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These Home Biz Notes posts have some great Christmas ideas for home businesses. If too late for this year, you might like to put them in your ideas swipe file for next Christmas.
Preparing For Christmas In Your Home Business

Christmas Gifts For The Home Business Owner
Does Your Home Business Prepare For Christmas Shopping?

It Feels A Lot Like Christmas – Pre Christmas Marketing Ideas For Home Business Owners

Christmas Gift Wrapping & Value Adding Ideas

Make A Classy Bow For Your Home Business Product – Video
Host A Christmas Wrapping Night For Charity – 10 Creative Gift Wrapping Ideas

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Customers love great presentation, especially when choosing gifts for special occasions. And don’t you love receiving a beautifully presented gift too?
If you want to do some value adding, just bundle some themed products together, wrap and add an easy to make fancy bow. You can make a gift basket or wrap a gift in cellophane and add a cellophane plume. Gift basket theme ideas are endless.
Making a cellophane plume is amazingly easy and quick. It really adds that extra touch of something special. For me it has a wow factor too.

So often your customers are rushed and stressed this time of year as they finish their shopping, attend school holiday programs, do extra baking, wrap up year-end reports at work and often deal with stormy weather.
How can you make them smile and feel less stressed when they shop with you or visit your online store?
1. Smile of course. Often a smile will bring one in return.
2. Put smiley faces or cheery design on e-mail correspondence with them.
3. Tuck little cards, no larger than a business card, into their packages with an uplifting saying. This works for online …read more

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As home business owners we can easily get caught up in our end of year Christmas business frenzy.
Sometimes it’s good to give back to the community. You could organize some donations from the community and your suppliers, and host a family Christmas gift wrapping community night for a local charity or church.
Here are 10 creative Christmas gift wrapping ideas to get you started.

Use newspaper comics as wrapping paper – great for kids, teens and adults.
Use a jump rope instead of a ribbon for jump rope fans.
Scan or photocopy photos and make a collage on craft paper, or personalize a …read more