books and I look at them from time to time". Her first school, the first homework… and her first boyfriend: a young man called Philippe.
When she was 12 years old, Carolina moved to New York with her parents. She had a British accent from her years at the British School of Caracas, which she soon had to adapt to the way that New Yorkers speak. There were many changes: uniform, girls’ school, going by herself to school. "Changes, "she recalls "that my parents had to adapt to and give me more freedom and more free time. I started going out with my friends and boys telephoned me at home, but I also began to discover that marvellous city of New York, with its taxis, its subway, its parks, its museums… All of which I miss when I am away on a trip."
When she finished school, she went to college in Poughkeepsie, where she studied Bio-chemistry and Bio-psychology. When she graduated, she thought about continuing in this area and began to work in a laboratory at the Rockefeller University. "I then felt as if my heart was telling me that this was not the right thing for me. One evening, I meet a film director who was looking for a production assistant. We talked for a long time and, even though I told him that I had no experience of the film industry, he took me on". Two years later, Carolina moved to Los Angeles, where she spent three years working in the audiovisual industry: film and television production companies, photographers, etc. It was in 1997 when, she was just chatting with her mother one day, when the opportunity came up for her to help her mother launch a new perfume "I was thinking then", she explains " of moving to Europe. I wanted to live in Spain, together with my friend Victoria, to film a documentary on the young students at Madrid’s School of Bullfighting and their dreams of afternoons of glory. The spirit of the new perfume, 212, evoked the New York that I so missed when I was travelling, so I thought it was an excellent idea to translate this world that I loved and often missed into the language of the aromas. To capture it in an evocative fragrance that would let you take a world of sensations in your bag and bring the Big Apple to you however far away you are". She had the chance to use all her imagination during the creative process to come up with and launch 212: "It involved innovating and boosting the brand. A new contribution not only due to its ingredients, but also because we introduced new ideas in the packaging, the textures and the materials we used… We wanted to dream, a thing that I was used to doing since I was small". And Carolina Herrera’s dream became reality and is shared by thousands and thousands of women that have discovered in 212 a fresh, urban, elegant, cosmopolitan, different, New York and, above all, universal fragrance. In fact, 212 has had great international success since it was launched in 1998. One year later, the fragrance for men was launched and marked the start of a full range of beauty and cosmetic products. Since then, she has become her mother’s, Carolina Herrera, closest assistant, who in turn has discovered in her daughter a true inspiring muse full of new and fresh ideas. And she is now involved in developing numerous projects for the brand and is even more excited about it than ever: "I have always loved to help my mother in the area of fashion, giving my opinion, contributing my ideas… Now, however, with the project of the CH shops, the work is more intense and thrilling, and ranges from designing the shops as somewhere where the customer feels comfortable and can enjoy fashion to designing the accessories. And this is just the beginning, as the possibilities are infinite
Boutique locations around the world:
Carolina Herrera New York
United States
Dallas, Texas – Highland Park Village
Los Angeles, California – Melrose Place
New York City, New York – Madison Avenue
CH Carolina Herrera
United States
Costa Mesa, California – South Coast Plaza
Coral Gables, Florida – The Village of Merrick Park
Dallas, Texas – NorthPark Center
Houston, Texas – The Galleria
Las Vegas, Nevada – The Forum Shops at Caesars
Manhasset, New York – Americana Manhasset
Scottsdale, Arizona – Scottsdale Fashion Square
San Diego – Fashion Valley Mall (opening 2008)
Brazil
São Paulo, State of São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro
Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais (opening soon)
Salvador, State of Bahía (opening soon)
Mexico
Mexico City, Federal District – Antara Polanco – Altavista 147
Cancun, Quintana Roo – Kukulcan Plaza
Panama
Panama City, Republic of Panama – Multiplaza Pacific Mall
Colombia
Bogota, Centro Comercial El Retiro
Argentina
Buenos Aires, Opening Soon
Spain
Barcelona
Bilbao
La Coruña; Opening Soon
Madrid (3 boutiques), 1 Boutique in Madrid Barajas International Airport
Ourense
Oviedo
Palma de Mallorca
Pamplona
Salamanca
Seville
Valencia
Valladolid
Zaragoza
Marbella
Portugal
Lisbon
Porto
Switzerland
Geneva
United Arab Emirates
Dubai – Mall of the Emirates and Dubai Festival City
Venezuela
Caracas – Centro Comercial Sambil
Originally posted 2010-10-10 10:23:46. Republished by
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A free website, because of the banner ads, is a total turnoff to potential customers. Spend the $ 10 a month for a legitimate site like Ebay’s ProStores (10 item site for $ 6/mo) or Yahoo Small Business. Both services have a free 30 day trial.
There are books at your library that can help you with information on how to set up a business in your city/state. Check them out so you cover yourself with the legal aspects of a business. Having a legitimate business entity will boost your income with tax credits so make sure you get your company legal.
As for marketing, I found a great book at the library called “Marketing without Money,” which lists 300 ways to get your business out there for free or very low cost. The author is Nicholas E Bade.
I am an avid reader of business books and often spotted at the library trying to learn new ways to help people like you get their dreams turned to reality.
Seriously don’t waste your time on free websites because they won’t get the traffic you need to make sales. Also, while a website is a great way for computer users to learn about your products, there are alot of people who are not online so start working on a little catalog or brochure you can pass out to office buildings, at doctor’s offices, and other places where people frequent that will use your products.
Get to your local library TODAY and you’ll have a pretty wealthy and healthy tomorrow!!!
These day’s starting a website can be very easy and relatively cheap. You can find deals for one year hosting and domain name for about $ 100.
Most host these day’s also give you free scripts that will provide you with a website
But you ask for free, so here is in my idea the best.
Set up a free blog (see below for a great link) You can really use any free blog service, just blogger is one of the largest.
On your blog, post aarticles, how to tips, advice extra. Then if you want you can start to add payment links to the blogs and articles as well.
Good luck with what ever you choose.
Auggie
MyTurnkeyBusiness.com
Yes, go online. I would like to recommend the following sites for you to build your own website:
As you mentioned, online advertising is quite inexpensive and at times totally free. Aside from having your own site, you could also list your url to directories and search engines for people to know and find your products.
Good Luck!
Mary
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