Is it a good job to get into, to open a website, and sell products with your brand name in it? Like shirts, hats, maybe snowboards, skateboards, and skis?
And some nice designs too?
Do people who make these get good profits?
Oh, and if I did, would it be good to buy some myself, and sell them to local stores for them to sell? How would I go about doing this?
Last edited by Mike; 24-01-10 at 02:49 AM.
Unless the website is HUGE and actually VERY well known, i don't see how you could even break even with the costs to make the products.
With a site like that you have to use about 90% of all income on advertising.
Most of these sites are "get rich quick" schemes.
Last edited by DaCheat; 24-01-10 at 09:50 AM.
So it would be a bad idea?
I'm thinking of just making cool designs that people would love, and added them onto products.
Like DaCheat said, You would need to advertise A Lot...
And If you want succes it must be cheaper than other places, else people don't want to buy....
Or just steal the design and get it thrown on a tshirt elsewhere. I think a better target would be to sell them yourself irl, their is a HUGE amount of competition online. Sure have a website too, but make it a case of you selling them at fairs or w/e with a small selection and give leaflets to the website with *more designs available!*...Originally Posted by Mike
Okay, I like to think I know alot about business models and how to start up, I do have qualifications yet nobody can give you the ONE way to be succesful.. But here's my advice, or rather, how I would go about it.
Start off with one product, for arguements sake lets use the example of T-Shirts. The most important thing you have to consider is your Capital, this is where most ideas faze out as people realise that they cannot afford to startup in the first place.
Here's a short list of things you need to spend your Capital on, rather the money you have to invest:
* T- shirts, in variety, as cheaply as possible but of good quality.
* Equipment, depends on which method you wish to use to make them.
* Advertising, how and where? you need to decide and calculate costs.
For aquiring these things I suggest you look in the direction of China etc. Hong Kong manufacturers are ideal for this sort of thing, and due to the massive economic boom in China there are more and more products coming from this region, and they have been mostly unaffected by an recession so pricing is very good.
As for actually selling your product, I suggest you find a local store that is relevant to your style.
You want to make a little bit of profit in the beginning, and it will take time, but eventually you can step up your selling to bigger things, such as an online store etc.
Do you basically want to get another company to make you these things with your design printed on them? Because there's not really any money in that. If you want to start your own brand you're going to need to make these things yourself (or more accurately employ people to make them for you while you sit around accumulating profits for doing virtually nothing. ahh, capitalism). Obviously to do this you're going to need capital, basically meaning tools and machinery as well as the actual skills required to use them.
Basically, fuck it, get into retail instead.
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