Who doesn't love a beautiful gift basket stuffed with sweet smelling beauty products or cheeses with jams and all kinds of different treats.
The booming gift basket business brings in more than $1,000,000,000 (one billion) each year to florists, home based gift basket business, gift stores and through other sales that are related to the business.
Gift baskets are a unique gift giving idea that becomes more popular each year thanks to new categories and new interests and available products.
You can sell themed gift baskets -- bed and bath, gifts for children, wine lovers, chocolate lovers, a day at the beach, champagne and caviar, first day of school, Valentines Day, Christmas gift baskets, Easter baskets, 4th of July, etc.
-- at gift trade shows, through mail order, Internet auction, etc,.
At local flea markets you can set up an area where people can put together baskets with products that they choose from your available items -- and you can charge per item or charge a flat fee per basket.
To get your business started you can get business cards and brochures printed that illustrates your available gift baskets and other products.

You can compile a mailing list of potential customers that you can send a brochure to.

Give business cards to people in your neighborhood, at work, at the gym, at church, on the train or bus,

Distribute your cards and brochures to corporate office buildings -- especially during the Holiday seasons

Take out ads in local newspapers and magazines

Give sample gift baskets to local radio stations to be awarded as prizes

Take candy filled dishes to several businesses along with some business cards and brochures When you have gotten your business organized;

Go to trade shows to show and sell your baskets and other products to the buyers and other customers at the show.

Personalize your baskets by designing, printing and using your own labels.

Spend one hour a month showing others how to make gift baskets -- sell your products at the class to make more money and to steadily grow your business.

Get started with your gift basket business and get your piece of the 1,000,000,000 pie.