How many gift-giving parties do you attend a year? Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, and baby showers are all happy occasions that require that you give the guest of honor a gift.

What if you could make that gift a beautiful personalized basket full of goodies you know they will love?

What if you sold that basket for a profit to someone for them to give as a unique and thoughtful gift?

Wouldn’t you like to be your own boss and work from home on your own terms?

The market for providing unique and personalized gifts is vast. There are numerous reasons for someone to be interested in giving a personal, customized, and thoughtful gift basket. Gift baskets are a unique and appealing gift. I began making gift baskets as a hobby to provide my friends and family with uniquely customized creations made just for them. I would make gift baskets for every occasion!

Eventually, my gift basket-making hobby became a profitable business. I could work from home and be my own boss. I set my own hours, and the sky is the limit! Now, I share my advice about starting your own home-based gift basket business empire in this book Baskets Galore!. I bring my years of cultivated business knowledge about this industry to you in this concise step-by-step guidebook. This book is broken into two parts.

The first part is all about crafting quirky and unique gift baskets as a hobby. Even if you choose to make this a business, I show you how to create your inventory to sell.

In part one, you’ll learn about:

• Different containers to use for the baskets
• Various basket fillers
• Advice on selecting basket themes
• Ways to tie a bow properly
• Steps to make baskets on a budget
• Essentials not to scrimp on when creating your basket
• Endless ideas on what to include in the gift baskets

I also provide you dozens of themed ideas for your baskets. There is a glossary of at least 50 different types of gift baskets for you to create.

In part two, we talk about the business aspects of the gift basket-making craft, such as:

• How to start your business while complying with legalities
• What your workspace should be like
• How to find vendors for supplies
• How to market and advertise your business
• What is the importance of networking
• How to utilize social media to your advantage
• How to create a website
• How to create a portfolio catalog
• How to throw a successful in-home sales party

All of this and much more, sprinkled with my time-tested advice about building and sustaining your gift basket business. Best of luck to you as you begin your venture into the world of gift basket-making!