Start a Letters to Santa Biz

Starting a Letters to Santa business is probably the quickest and most delightful business you could look at starting. This business is suited to anyone! But especially the young at heart … because it is all about Fun! Fun! Fun!

Do you remember hearing hooves on your rooftop or jingle bells in the hall?

Enriching the imagination of our children and having a little fun is a great business to be in. Helping parents & grandparents bring joy to their families lives, while keeping the “magic” alive is a rewarding business to own.

Did your parents make bunny rabbit prints out of talc or goblins tracks out of slime?

A letters to Santa biz doesn’t have to end with Christmas, you can revamp your biz site from holiday to holiday – Christmas, Easter, Halloween and other fun seasonal festivals are a great time to help your children share in the fun imaginative world or fairies, elves, hob goblins and bunnies who are strong enough and dexterous enough to carry a basket full of Easter eggs.

Imagine the delight on their face when they receive a letter from Santa, the Easter Bunny, a ‘real’ Hob Goblin, the Tooth Fairy or elves and birthday fairies.

Keeping the magic alive for kids.

How do I start a Letters to Santa business?

First … You will need a website … if you don’t already have one, go to step one!

Step one: Word Press, at BiziMums we endeavour to bring you a variety of service providers … but we use WordPress Direct exclusively and can’t recommend it highly enough. BiziMums.com is fully operating on WP right now … looks great doesn’t it?

In this instance we will only recommend using WordPress, not just because it rocks! But because of the free shopping cart plugin you can download. It is free to use and upgrade when your business grows.

You can have it hosted by WordPress or you can host it yourself on your own domain.

For professional reasons we think it is important to host your own so that your web site doesn’t contain WordPress or other businesses names in your address.

Step two: Hosting and domain names, if you are taking our advice you will need to purchase a domain name and start a web hosting account. Both of these can be acquired quite cheaply and do not require any technical skills … And any skills you do need we have probably written a guide on it to help you set up with ease, and you will find them in our BiziStore.

Theme designs

Once you have got your blog set up on your site you can start selecting themes. This type of business is particularly important to have the right look when parents visit your site, especially if you are going to be changing each holiday.

The beauty of WordPress is that you can have multiple themes available for your site and can change between them with just one click. There are plugins for your site that are essential such as a shopping cart and back up add-ons. We have written a great guide for all the must have WordPress plugins for your site, including the one’s you can turn off.

How does a Letter to Santa Biz work?

Well, about now you are probably thinking I like the sound of this idea! Making this magic delight happen for your children is very simple. You will want to include some text information to your visitors like this;

Just how can you make this magic delight happen for your children is very simple. First of all select the letter options that you require and complete your transaction. Our elf like helpers will be notified of the pending letter from your child, and will begin preparing the thank you letter for your child.

In the meantime … sit down with your child and draw a picture or write a letter to Santa, the Easter Bunny etc and post it in the “SPECIAL” post box … you know the one beside your bed. Don’t leave it more than 48 hours – you don’t want the thank you to arrive before you have done this.

Your child’s letter will be posted to the address you supplied, addressed to your child and includes their name, their best friends name and their favourite ‘thing’, throughout the letter.

The important part of your site in this instance is your shopping cart, setting it up how you want it. We suggest that you use PayPal as your payment gateway for simplicity and buyer confidence. Setting up a PayPal account is free, choose the business account option if you can, it will make life easier when your business grows.

The Three P’s

The physical part is preparing, printing and posting the letters. Visit your local stationary store for beautiful papers or check around online. Go the extra mile and include, inside the envelope, a little bit of glitter, snow or (no, no, not rabbit pellets!!) bunny fluff! This will all add to the magic. You can even add options for the parent to choose like upgrading to include a jingle bell … be open minded the imagination is the limit!!

When you receive an order make sure it leaves your hands in the time frame you suggested, as word of mouth is going to be so important in your business.

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