The advice of many business trainers revolves around the same thought. Coaches recommend that people build a business precisely on the basis of their hobby and any hobby. The essence of the thought is simple: a beloved business will not be bored, and work will bring not only income, but also pleasure. One Briton decided to take advantage of this recommendation and turned his passion for historical costumes into a business.
Background
Now Mac Leod Pinsent is only 25 years old. For several years now, a guy from Brighton has not worn any modern clothes. The passion for fashion of past centuries arose in him as a child. In an interview with reporters, a novice businessman said that as a teenager he literally hated all modern things. Of course, to buy clothes that repeat the fashion of past eras was very problematic. Therefore, Mac began to gradually master sewing. At the age of 14, the future businessman solemnly promised himself never to wear any modern things again and burned his last pair of jeans.
Reaction
Sewing historical costumes for yourself was much easier than getting used to the surprised and even slanting looks of passers-by. At first, Mack was quite worried about this. However, then the opinion of strangers became indifferent to him. Mac Leod himself notes that clothes of past eras help him to feel much more confident and attractive. That is why the guy, in principle, stopped looking for any kind of approval from the environment.
Start a business
Gradually, interest in old clothes increased among his friends. As a result, they became his first customers. After several successful deals, Mac Leod Pinsent decided to expand his own business. The guy placed ads for sewing historical costumes to order and began to wait for new customers.
The working process
A quick start in his case did not work. Clients were rare, but Mac did not lose heart and continued to improve his skills. After a while, the guy launched his own website and began to collect orders from all over Britain. Later, people from other countries joined his clients. In an interview with the press, a novice businessman admitted that now he works with almost the whole world. Many orders come from the USA, countries of continental Europe and Asia. Mack notes that making costumes without trying on and accurately taking measurements is very difficult. However, there are no dissatisfied customers in his track record yet.
Plans
Bad is the soldier who does not want to become a general. This common saying can be applied to novice businessmen. Mac has long created his own business expansion plan. Now the guy works exclusively at home. However, in the near future he plans to rent a room and organize his own studio in it. It is on this dream that he puts aside almost all the profit received from sewing historical costumes.
During the interview, the journalists asked about the possibility of expanding the assortment. The novice businessman replied that so far he had no plans to make any modern costumes. Mack is fully focused on the production of clothing of past eras and is not going to change direction. Moreover, the guy noted that the demand for clothes is growing, though not quickly, but stably. From year to year, the number of its customers is gradually increasing. Moreover, many new customers come according to the recommendations and advice of the old.
Instead of totals
As you can see, even a very non-standard hobby can be easily turned into a profitable, and most importantly, quite promising business. Mac Leod Pinsent managed to monetize his passion.Now he continues to actively develop his own business and does not want to stop there.