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This is How I Make MONEY with My Freeze Dryer - An Inside Look
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May 16, 2025
How do you start a business using your freeze dryer? It’s one of the top questions for anyone looking to buy a freeze dryer to make some extra money and in this video, I share an inside look into my own freeze-drying business to show you how much money I make and how you can do it too! This video will most certainly give you an idea of what is required to run a freeze-drying business but it will also give you more clarity on how to make it profitable through my ROI spreadsheet tutorial. Download it for FREE -https://freezedriedbusiness.com/spreadsheet Timestamps 4:39 - What Products Are the Most Profitable 5:53 - Freeze-Dried Packaging Info 7:44 - How to Forecast Freeze Dryer Output 9:03 - Storage Options for Freeze-Dried Goods 10:26 - Branding Your Product Bags 12:38 - Labeling Your Product Bags 15:55 - How Many Blueberries Bags Can We Produce? 20:11 - A Helpful Tool 20:52 - Calculating How To Make Money with Freeze-Drying 30:30 - Can You Make Money? Other videos mentioned in this video: - Common Questions about Packaging - https://youtu.be/wr4SWv0FkvA - Oxygen Absorbers & Label Requirements - https://youtu.be/5mb0i8yDDx0 - Stamping - https://youtu.be/E3etV0UX2-w
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today in this video I'm going to answer a question that gets asked a lot amongst people who are looking into getting into the freeze drying space which is can you
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earn money freeze drying now I believe you can because I've been living it as a side hustle income making great money on
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top of my full-time job for the past four years I've also interviewed entrepreneurs on this channel who have
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grown their company to a multi-million dollar business your success in growing a freeze drying business is going to
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depend on four different things one is your desire to learn the actual industry
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do you understand the freeze dryer what's it doing to different products from fruit candy ice cream and meals
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also it's going to depend on you building a recognizable brand and also building a unique product you got to
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build something that not everybody else is doing or maybe it's just a modification that makes you stand out
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amongst everybody else that's doing freeze drying and lastly it's going to come down to your tenacity and desire to
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win in your business a lot of people can start a business but can you continue to grow and get through the adversities of
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the es and flows of failure and success in your business now whether you are new or experienced in freeze drying this
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Channel and these videos are all about helping you learn how the industry in freeze drying Works especially starting
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a freeze drying business so if you're not a subscriber hit that subscribe button right now and become a follower of this channel now today I'm going to
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take you through a live scenario of my freeze drying business to show you how you can earn money freeze drying now
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stay with me in this video because I'm going to share with you a tutorial on the spreadsheet that I have to calculate
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your your expenses and your Roi and what typee of pricing you need to evaluate when you're looking at your break even
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Point as well as your profit so that you can actually make money using your freeze dryer now right behind me is my
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commercial kitchen that I rent this commercial kitchen is licensed with a censor District Health Department of the
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state of Idaho so I've gone through all the regulatory things to be able to operate inside this kitchen the nice
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part about this kitchen is that it's already licensed to operate a business like mine I don't have to go out and get
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my own lease I don't have to get all the expenses of all the equipment it already has a lot of the stainless steel
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equipment and things for sanitization all of that inside here and I pay a monthly fee to keep my freeze dryer in
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here I also pay an hourly rate to operate just like today in there now
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ring a commercial kitchen like this is a great way for you to test the waters on whether you are the right fit for
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running a food Processing Company because there's a lot of different regulations in Idaho it's a little bit
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more laxed California New York lots of other states that are a little bit more blue than red happen to be a little bit
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more restrictive on the food safety measures now that can be a good thing it could also be a bad thing when you're
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trying to start a business but overall you want to just check with your local health district whoever is represented
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there for the state agriculture Department FDA whatever that is just type into Google call them email them
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ask them what you need to be able to operate in a commercial kitchen and I just think that if you start doing this
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right away and you do it for 6 months to a year you can really see whether you want to explore into investing an actual
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least spot for your own commercial use now let me explain to you a little bit about what we're going to do in this
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video I've got a live scenario for you to see how I'm actually going to make money in my business because I have a
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really unique request from one of my wholesale customers where typically they buy my 5 1/2 by 8 and 1/2 bag that's my
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standard bag that I have craft bags you can take a look at the video description if you want want to see what those bags look like and typically I sell those but
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I also have these tiny bags that I've done some samples in things like that but they decided that they wanted to
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order hundreds of these little tiny bags now with freeze drying you're taking the
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water weight out of the food so if you're Freez drying fruit you're taking almost 90% of that weight away so I've
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done videos in the past on what the net weight will be after freeze drying you can take a look at that video above here
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in the cards or in the video description but I wanted to go through this scenario because I think it's a good practice for me to show you how I go through the
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methods of figuring out how much money I need to make in order to break even on my blueberries with the packaging and
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labels expenses as well as what my profit should be after I break even I've
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already freeze-dried some blueberries they're actually ready in the freeze dryer we're going to pull them out and
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then we're going to bag them in those tiny bags and we're going to see how many bags I get out of all those
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blueberries that I put in there let's go ahead and head on into my commercial kitchen and get these blueberries bagged and show you how to earn money with your
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freeze dryer now if you're going to freeze dry
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fruit in your business it's not the most profitable type of product that you can produce I'd probably think that candy or
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if you were actually able to grow your own fruit if you have a farm you have a direct purchase from those but if you're
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buying your fruit from a local market or from the grocery store like I do you're cutting into your profit margin so you
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don't have as much there the reason I continue to do fruit and the reason you should as well is because people are
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looking for a healthy alternative and what better way then to look at fruit as an alternative freeze-dried fruit
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becomes very snackable it's a way for you to you know travel without having to
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carry a cooler and also the application for freeze-dried fruit is really nice
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after the fact it's freeze-dried so you can powderize all of the fruit to become a powder and you can bake with it people
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add it for frosting and for flavoring of different types of things so there's a lot of different applications for fruit
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and I seem to sell about 50% compared to my ice cream and candy in my freeze dry
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business when I'm going out to markets as well as online on my website so selling freeze-dried fruit is definitely
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something to take a look at and I'm going to show you what type of profit margin we're going to generate from the
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freeze-dried blueberries that I've got here now let's talk about packaging I did a video on the eight commonly most asked questions about packaging for a
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Freez drying business you can take a look at that video in the video description as well as the cards above here but I'll talk to you about what I'm
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going to use today to do the sample bags now again I told you that I've done a
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sample for different types of people looking at my wholesale product so I send that typically but I've never done
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an actual order with my sample bags now the reason I still stand my product even though it's very labor intensive is I
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just haven't had the cost benefit to outweigh myself in the amount of orders and demand that I have for my product
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because I've kind of scaled back and made my business more sustainable I don't really have a desire right now to grow my business exponentially and get
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into more of the volume based bags so I just still stamp my bags and I'm going to show you that today and so we're
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going to stamp my logo on the front we're going to put my label that I have for ingredients and all my business
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information that's required by the Central District Health Department on the back of here then we're going to loaded up with the blueberries now the
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shelf life on these bags I typically found to be about 2 to 3 months that's if they're stored in a very dry place as
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well as a non-lit area so I tell all my customers who buy my fruit that these
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have Windows and so they're susceptible to having sunlight impact the freeze-dried product the three factors
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that are going to impact the freshness as well as the durability of your freeze
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dried products is going to be sunlight oxygen and moisture the moisture is going to be taken out in the freeze dryer and the oxygen and the sunlight
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are the other two factors that we don't really have control over you can reduce the amount of oxygen in your bags by using oxygen absorbers you can also
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reduce the amount of sunlight by not using bags that have Windows but if you want it to be presentable you want
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people to see your product windows are a great option for you to choose when it comes to packaging now the easy
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calculation to get a rough estimate of what you're expected to get as a net result from freeze drying is take the
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gross amount of weight that you put in your freeze dryer for these blueberries which I put in a container of 18 oz of
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gross blueberries and I bought 11 of them and then I preze them and then I put them on the freeze dryer trays and
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then we freeze-dried them so if I just divide whatever I'm going to get net out
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of these freeze dryers and divide that by the 30 ounces that I'm going to put in my bags that I might get a rough idea
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of how many blueberry bags I'm going to get and therefore I can then start buying my blueberries in bulk that are
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in season right now and then I can actually know hey I need to do 12 cycles
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of blueberries in order to get my orders fulfilled for the amount of hundreds of
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bags that she ordered but today I want to show you kind of the full process of how I might forecast how much net
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production I'm going to get out of the freeze dryer to how it relates to how many bags we're going to get for an
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order that you may get in your freeze drwing business hey do me a favor real quick and hit the thumbs up on this
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video if you're liking the content because this is really going to help get it out to more people who are searching
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on YouTube or Google about how to earn money with a freeze dryer I'd really appreciate it now one of the things I
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use shortterm for getting freeze dried products out of the freeze dryer is I use these Hefty 2.5 gallon bags now for
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longer term storage that you may have seen in other videos that I've done is I use a 5G bucket that's food safe as well
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as a 12g bucket for storing freeze dry candy ice cream and fruit so if you're
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looking for any of these type of buckets check out the video description below I've got a link to my Amazon storefront
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there you'll find links to all the different types of products that I use in my freeze drying business now for this right here we're going to put all
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the blueberries from these trays in this bag right here and then we'll bag it into our actual craft bag so I'm going
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to put this into the bag and there's
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some stuck on here which is perfectly fine if you don't want them to stick you can use parchment paper you can also use
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the silicone mats that Harvest Right cells if you want parchment paper go to the video description I've got a link to
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Freez dryings supplies.com great us-made products and they've got a
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lot of different things for you to use for freeze drying now this is what freeze drying is all about you're taking the water out of the fruit and getting a
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light crunchy type of fruit snack out of this has the same great flavor and is
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very applicable to creating a powder making it into smoothies things like that so let's now get this into these
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bags all right there's a lot of different aspects to freeze drying and doing this as a business some of you are
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going to use stickers some of you are going to do custom bags where you're printing it in bulk perfectly fine I run
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a side business on top of my full-time job and running this channel so I just kind of keep things very simple from
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what I know now since 2020 I've used a stamp as well as an e pad to stamp my
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logo freeze dry Depot onto these craft bags I know it takes a lot of time I
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kind of like the authenticity and the look of my bags when I use a stamp so that's what I do to today now if you're
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interested in purchasing a stamp or looking at the different logos and how it looks on a stamp I take a look at
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zazzle.com it's in the video description down below you can take a look at all the different stamps that they've got
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and also I recommend using more of like a 4x3 4X 4 in type of stamp it gets it
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large enough to where it's good on a on a larger bag you also want to make sure the bags are actually good for stamping
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and having that ink so you don't want the ink to bleed through these crack bags don't do that so that's why I really like doing them now just for
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transparency to show you how much time it's going to take me to stamp these 50 bags I'm going to put a stopwatch on
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this and then put on a time lapse listen to some music and then we'll be ready to put the labels on the bags as well so
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let's get started [Music]
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now I did 50 bags about 2 minutes and 33 seconds the thing to remember about
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stamping is that you want to get it right aligned right in the middle and I've done a pretty good job just with
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the past few years of doing this that I get it right in the middle and also with a full press so that my logo and all my
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information gets really stamped well with the ink now if I have things that kind of look different or doesn't get
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completely on there I'll actually toss this side because I just want my bags to look very professional so let's go ahead
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and get the labels now on the back of these bags so can all go out to sell now having labels on food type products is
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probably one of the most important things that you're going to be required to do to start a free string business
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whether it's candy fruit ice cream meals vegetables pet food anything like that
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that you're going to sell that is processed you're going to have to put certain information based on the state
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that you live in now in the state of I'm required to put different types of things on my labels some of them are
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different than other states so it's up to you to determine what types of things you're going to meet the requirements so
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that you can start selling your product I've also got two different types of videos that answer the questions of what needs to be on these labels in general
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to make sure that you're compliant so check out those videos in the video description like always or in the cards
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above but what we're going to do is we're going to put the labels on these bags now this is part of the process
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with your freeze drying business and so you're going to put these labels right on the back of the bag that way it
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shows the amount of ounces that that person is going to be consuming as well as what the name of the product is my
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brand name and also where it's produced and where they can contact me as well you can include all different types of
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information on this including maybe uh different ways that they can access your different products through Shopify if
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you have a website maybe you have Etsy maybe you have Tik Tok accounts all that type of jazz can go on the back of these
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labels now the easiest way to get these types of things done is one you could
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develop custom bags and that that way like blueberries are already on your
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bags and then you don't have to put that in there you also don't technically need to have nutritional facts of how many
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calories those types of things on these labels as long as you remain under a certain amount of gross sales in your
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business depending on kind of where you live now I've got a link to the FD a
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small business exception link that they have where you can apply to not have to have those nutritional facts on your
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bags and so if you want to look that up more I've checked with my health district and they say that that website
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and the FDA gives the exemption so you don't have to do that so I can still sell here because that that's that's a
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lot of work trying to figure out what the kind of nutrition facts would be now as you can see this is also labor
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intensive too what I've done in my business is I hand this off off to some
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of my nephews who do this for me they do the stamping they do some of these
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labels on bags it's very easy for you know some kids to get some additional
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money and also it just provides me an opportunity to do other things that I can focus on my business like you know
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uh poking all the blueberries getting things prepped getting things sold um
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all of that so I leave kind of the the more tedious things like this to some
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kids you can have friends family anybody kind of do these types of things to help
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you get ahead in your business so I'm going to do these last two labels on these bags that's going to be 16 total
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cuz there's eight stickers on these Avery labels and that way I have 16 to do now
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what I'm going to do now though is I'm going to I'm going to cut here and I'm going to put the rest of the labels on
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here and then we can move on to bagging all right now to the fun part let's bag all the freeze-dried blueberries with
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these 50 bags that we already stamped and we put the labels on so we're ready to sell it now I'm not going to put
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oxygen absorbers in these tiny bags reason being is I have tested out my samples and they do last 2 to 3 months
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which is perfectly fine for the order that I'm going to give them which they're going to be putting out to their
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customers for the holiday so I have to have these delivered by September for my
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client so I'm going to make sure that these can last and stay fresh for 2 to 3
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months which I have tested in they do now if I wanted to be overly cautious I could go ahead and put some of these oxy
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absorbers in here this is the 50cc type of oxygen absorb it's very tiny so if I wanted to do that I could I
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just haven't found that I needed to do that to keep the freshness up and she keeps it in a damp kind of like
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temperature controlled Warehouse so it's perfectly fine all right so I've got my scale here okay and what I'm going to do
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first is I'm going to tear off the bag because I don't want to calculate the weight of the bag plus the product I
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want to just calculate how much product is actually in there because that's what I have on the bag so I'm going to put the bag onto the scale I'm going to tear
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it off which means you're going to just zero out the scale now and so now when I take this off it actually relates to 2
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oz is what's in this bag so when I put all these blueberries in here and I put
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it back on the scale it should equal 130 Oz which is perfect so I snap this up with a zip looc and all I have left to
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do is use my sealer to make sure that the glue on the bag gets stuck together
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and it provides one more layer of adhesive to not let any air into this
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bag for storage all right so let's do a couple more of these and then we'll see how many actual bags we're going to get
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out of this bag full of freeze-dried blueberries because again this video is going to see how much you can earn with
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your freeze-dried product and in this case freeze-dried blueberries now we're going to keep going with this again this
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is just kind of the process if you don't have kind of a automated kind of machine
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that is going to be putting your blueberries into these bags this is what everyone and I mean everyone including
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myself is doing in their freeze drying business it's a labor intensive type of job it can be very fulfilling you also
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can find different methods to get this filled up a little bit faster these tiny bags just there's no ifans or butts this
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is the way they're opened you have to be able to be good with your fingers and
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open them up one with the top and then you you open it up and then I have my
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two fingers that I put into the bag with my gloves and then I have to open up the
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bottom to make sure that there's a nice little flat area for the the blueberries
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to fall into and once that the blueberries are in there I'm able to fit plenty of blueberries into this bag I've
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done about a dozen bags or so so far so I'm going to put a stopwatch on this to kind of see how long it's going to take
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me to do all of these 50 bags cuz we're going to do a calculation at the very end of this video to figure out how much
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labor we're going to put into our cost so we can figure out our cost of goods sold as well as figure out what type of
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profit we want to earn from our business because go ahead and pay yourself right that's that's a cost but also how much
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are you going to have left over for profit so either put back in your business or take for yourself because
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that's the whole meaning behind a business right is to make money so that you have different means to provide for
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your family have vacations grow and employ people whatever you want to do with your business all right there's the
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finished product of freeze dry Depot which is my business and 50 tiny bags
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for my customer and then now I kind of am going to calculate okay well what's
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remaining in the bags and then how many is this going to produ prod if I do another cycle of 11 18 o containers of
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blueberries how much more Cycles do I need to do of that quantity to be able
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to fulfill the order for the hundreds of bags that she's ordered we might be done in the kitchen but we're not done with this video yet because we're going to
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head back to my office and I'm going to show you through a screen share of how I calculate the ROI for these bags you can
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also do this the same and follow along with me by downloading and getting the spreadsheet that I'm going to show you
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through Google Docs go to the video description below and you'll find a link that's titled freezey bus.com
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spreadsheet I'm going to send you an automated email through that link that gets you access to the spreadsheet that
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you can copy and then make your own type of modifications based on your product and your business so if you want to
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follow along with me go to the video description and get sent that spreadsheet right away then you can follow along with me I'll see you at the
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office all right we're back my home office and now here's the fun part we're going to figure out how we can earn money with our freeze dryer specifically
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basically the freeze dry blueberries that we put in those 50 bags that we did at the kitchen now I've put together a
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spreadsheet that I use in my business just to simplify things so I can know what my cost is to purchase the product
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then after it's freeze dried how many bags I'm going to get and then I have a calculation of what the cost per
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processed bag is going to cost you what that actually is called is the cost of goods sold it means how much is it going
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to cost you to produce one bag or one batch of bags so that you know how to forecast and kind of figure out your
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overall cost to produce that product now this spreadsheet template is available for you for free all you need to do is
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join my email list for the freeze drying community and you can do that through freeze dry bus.com and then you type in
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SLS spreadsheet now you can find that link directly in the video description or go to this right now Freez Drive
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bus.com spreadsheet you'll be directed to this landing page simply click click
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here and then put your email address in and I will send you an automated email
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directly to you with the link and a tutorial on how to use the spreadsheet
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now I did a video earlier in 2023 that I used this spreadsheet I didn't have it available for a lot of people so now I
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do and today's video we're actually going to expand a couple of expenses because I left those out the last time
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I'm going to review those here shortly but once you do that you're going to have the spreadsheet and then you're going to have the template pulled up
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just like you're seeing right here and the key piece of this is it's your own template but it's not editable if you
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just keep it like this you need to go to file and then click on make a copy and
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then you're just going to name it whatever copy of your business so if we do ABC freeze
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dried business then we're going to make that a copy it's going to open up a
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brand new tab and then you can put in your own numbers and everything for your business but this template is very
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simplistic I'm not trying to be an Excel whiz here all you're going to do is you're going to put in your cost of
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whatever you're going to try to freeze dry then your bag cost label cost and then you're also going to put in
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whatever you produced out of that one cost of bags of Skittles or in my case the 11 cartons of the blueberries okay
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the rest of this I'll explain later now on the right hand side I've got just some some additional price fields that
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you can just kind of duplicate and copy I've already got formulas in these different cells so you don't
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really have to do anything and in this spreadsheet today I'm going to show you how to add a couple of different expenses that I think you're going to
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make the true cost of good sold for you so you can have a really good idea of what the cost will be to produce your
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product so let's go ahead and just eliminate actually the E through the I
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and I'm just highlighting e and then I'm pressing down shift on my keyboard and then we're just going to delete uh these
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columns just so it's a little bit cleaned up here okay and we'll delete
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this so this is maybe what your actual template should look like okay now we're going to change Taffy to blueberries and
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what we're going to calculate here is we're going to put in our cost of our blueberries now in my case I bought
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blueberries in an 18 o carton it was on sale and it was $2 it was
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$2.98 you can see the calculator here I bought 11 cartons of that remember in the video we did a full cycle of those
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11 cartons so I'm multiplying that by 11 oh 78 $32 78 cents there okay that's the
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true cost now we're going to add two additional types of expenses to this particular calculation those two
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expenses are going to be one your labor because if you're paying someone like an
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employee we need to put that cost in to produce the 50 bags of blueberries um or
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if you're going doing it yourself how much do you want to pay yourself okay okay then we'll figure out what the profit is per bag we actually got 65
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bags cuz I had a little bit left over in the video and um and so I actually got 65 bags out of the 11 cartons now what
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we're going to do here is I'm going to highlight the row for number six and I'm going to rightclick and say insert above
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another row we're going to do that twice okay because we need to put in our labor
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and we need to write in our rent for the kitchen in the pricing here my
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individual cost you see this formula here that I'm highlighting this formula right now is just calculating the cost
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overall cost of the product and then it's dividing that by the number of bangs that was produced for the product
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65 and then we're also subtracting the cost by 0.5 cents for or 5 cents for a
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bag and then 1 cent for uh the label okay so that's going to give us our individual cost so what we're going to
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do for our labor let's just say we're going to pay somebody $15 an hour and then we're also going to do the rent
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let's just say the rent to do that hour of Labor that I said that we did um
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was let's say it's $25 now the reason I'm saying it's an hour is because in
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the video I showed that I timed how long it took me to stamp and label I also
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know how long it kind of overall took me to process meaning poke the blueberries
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using the roller Berry tool if you want to watch that video you can I'll put that in the video description but that
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overall I'm saying about 15 minutes was there to actually package the bags and
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also put the labels in the stamps okay so not that labor intensive and then it was about 45 minutes collectively for me
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to do all the blueberries go to the grocery store that type of thing so I'm going to say it's about an hour to do 65
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bags so now we need to change the formula add another parenthesis this is just telling it that not only B3 is
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going to be included but we're also going to add the labor line and we're
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going to add the rent line now when you press return the formula is going to
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include B3 so our cost for the product it's going to include our labor and rent
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okay and now our individual cost is A1 six per bag okay so we haven't we we
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don't even need to do anything else that's what it costs right now to do those small tiny bags now what's going
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to change things is what we list the product as let's just say right now um
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I'm going to look at doing this at $4 a bag remember looking at different types
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of things that you purchase if you B them buy them in smaller quantities like a smaller bag it costs more than the
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larger bags volume plays into a big role so I'm going to charge $4 for that tiny
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bag but on the wholesale side typically what you're going to price your product at is about
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40% less than your retail price okay that's typically what I've seen most
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people who I wholesale to ask me or they um tell me that's mostly what they
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purchase through is probably upwards of 30 to 40% we're left over with a wholesale margin rate of 33% which is
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actually it's really good now if we change the list price to $3 then look check this out it drops by
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about 9% so you know you're going to be able to change this based on what you
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want to pay yourself let's maybe change our labor to $30 an hour cuz you know if
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I'm just doing it myself I know my what I would want to be paid and for that hour I want to be paid $30 an hour it
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dropped it down a little bit but not too much so I like having that $30 an hour
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there you could do it even upwards of40 an hour so maybe what that covers
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is two people doing this job packaging doing all that and you're paying them each $20 an hour this is kind of what
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you're needing to calculate very simplistically about your business I hope this is all making sense and you're
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having some fun kind of looking at this analysis this is what this spreadsheets all about all right now let's put this
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into more realistic terms for an order so if let's say she ordered 2,000 bags
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of those tiny bag samples now we actually have a great idea of what we're going to make and let's look at this in
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totality all right so let's do some calculations so now we're going to do equal sum and we're going to calculate
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2,000 bags multiplied by the $240 that we know we're going to offer
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them in wholesale rate which is $4,800 that's that's actually how much
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we're going to make okay so this is the product this is the gross sales for
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wholesale sale we know to get 2,000 bags how many cycles how many hours is that going to take us to get there because
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we've already got that figured out in this individual cost it's going to take 30 Cycles roughly for us to do all this
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multiplied by our $40 an hour we're going to pay ourselves $1,200 to do all
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this now there's still the work to be done but to pay yourself $1200 to do
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freeze-dried blueberries and then still have a profit on wholesale at A4 %
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markdown really not too bad so can you earn money with your freeze dryer yes you can and I just showed you how using
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some basic formulas on your pricing for your product as well as figuring out your labor and your wholesale rate all
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those different aspects are variables to how you want to run your business and I've given you the template for free if
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you haven't downloaded that yet go to the free Drive bus.com spreadsheet landing page and you can download that
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make a copy and make it for yourself a couple things one is you can do this as a side income you don't have to do this
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full-time you can test the waters and I believe you can make money because people that are in your local community
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are looking to support local businesses with different product sometimes you're just going to have a better relationship than other freeze dry companies you can
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still make a great living and remember it's about having a unique brand your tenacity to win and also understanding
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this industry because if you understand it more than other people who are just looking for the quick Buck you're going
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to understand what the power of the freeze dryer can do for different applications with different products and
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nonf food products as well and number two is I've interviewed multi-million dollar businesses who have taken freeze
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dry to the next level they're very Innovative with creating unique products I've also interviewed multiple
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freeze-dried candy businesses and even though they're freeze drying brand and Candy they've also developed their own
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candy as well it's really fun interesting and it's all through the frozen assets podcast series where I'm
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focusing on entrepreneurs in this freeze drying space so get inspired and see
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what they're doing and maybe you can roll out the same type of product yourself it takes work it takes you
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understanding the industry and also having the desire to win and building a really good brand that resonates with
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your audience if you want to know more about freeze drying check out those videos coming up next or follow this
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