If you have children, then you’ve probably heard about personalized letters from Santa. But did you consider that this is a real, profitable business. And did you also realize that with a little creativitiy and imagination you could create a year-round home based personalized letter writing business that offers more than just letters from Santa during Christmas time?
In the spring you could offer personalized letters from the Easter Bunny. Now the Easter Bunny's been pretty quiet up until now, but thanks to the letter writing business, you can help bring him into the limelight and give him a voice.
Can you imagine how excited a child will be when they get a letter from the Easter Bunny? Kids love Easter! The candy, colored eggs, Easter egg hunts - most kids are very familiar with the Easter Bunny who secretly drops off their Easter Basket each year.
However you can create any type of letters for spring; they don’t have to be just from the Easter Bunny. You can pick any type of characters you want that you think kids are going to want to get a letter from. Getting a letter from the Tooth Fairy, congratulating a child on getting their "big" teeth would be fun for a child.
How do you think a child would feel when she recieves a letter from her favorite TV character or hero? Why not offer letters from Dora The Explorer, Batman or Spiderman, or how about a letter from Optimus Prime (transformer)? I don't have any young children any more, so I'm not sure who they're watching these days, but with some imagination and perhaps a little research, I'm sure you can come up with lots of ideas.
Getting Started
Starting your home based personalized letter writing business will cost you very little. You already have a computer, and probably a printer. You can purchase specialty paper and envelopes from your local stationary or office supply store, or even online. Then all you need to do is promote your new business.
Promotional Ideas
Daycares
Selling these letters can be a lot of fun. Visit your local daycare centers and see if you can send home a flyer with the kids. To help them to decide that this is a great idea, you can tell them the daycare will get $1 for each letter sold.
This is also a great way to advertise your business. A few children get letters from the Easter Bunny and of course they’re going to want to bring those letters to daycare to show all their friends. Those friends will go home and say how wonderful this was and how much they wish they had received a letter. You get the picture?
Hospitals
Is there a children’s hospital in your local area? One idea would be to start an Easter letter program where people pay for a letter to be donated to a child in the hospital. Hospital stays can be very long. Just imagine how nice it would be for hospitalized children to get a letter like this? Not only will the child feel good, but the person who donated a letter is going to feel very good too.
A great way to promote this idea would be to send out press releases to your local newspaper and TV news stations. You might even think about contacting your local talk radio shows about doing a show on this idea.
Churches
Some Churches publish a monthly newsletter. Advertising your Easter Letter to kids and adults would be a wonderful idea. Here you could offer Easter Bunny, Angel letters, or a general Easter Religious letter. This might even be something that could be put in the weekly bulletin.
A Fun And Rewarding Business
Making money with personalized Letters can really be a lot of fun and very rewarding too. It’s a great feeling when that first parent calls you to tell you how happy their son or daughter is because of the special letter they received in the mail. Christmas and Easter are just two of the holidays you can use to promote your letters. Halloween has pumpkins and witches. Letters from the tooth fairy, or a general letter to say “Hey, good job being helpful around the house and being nice to your sister,” are also great letter ideas for this business.
If you market your letters all year, when Christmas comes around you'll have a list of people who have already purchased from you. Then, when they want to buy that Santa letter, who else would they think of buying it from but you?
Additional Resources
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Well, there you go... today's home business idea. A home based personalized letter writing business would be so much fun to start and run... and isn't that one of the main goals of a home business: to have fun.
Until tomorrow,
Terry
