Bookmark the Occasions

We all have bookmarks in our homes, even people who do not read! Create and sell bookmarks for all occasions - weddings, anniversaries, holidays, birthdays, and more. You can also offer customized bookmarks for your customers.

Reading is a habit and hobby many people all over the world have. Reading is something that can be done anytime of the day, when anywhere in the world. There is of course nothing required to pursue the habit of reading. Once the choice of an interesting book to read is made, the only added necessity may be a bookmark, to remind the reader of where they left off reading.

Bookmarks are found in many shapes, designs, and themes and it is this point that invites you to start a business creating custom-designed bookmarks for those voracious readers out there. Instead of offering just a plain old bookmark, you could create bookmarks for all occasions, like weddings, holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, and any other occasion. Bought by anyone to mark books and given as a gift to someone near and dear. Bookmarks also make great gifts to non-readers.

When making customized bookmarks, you could make them especially for Valentine's Day, baptisms, book authors, teachers, sports idols, movie stars, and any thing else you can think of. You could also offer to create personalized bookmarks using photographs of the customer, or to choose from your choice of photographs, on the bookmark. These bookmarks are bound to make great keepsakes for the customers. Make sure you price your bookmarks well. Selling them at a starting rate of $1 each is rather reasonable; placing too high a rate only reduces the number of customers to you. However, if you decorate both sides of the bookmark, you could sell them at a higher rate of about $1.50 or more per bookmark.

It is better to create a website advertising your services too. This is because the website proves to be a great means of attracting customers. You should place many samples of your bookmarks on the website so that visitors get an idea of your work. Place your contact information that includes your phone number, name, address, and email address on them somewhere so that the interested customer can easily contact you.

When creating your website for bookmarks, you could create different divisions in your website, catering to different types of bookmarks you can create like cartoon, slogans, office, kids, and business bookmarks. Of course, you place examples of such bookmarks in their respective categories for customers' ease of finding what they are shopping for.

When creating custom-made bookmarks, you could add designs and colors pertaining to the bookmark request to make. You could perhaps add some red for Valentine's Day bookmarks, and more white for wedding bookmarks. Anniversary bookmarks could be created corresponding to the number of years the couple have been married. Place some catchy slogans found aplenty on the internet, to place in bookmarks with slogans.

A business of creative bookmarks does not need a degree or certification. The most important thing needed is creating bookmarks by applying your imagination and creativity. The more imaginative and creative you are, the more special your bookmarks will become. Having certain software that makes your painting and creating task easier proves to be an added advantage for you too.

Resources:

http://www.creativebookmarks.com/

http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=tag_title&search_query=bookmark