How to make money if you can’t go to work? How to open a business without a large start-up capital? One option: start sewing at home. The business of tailoring aprons, dressing gowns, souvenir pillowcases does not require large investments, but it brings tangible income.
Work at home or your own workshop?
Of course, the productivity of the workshop is much higher. However, this does not mean at all that the profitability of the workshop will be as high. This is easily understood by anyone who tries to draw up a business plan for sewing aprons.
In addition to the cost of purchasing supplies, you will have to spend money on renting a room, purchasing equipment, paying for electricity and utilities.
Before the opening of the workshop, many agreements will have to be concluded and it will not receive permission. In order to sew aprons, aprons, dressing gowns at home, it is enough to equip the workplace at the table.
You can sew at any convenient time, and the volume of production can be increased or decreased, focusing on demand. A home-based business allows you to check without costly how profitably the chosen business, as well as which apron models and which colors are in demand.
Such work does not require a huge start-up capital: it is enough to purchase supplies. Salary will depend solely on the goods sold. The resulting profit can be spent at one’s own discretion, spent on the optimization of production or its expansion.
Why exactly aprons?
The apron tailoring business is a great starting point for starting your own business.
- Aprons are sewn relatively easily, even a novice seamstress will cope with the work.
- Designer aprons in stores are a rarity. Finding a place for their retail sales or finding wholesale buyers is easy. Designer aprons are a success: they are bought by housewives. Aprons are a great souvenir.
- Trimming and leftover fabric will help optimize your apron tailoring business. Of these, you can make jewelry for the same aprons (flowers or applications), sew hats (scarves or caps), and tacks. With the right approach, production can become waste-free.
- Aprons have no sizes, so it’s enough to develop two or three patterns to sew smart aprons for housewives of any complexion.
The cost of one product can vary from 150 rubles to infinity: it all depends on the quality of the fabric, the characteristics of the fittings, etc. How expensive can an apron sewn at home be? So much as to be accessible even to middle-class housewives. Models and styles for tailoring aprons can be taken from movies (for example, from the series “Desperate Housewives”), invented by yourself, or “licked” from special magazines.
Is the workshop better?
If someone decides to make the apron tailoring business his main income, then before you get down to business, you should study consumer demand. The volume of production, methods of selling products will depend on it. It is worth walking around your city, offering product samples to shops selling textiles or souvenirs, sellers on the market, wholesale buyers of woven products.
One of the most profitable types of trading today is online shopping. Designer aprons can be put up for sale on social networks, distributed using free bulletin boards.In any case, you need to think about implementation already at the moment when the idea came to mind to make money on aprons.
How to open your workshop?
The procedure is simple and not much different from opening any other business of your own. As soon as the analysis shows that the business of tailoring aprons is in demand in this city (region, territory, etc.), they make up a business plan. Like any other, it must take into account all types of expenses and income. The first section of the plan fixes what documents are needed, how much it will cost to complete them. Will need to collect:
- Lease agreement.
- Permits of Rospotrebnadzor and State Surveillance.
- Documents confirming the correct connection of electricity.
- Waste Disposal Contracts, sanitization premises, security, etc.
- Documents confirming the opening of an account.
Registration of all these documents costs money: you have to pay a state duty.
First expenses, then incomes
The apron tailoring business, like any other, requires a certain starting capital. What expenses await at the very beginning? The second section of the business plan should be devoted to this. It is recommended to consider:
- State duty for paperwork (the first section indicates which ones).
- The amount required to purchase or rent a room.
- Money for the acquisition of the first batch of fabric, accessories, other consumables.
- The capital required for the purchase of equipment: machines, steam generators or irons, lighting, computers for accounting and administration, coolers with drinking water and so on.
- The amount needed to purchase furniture (chairs, tables for the administration, lockers for clothes of employees, etc.).
- Means for the purchase of packaging (from souvenir bags to cardboard boxes).
- Money for advertising, searching or opening points of sale.
The cost of employees, utility bills and other monthly expenses will be included in the third section of the business plan. The workshop can be opened only when the planned revenues exceed all types of expenses.
"Sewing" subtleties
- The apron tailoring workshop cannot do without its own designer.
- Products should be manufactured taking into account the different financial capabilities of consumers.
- It is not recommended to save on advertising.
- Costs pay off faster if the equipment works without downtime, around the clock.
- For work at home, the initial spending may be limited to 1-50 thousand rubles. At least 400,000 will be required to open a workshop.
The apron tailoring business, provided it is properly organized, can be the initial step before opening a large-volume, wide assortment of sewing production.
