My pleasure, it really does help to get another person churning on an idea. You can brainstorm with just one brain, but you can get a real downpour when you have two or more brains stormin' :)

I suggested doing the business registration first because you mentioned (twice) that it was keeping you from telling people about your business. That made it really important to do.

But if it's not affordable right now, do just like you said: focus on finishing the website, building up your stock, and sending out postcards with your website address while you save up for the registration fees.

I'm wondering...if you haven't already, find out the absolute minimum you need to get legal to sell? I'm sorry I don't have advice to offer on this, but I don't sell products. For a service business in my state, I only needed a $25 trade name registration to get started. Hopefully someone with retail experience will contribute to the convo...

One thing for certain, if folks are asking for wheat-free, then make them! Adding that to your stock, you could drop the least popular flavor of what you carry now to keep the same number of kinds...less overwhelm.

So cool that customers are excited about your product that they're making requests! I bet they will be tickled to see that you honored their request.

You're rolling! Good luck!


Crystal
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