Making soap is the fun part, but developing a pricing strategy to sell your soap is often the not-so-fun-part. Our guest blogger Dawn Cabral-Quimby came back from Soap Guild 2014 with an excellent run down on Lela Barker’s strategy on product pricing, and it’s a must-read for any soapy business owner. — A.M.
Do you have accurate product pricing? Are you accounting for your labor? Overhead? Factoring in your paper towels used? What!?
Ten years ago, Lela Barker was a broke single mother living in her parents’ spare bedroom. Today, she is the creator and CEO of Bella Lucce (an award-winning, international beauty company), the executive director of a Moroccan-based nonprofit and president of Lucky Break, a small business consulting firm serving the creative community.
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