If you're a beginner in the spice world business and are looking for a profitable spice business to start, I'm actually going to give you 14 different ways that you can sell spices. If you're a beginner or you're just getting started and have spices,
This will be a great handful of ideas that you would have never thought of and we're gonna get into those right now. All right, so let's dive right into this list If you are looking to create a successful spice business,
I'm gonna give you different ways different ideas and different avenues that you could actually sell spices. If you're already started and you're looking for several different ways to branch out, Hopefully this will give you some great, creative ideas. So let's dive into this list. Now this is no particular importance list.
Sell spices from home
If you're looking to actually start a spice business from scratch, very low budget, you can start at home, sell spices from home. Almost every country and States offers what's known as cottage food laws, and these are laws that allow you to sell food or certain products. That are food-related from home. Almost all of them actually allow you to do spice blends or seasoning blends as they may put it. So selling it from home.
Festival Foods farmers Markets
You could sell at farmer's markets, festivals, fairs, food festivals you can do them at wine tastings. You can do them at an assortment of different food. Get together and gatherings, and you can do that from home by packaging, labelling and of course, every state has their own labelling guidelines, but home is really a fantastic place to do it because your investment is very, very low, you're not having to get a big facility.
Wholesaling Spice business
Wholesale, you can wholesale spices. Basically wholesaling works in a couple of different ways. So wholesale kind of refers to two possible business models, okay. One business model may buy goods and get a larger quantity directly from a manufacturer and wholesale them,
Basically and resell them, or another way is actually selling wholesale that you manufacture them, you actually make them yourself. And it could be under your own brand or you could have a co-packer or a private label company make them for you and do it that way, okay.
Online spice selling business website
Online, this is through your own website. Okay, and I'm gonna go over actually a couple of different E-commerce variations next down the list. But this one is your own website, basically creating one like on Weebly Shopify,
Having an E-commerce business or an E-commerce presence on your own website. That is another great way that you could sell spices, if you haven't thought of that.
You could supply restaurants. Yes, believe it or not, even doing it from home, some States allow you to actually supply it as an ingredient.
So if you have a, let's say a really unique Asian blend of spices, and you have a couple of restaurants around in your neighbourhood or area, or even your city, You can even go and sell them to restaurants, okay.
Sell Spice on Amazon
Of course, everybody knows what Amazon is, selling them online on that platform is a no brainer. There are millions of customers looking for spices and they go to Amazon. So selling your spices online through Amazon, having that store separate from your own website, is another great way to be online Promote market your spices.
Advertise Spice Business on YouTube
We actually do this with our candy business, YouTube You can actually create very short videos on YouTube and use it as a platform to sell and promote and market your spices. How do you use YouTube to sell stuff?
ell what you do is you actually create those videos, you post them on YouTube, explaining either a certain recipe that uses your spices, how you actually blend your spices. You don't have to give out a recipe for it,
But actually how you blend it or how you put it together, even behind the scenes on how you make it. And then in the description below the video, you can add links to all of your online stores or even your own website,
Sell Your Spice on Walmart
Walmart.com. Yes, you can actually sell products, your own food products on Walmart If this is something you've never thought of before, walmart.com is a fantastic place to create your own storefront, and that would allow you to actually sell your spices through them, okay.
LinkedIn is gigantic and yes, again, You can leverage LinkedIn like you do YouTube. When you go on LinkedIn, you can create a profile dedicated to your spice business. And then in there, you could put additional links to your YouTube videos about your spices.
You could put additional links on there to your websites, even to
your Amazon store, your Walmart store.
If you've got your own website that you've created through Shopify or Weebly, you can also do that as well. LinkedIn is a great place and you can also connect and network with a lot of food industry executives, restaurateurs,
Food truck owners, these are people who would be interested in buying your spices.
Sell your spices Private label
The next way to sell your spices, private label Now I don't mean private label in the way that you think, but I'm talking about you offering the service to put other people's names on your spices, is a huge industry.
Co-packing and private labelling in a sense, where you can offer on your website, a variety of your own spice blends, or spices, and you can actually put someone else, another company on that will pay you to put their name and their label on your product.
And you basically make, say minimum order amount could be 500 bags to 1000 bags, but we do private labelling. We'll put your logo, put your information on it, and you can actually create a private label spice business, but you do the actual private labelling.
Subscription
Believe it or not subscription business A monthly spice subscription business is another way to actually sell spices online. And this is actually cool because it creates a recurring amount of money every month. And you can offer a huge variety of spices and guess what?
You don't have to actually sell your own spices. You could actually curate a variety of spices that you get, where you can even buy online or buy them in bulk or buy them wholesale, or you could get it from retail at a low price and flip them into subscription boxes. So subscription boxes are another great way to sell spices.
Facebook marketplace
Sell it on the Facebook marketplace, Facebook has an ability on their platform for you to create a store to sell your products. Plus you're in front of hundreds of millions of potential customers every month. And you can run Facebook ads tied into your store, very easily, so very seamless. Facebook is another place to actually sell spices.
Sell spice on eBay
eBay everybody knows who eBay is right, but if you haven't thought of it and you're a beginner into the spice business idea, you can actually open a store on eBay and focus it completely on nothing but spices, spice blends, herb blends and rubs and you can create a store on eBay.
Sell Spice on Etsy
etsy.com. Yes, you can actually sell your own spices because it's, again, your own brand. You could sell them on etsy.com. And they are gigantic. They're actually growing at a very steady pace, almost at the point where they're gonna be very similar to eBay, as far as the size and opportunity. Okay, and lastly, manufacturing. So basically this is the higher end.
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If you're looking to invest a lot more money in a bigger facility, and you want to manufacture them in very large bulk, in very large quantities, You can manufacture your own spices. This isn't something where manufacturing wouldn't be considered like a cottage food business,
where you're doing a smaller portion or the smaller amount, where you're selling just a few bags here and there. And we're talking about even five, 10, 15 pounds, which could be sold for food service.
These are businesses and companies that distribute larger quantities and portions to franchise restaurants, hotels, resorts, universities, colleges. These are very large bulk quantities, but manufacturing them, that's another way. Okay,
So a lot of times, a lot of people when they first start out, they may be thinking, you know what, I'm gonna do it from home and I'm gonna do it on a small scale. And there's nothing wrong with that. But these are gonna be about different variations, ideas that could potentially open the door for you, to give you ideas, to go in multiple directions at once because it will increase your amount of income.
If you're looking to make more money in a multitude of different ways, don't just narrow your scope or your ideas. Hey, I just wanna sell in retail stores. You know what, hey, I just wanted to sell it from my home and maybe I'll do farmer's markets. Well, there's such a huge, different way,
if you get really creative and check out some of these ideas, that you can actually begin to create your own line of spices, but offer them in such a multitude of ways that you can have money coming in from different directions. Is this easy to do? Well obviously, no it's not, It's definitely gonna take some work.
We operate online, E-commerce food businesses now, and it's definitely a lot to juggle and it's a lot to manage, but it's definitely something that you can do. And as obviously your business grows, so will your team, and you can get additional people to help you with the process. But having a multitude of E-commerce presence online, is definitely a no brainer, and I highly recommend you do that.
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