
It has been almost two years since I’ve started my candle business and it has been everything I always wanted my business to be: exciting, hard work, fulfilling, and hard work.
Things have certainly changed since I first started. And I am always looking for ways to improve.
One of the biggest changes to my process is batch-making my candles for an entire month at one time instead of smaller batches each week. Based on data from previous months (and now year), I can anticipate how many of each fragrance I will sell for the upcoming month. With this data, I now produce that many candles (plus 5% more) at one time once per month instead of weekly, which has saved me a lot of time overall.
Continuous change based on data. This has served me quite well in 2023.