Many of the workers commute for two to three hours a day and come home just to lie down and have no energy to work on their side businesses. The time of the baby was torn to pieces by the children, who wanted to do something and were afraid of getting into the water. The county owns a real store and looks at the online business and does not operate itself. Rural residents and zero-basics are even more confused and do not know where to start, afraid of being deceived and afraid of losing money。
I'm so familiar with these anxiety. There was too much talk of “100,000 a month”, so ordinary people stepped on the pit as soon as they entered. Today we talk about a business that has a special atmosphere, a very low risk and a daily cash flow — a community shop where clothing is sewn up. This business is not based on shambles, but on real crafts and community neighbours。
You may think it's the sunset industry. Who's gonna fix it now? The opposite is true, however, for many young people whose clothes are broken or whose pants have been bought require retrofitting, and for the elderly, the group of people who are in need of mending. As long as the location is right, the client is stable。
First case, community mom from second-line cities。
Her start-up funds were only $3,000 and she built a small shop in the garage on the first floor of her district. The main business is retrofitting the foot of a pair of pants, changing zippers, cracking holes, and nailing buttons. She only worked four to five hours a day because she had to pick up the baby. The average monthly rate is between 4,000 and 5,000, and the fixed monthly cost is $300 for garage rent. The monthly net profits can stabilize at around 3,500。
It's very obvious that the short board of the business is purely manual and physically tired. Long sittings of sewing make the cervical and waist vertebrae vulnerable. And it's clear that the seasons are cold, and it's hard to catch them in the new season, and it's usually smoother. Her greatest experience had been the addition of five owners, who had a demand for stitches and who had directly shouted in the group, and she came in to collect delivery and charged an extra three dollars for running legs。
In the second case, a 50-year-old sister from northern county。
She's been in the garment factory for 20 years, and she's doing a really good job. She rents a 10-square-metre shop near the county market and 600 monthly. In addition to regular stitching, she has also taken on such difficult tasks as the repair of leather clothes and the filling of holes in feathers. The total start-up investment was approximately $8,000, including sewing machines, locks and some accessories。
Her monthly average income is between 8,000 and 9,000, and the fixed cost plus $700 per month for water and electricity. The monthly net profit can be around 6500. But she's got eight to ten hours a day, much longer. The risk in this sector is that craftsmen have a long cycle of development and that the county city grounds are easy to saturate, and price wars begin when there are competitors around them。
One of her smartest moves is to work with a nearby dry cleaner. The dry cleaners received clothes that needed to be sewn and transferred directly to her, giving her 20 per cent return point to the dry cleaners. So she doesn't have to spend a penny promoting it, and she has a steady customer base every day。
In the third case, a young man from a front-line city, who did the online plus-down model。
He rents a five-square-metre small warehouse in the old neighborhood and a thousand a month. Orders are placed on the main line and channelled through idle fish and local living platforms. The client sent the clothes and he changed them and sent them back. A total of 12,000 was invested in the start-up, mainly for the purchase of two industrial sewing machines and packaging materials。
He received a monthly average of around 10,000, a fixed monthly cost plus a courier fee of about 2,000. The monthly net profit is at least 6,000. However, he spends more than 10 hours a day, as it takes time to film, respond to news, and package the shipment. The short board of this model is the high cost of couriers and is prone to disputes, such as claims by customers for damages。
He had found ways to break it down, for example by changing the foot of a high-end pair of jeans, or by changing the dress. It's expensive and competitive. He also sent a short video of each revision process, slowly accumulating tens of thousands of fans, and now many clients in the field are sending clothes on their own initiative。
If you want to do the business, i suggest you start with the lightest model. Let's not rent the shop, pick it up in our own house, spread it through the circle of friends and neighborhoods. Just a few hundred bucks for a home sewing machine. Practice first, change the pants of the neighbors, build up their work and make good comments。
When the list stabilizes, consider renting a cheap little bunk. The location must be in front of the large old neighborhood or next to the market. Such places are densely populated, with large numbers of elderly and housewives, and demand for tailoring is high. Rents are kept within 800, and more than a thousand are subject to caution。
For pricing purposes, retrofitting the foot of a pair of pants would normally be 10 to 15, 20 to 30 for a zipper, and cracking holes would be based on 5 to 20. Don't be too low-pricing, it's too low to make you feel bad. And it must be priced, stamped on the wall, and not peeled。
The greatest benefit of this business is that there is no pressure to hoard, no need to import and no risk of expiry. The biggest harm is the low ceiling, the one-man work, and the one-month net profit is hard to make. If you want to expand, you have to hire people, but they are prone to quality problems and reputational damage。
So my suggestion is to treat it as a stable supplementary income and not count on it to make a fortune。
You spend three or four hours a day making an extra $23,000 a month to supplement your family's expenses. Time is free without prejudice to taking children, working or caring for the elderly。
You might ask, "young people don't wear needles anymore." is this business going to last? Quite the contrary, it is because fewer and fewer people have the skills. As long as someone is dressed, there is a need for stitches. This business will never be eliminated. It's just a matter of earning more and less。
Finally, i'd like to ask you how long can you last if you spend three hours a day in front of a sewing machine? Is it boring to give up, or can you find the fun to make money
