Glowlite

Wow thats great.... So are you wanting to do pillars or jars.

For pillars how about a palm tree embeded into it. Hibiscus floating candles would be cool too. Okay so thats all the things I can think of. I don't have my creative thinking cap on today. LOL

Last year I took out the phone book for my area looked in the gift section and started with florists. I think I mailed 11 of my wholesale brochures out and got 2 respones within the month. (I didn't do any follow_up after I mailed the brochures.) The next one on my list was gift shops/anitque store. I didn't get any respones from any of them for about 3 months. I should have done the follow up.....

My brochure consisted of all my products and a seperate but attached price list. When all was said and done within the year I had 7 account. I mailed out 30 or something brochures. I should have been able to get more accounts. I should have done the follow ups.

After talking to some freinds about this they siad maybe sending a post card with a reminder about the my products would have helped.

I've seen some people put fake flowers in the hurricanes as an embed...

but I like how donnita puts the pressed flowers on the outside of the shells. She make such beautiful candles.

I always forget about the FP when I mail my FO's. I've never had an issue with the po not letting me send the package though. They only ask me what it is and I say is fragrance oil for candles.

I'll be more on the ball with this though. I don't want to be the one who causes a plane to go down becuase my FO's.

I like it. Very eye catching

You can it at health food stores too. Its more expensive though.

Bye bye meatballer. Helloooo bottle capper. Thank you gerrie.

I'm wanting one of the machines that you just pull the handle and out pops a nicely formed bath bomb. I have a big order comming in soon and my hands hurt just thinking about making them with my little meatball thingy. I found one in my searches this moring for 350$ There has got to be one out there cheaper..right??

Glow that link is it for just a word or business names? Sorry if it is a silly ?

Okay well maybe I'm not understanding what she's lookin for then.

Wouldn't that be helpful in determining what words are tm and in what area they are TM?

Oopps sorry about that. I read your post wrong all wrong. I though you said that link...okay anyway to answer your question lisa yes that link is for both. Its any word that is tradmarked. When you click on the word it will tell you whether its a business name or a font type or what have you. Sorry.

If I do a search for sweet pea, I come up with 9622 records. That's just for the keywords search.

But if I go and do a search for sweet pea, exact phrase, it pulls up 60 records.

Now I have to go through each record and find out if that name pertains to my product? Or if I'm violating their trademark, right?

Okay use this search tool

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=9a0jf6.1.1

click on New User Form Search (Basic)

Forgot to ask...what percent of the retail price should packaging be?

If there is a percentage I don't know it. LOL My general rule of thumb is that if the package cost is more than it cost me to make candle I'll find a different way to package it. But for tealights that doesn't fit becuase I spend more packageing them but I sell quite of bit of em so I'll keep it going.

I keep my packageing low because I buy almost everything locally. Except votive and tealight boxes. I do all the printing myself so my main cost for my packing is labels and ink. I desing all my own labels. I shrink wrap pillars and place the sticker on the outside. I don't do boxes for those. Last year I sold about 1400 3x6 pillars and almost double that for 3x3. Like mystical said. Packaging will either make you or break you. Two years ago I spent over 4000 on packageing and learned my lesson. There was no way I was gonna make that mistake again!

BTW This is only for my retail selling not my wholesale. My packing is much different for wholesale.

Trademarking a business is different than a scent name. For instance. Pomegrante. Is a very popular business name and there are alot of trademarks for it. One is returant one is clothing boutique. So if you want the name Pomegrante for your business you could still TM becuase there isn't one for candles or B&B.

Edited to add. At least not one I could find last night.

I really like the one I have I need to get a double wicked on though. It took some getting used to but I love it.

I was searching trademarks last night and found that was very easy to do.

Got all the info I needed rather easily. What words are searching for?

I did find that the sweetpea scent tradmark from BBW is dead. I also found that some scents names are trademarked by the company's that made them. They have the money do it.

IMO Packing sells your product. The quality of your product brings them back for more. Since I just finished my taxes I can give an idea of what I spent in 05 for packaging. 951.08 just for packageing for my candles. Labels ink boxes paper shrinkwrap...and so on. Search around and buy in bulk to get the dicounted prices.

Congrats Bunny.:whoohoo:

Wow they look wonderful.

It took about a week for me to recieve the samples. It was worth it. Oh and they have excellent customer service

hmmm, isn't it possible to upload your font your your website though and have your html reference the actually font right there? I thought you could. That way your web document is referring to your own hosting server for the font.

I'd love some info on using golive....

I tried doing that last year but I couldn't get it to work right. I still had a few that couldn't see it. Auctually one had it default to arial and the other couldn't see anything. The only ones who where able to see it where the ones that had the font already downloaded onto thier comp.

Okay after looking at my stuff again...I think that maybe I didn't do it right. I'm going to go back and see whats up with that.

I use golive6.0. If you have questions pm me but I warn you now I really don't know that much about the program. I'm still trying to figure out the dynamic content part. :rolleyes2

I'm biulding my own webiste too..again I should say..Using Golive

From my experience with this and fonts I have to make every font I use into a picture. It takes more time but the finished look is worth it. I want my site to be easy to use and not worry about people not seeing it the way I want it to be seen. I've been to a few sites that offer a font down load. They usually will say.."to view this site properly please down load this font" Well I hate that. I shouldn't have to down load a font just to view a site.

If anyone has a better way to do this I would love to know.

Building a new webiste. I hate!!! the one I have now. It'll probably take me a damn year to do it but I'm determined.

Sweet Pea. Today I spilled about 4oz of this all over EVERYTHING!!!!

I vote for peaks too. Green tea is my favorite scent.

I keep a good amount of stock on hand at all times. If I get a one order that is rather huge. I will make that order and not take it from my stock. I hate depleting stock for one order.