If you enjoy butterflies, why not start your own butterfly celebrations business.
Many cultures see butterflies as good fortune and release them during a special occasion. You could release them during weddings, engagement parties, baby showers, birthdays, anniversaries, and even funerals.
You can sell the butterflies for about $10 each (for a dozen of them). Ultimately, you should try to breed your own butterflies, so you can have them on hand when needed for these occasions.
Most people enjoy butterflies; they are such gentle delicate creatures that seem magical in some sort of way. If you enjoy butterflies, you will certainly enjoy the business idea of releasing them during any special occasion. Many cultures see butterflies as good fortune.
Bringing a joyous moment to special occasions would be a wonderful choice for a business opportunity as long as the butterflies cooperate with you; you should find great joy in offering such a special moment at these occasions.
What type of occasions might you target to offer your services? You could release your butterflies during weddings, engagement parties, baby showers, birthdays, anniversaries, and even funerals. There are probably many more occasions that you could add to these too. Your services could even work for presentations, announcements, promotions, and such for businesses.
You can sell the butterflies for about $10 each dozen. Ultimately, you should learn how to breed your own butterflies, so you will always have them on hand when needed for these occasions.
Make sure that you can give your customers options of types and colors of different butterflies too. Have good quality photos of the types that you will be able to offer them at the time of their celebration. This is why it would be favorable to have many types on hand yourself. You also want to make sure to have a few different sources of providers of butterflies, as you get ready to set up this business.
Obviously, this is not a great business idea for people that are squeamish when it comes to handling insects. So, consider this aspect if you are thinking you would like to try this business. You will want to be able to house many butterflies and harvest them as they mature. This will require a lot of handling of them. You might want to invest in several different containers to release them from also, letting your customers decide the one they prefer you use at their special occasion.
You might choose to advertise in several different ways. Most people, you will find, are not even familiar with such a service. Be sure to always carry plenty of business cards with you when you are at these special occasions, the guests will most likely be so impressed that they will want to contact you for their special occasions also. You might leave some advertising of some sort at your local party stores if they will agree to let you.
Give some thought to the many separate businesses that might draw your potential customers such as; wedding chapels, bridal stores, card shops, baby products, funeral homes, etc. Visit these businesses and see if they will allow you to leave information with them to pass on to their customers that may be interested in your services along with their products.