What is the FIRST thing you do to sell a product?

Question

I have a food product that everyone tells me I should bottle and sell. How does one go about doing that? How do you 'first' start out?

Answer 1

The first thing that comes to mind is "Sell yourself first!" But that doesn't give you so much go on with maybe, but you still need to be thinking about having to do that. Then get in touch with some food manufacturer companies that market foods something like your product. Just use your computer to keep track of everything, send almost like letters to all of the different companies you contact, offer them the "license" to sell your food product.escribe it to them, but don't give away your reciepe secrets completely or you're through. Ask them for a confidentiality document, not to disclose your product, when they reply to your initial letter. Do this at least 10 or 20 times to different companies, and see what happens. By then you will have so much experience at how to deal with your quest, that you won't need more advice from me in all likelihood. Of course if you unlimited funds you could just start bottling the product and try selling it yourself to grocery stores. Believe me, that won't work. You don’t have the network. Would you believe that you would have to pay each grocery store a fee to allow you to have some precious shelf-space for them to even allow your product to sit in their aisles? True. You don't have that type of capital probably. If you have a store manager that knows of you, likes you as a customer, whatever, you can verify what I am telling you--maybe even get him/her to agree to give you some little bit of a shelf in the store. But then you would have to get the health department's approval as to your food preparation techniques, get your Secretary of State's approval of your brand name, and on and on. Better to just get some existing company to "license": your product and accept the royalties once your product goes on the market. Or you might try visiting your supermarket and make note of the names and addresseses of some odd brand names, like from local distributors that near by customers have probably asked to store manager to stock, and write them to see if they will reply to you as to how they got their start in your field. In any case, it won't be real easy, you didn't think it would probably, or you would see lots of 'mom and pop" products sitting on your store shelves. Since you don't, there's the proof. Kind of like trying to start a rock band in your garage with some friends, doing pretty well in your community eventually, only to find out that only about 2 percent ever make it to the top ten. Oh well. Best of luck in any case! If you decide to pick my answer as the best, please let me know what your product is and I'll be sure to buy it when it appears in my local store. [e-mail]

Answer 2

Go and sell door to door & shop to shop , it will catch market if the product is worh some thing .

Answer 3

what kind of food product is it? Soda, sauce...
international appeal?

don't go spend big bucks before you research on how far you think it can go; else start with a group of friends/relatives if this product has potential. That's what my wife often does before she go on.

Answer 4

Set up manufacturing first, then sell it locally until you see if it has demand, then hit EBAY.

Answer 5

advertise== make people aware of it

u need not spend a lot it cud be door to door/ ur frens/ pamplets/ banner on ur car maybe!!!