Start a Santa Letter Business

What Exactly is a Santa Letter Business?

Each year thousands of children write letters to Santa Claus and never get a response, but your Santa letter business can change all that. By owning your own Santa letter business, you can give children something to cherish for years to come. A parent pays for a "letter from Santa" for their child and you write a personalized letter in response.

What Type of Equipment and Supplies are Needed?

There aren't a lot of equipment needs for this business. In fact, you can get started with nothing more than a computer, Christmas stationery, a printer, and a way for parents to contact you. You may want to consider getting a post office box for your business so you won't have people sending letters to your personal address.

What Skills and Attributes Will You Need?

A good command of the English language and the ability to type are all the skills you'll really need. If you love children and can relate to them, you'll do well in this business.

How Do You Decide What to Charge?

Parents want their children to be happy and to encourage the magic of Christmas as long as they can. It's not unusual for Santa letter businesses to charge as much as $10 per letter. Of course, you may be able to find them cheaper online, but the quality of the letter leaves much to be desired. Deliver great quality and command a better price.

Think about what you would be willing to spend to have a personalized letter sent to your child from "Santa" and that will give you a good starting point for the price. Factor in your costs - stationary, postage, and printer ink - then add a little to the price of the letter to help pay for those items.

Use Creative Marketing Ideas.

Don't wait too long to start advertising your new business. In fact, if you haven't started by the first week of November, you may have waited too late. Sell letters from Santa on auction sites. You can also create order forms that can be given to schools and preschools to send home to parents.

Consider creating a website and advertise there, send out postcards to people in your hometown, or put up fliers in local businesses. Set up your computer in a booth at a Christmas craft show and have letters made on the spot for parents and grandparents to take with them.

To Learn More:

Setting up a Santa letter business is a fun and lucrative business to start with a minimum of money and equipment. Get step-by-step help, download letter templates and more, by grabbing your "Just Add Sweat Guide to Start a Santa Letter Business"

If every kid loves sending letters to Santa, imagine how delighted they'd be to actually RECEIVE a letter from Santa. Of course, Santa is a very busy guy, so he needs helpers to get his letters out and thus, the growing opportunity for starting a Santa Letter Business from home.

The Just Add Sweat Guide to Start a Santa Letter Business offers a very good overview with handy tools to break into the business.

The package includes:

- An instantly downloadable and printable e-guide.
- 10 sample letters that you can for your business.
- Spreadsheets to help you track sales, costs and profits.
- Free printable sheets that you can add to the letters you sell.

Format:

Instant download with PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader), .doc (Microsoft Word), .xls (Microsoft Excel). If you don't have Microsoft Office, you can easily use Google Docs to open the files and it's free.

Content:

The guide includes a bunch of topics including -

- How a Santa Letter Business works and what's involved.
- Who business is suitable for and skills that will come in handy.
- Required and optional equipment and supplies.
- How to get special North Pole postmarks for your letter for added authenticity.
- Understanding and setting yourself apart from the competition
- Pricing your product.
- Putting together letters that parents and kids will be glad to receive.
- Theme letter ideas (ex. baby's first birthday, new home, etc.) - plus templates are included with your purchase.
- Business startup checklist.

Extra Stuff:

The guide and all the goodies actually come with lifetime updates, so anytime they update anything, you automatically get the updates without any extra charge.

Thoughts:

The guide itself already covers a decent amount of detail in getting started with the business, but the extra tools like the sample letters and spreadsheets should make it easy for anyone to get started.

Where to Buy:

Click here to visit the Just Add Sweat website and learn more