Bath Bombs Business Bombing

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Bath bombs business bombing. Let me elaborate on this. Izzy as some of you know has been helping the neighbor up the road with her business. Her business is hand made bath products. She makes hand made soaps and bath bombs. She however has little to no experience in sales ,marketing or anything really for that matter. My wife was offered to come aboard and be part of it to help aid in making it flourish and be successful but my wife kindly declined the offer. My wife has been self employed for a long time and wants to remain as such. At first I couldn't understand why my wife would turn down the offer but now I do. My wife just read an email in response to the one she had sent the lady with things she felt that the lady had to work on to make her business venture be more successful. My wife opens it up and begins reading and after she was done I hear omg is this lady stupid why do I always end up trying to help the idiots there is a reason they aren't succeeding. She then proceeds to explain. She told the woman she needs to create a website but they aren't free or at least have a blog page where people can go to get more information. She told her she needs to mark up the price because her products are worth more and she won't turn a profit if they are as cheap as she is selling them. She needs to needs to stop handing out free full size samples. She needs to put her information on the labels. There is no way for anyone to know how to get more if they wanted to or how to reach her. This is not good. Then my wife tried explaining to her that she couldn't charge the same thing that she charges for a small size bomb for the other larger sizes. My wife had told her to make business cards. To host a get together of sorts with finger foods and drinks and for her to take that opportunity to sell her bath bombs and soaps and let them take free samples. My wife also told her to go out and stop at private own convenience stores and inquire about them purchasing some and possibly making arrangements to have a longer term agreement. What does the woman do? The one thing my wife hates come up with excuses and dismiss every thing my wife told her. As my wife said she has been making these for 15yrs and she has sold under 50! There is a reason she is not doing well. There was much more advice and what not my wife likes to make sure she covers all the bases. However she usually gives the individual a broken down one page version of what they need to know and then has a detailed long list of the rest if they want it but most times they do one of two things let her do it or take her advice and apply it. My wife is angry because she feels her talents,advice,efforts and time are all being wasted. She said I can think of much better things to waste my time on then people who ask for advice for free which would be costly to get from others. Well it won't be long now. What I see is my wife dropping her as a client. Isabelle has already stated its not about the money. I took her project on pro-bono. I can be off doing this for someone who is actually going to do something with what they have been given. So it won't be long my wife predicts within the next 6 months to a year the woman will be doing this as a hobby if at all. The reason is because she will make no profits to cover the cost of making them and she will make no money to pay herself for the work she is putting into it. So bath bombs business is bombing miserably and there is nothing we can do but stand back and let it burn while we stand there and watch.