Not a marketplace blog. These are the working notes of four people who sold handmade goods for years before they built a course — pricing, packaging, festive stock, and the WhatsApp messages that actually get replies.
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Selling & Marketing
Should you sell handmade products on Amazon, Flipkart or Meesho, or stay on WhatsApp? A direct look at onboarding, fees, returns and the maths of one…
Home Business Ideas
A week-by-week plan to start a home business under 5000 rupees in 30 days: choose and learn in week one, first batch and costing in week two…
Selling & Marketing
Your product is judged on a WhatsApp thumbnail in half a second. Product photography with phone, window light and a ₹20 sheet of chart paper passes…
Soap & Skincare
The shelf life of handmade products is decided by one ingredient: water. Which products keep a year, which spoil in five days, how I test a jar at…
Home Business Ideas
Raw materials for handmade products cost twice as much in 500 g packs as by the sack, and the sack is usually the mistake. Where I buy in Delhi, what…
Gifting & Hampers
Diwali does not start in October. It starts in August, when the packaging is ordered and the price list goes out. A month-by-month calendar of…
Soap & Skincare
The cosmetic labelling rules India applies to a handmade soap are the same ones a factory follows. What must be on the pack, what the licence…
Kitchen & Food Business
FSSAI registration for home business, explained without the fear: Basic Registration versus State Licence, the FoSCoS portal step by step, the…
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