Sewing For Success: A Home Based Business Opportunity Made Just Right
She felt that it would be hard to find a job that would allow for her to work from home. She wasn’t great with computers and she didn’t want to lick stamps or envelopes. She started to brainstorm what she was good at and what service she could provide for people. It hit her pretty quickly that she could start a sewing business from home and make some side money. Her mom was a seamstress and she had taught her daughter how to sew at a young age. Her mother had a talent that was evident in her daughter.
She spent many years saving her family money by putting together outfits and saving clothes that would have been lost due to being worn or torn. She would fix many of her husbands clothes and he would reward her with a kiss, something that was priceless to her. Now that was gone.
It was difficult for her to think about that, but now she knew that she had a responsibility to her two children and wanted to give them a great future. She began doing sewing for people in the neighborhood and at her local church. She soon had plenty of work to do. It was all word of mouth marketing, customer referrals. She told them that if they brought in another customer then she would give them a discount of some kind. This led to a host of clients for this mother of two. Now she had become overwhelmed with so many people pounding at her door.
She soon realized that she couldn’t do all of this work, but she didn’t want to lose any of this business. She started thinking, “I need to outsource!” So where was she going to get help and still make a profit. Two obvious thoughts came to mind in her two daughters. She persuaded them to help her and they agreed to do it. Soon the load grew faster and she needed more workers and she didn’t want to overwhelm her daughters during her teenage years. She wanted them to be happy. So she found other women in her church and neighborhood that were stay at home moms and started teaching them how to sew with such precision.
Now this lady has formed a company and has an very profitable LLC. She doesn’t need to work for anyone anymore. She runs a very tight ship and provides great value. Her daughters are happy and away at college (no debt) and she is able to live her life freely. She told me with a smile and a tear, “I know my husband would be proud of me. We always wanted something like this and I think somehow he had a hand in this.”
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I have sewn for 18 years for the public. I think this letter “sounds” great. I went through very similiar circumstances and gained customers the same way. However, the problem I and others encountered was work is not reliable enough in the off seasons to employ good help plus when you teach the girls to do it your way they end up saying hey why should I make this pittance when I can just do it for myself. They want to get paid by the hour, but since they are slow and inaccurate you are in the hole. When customers find out you are outsourcing they get very leary if not downright pissed off like you are some kind of opportunist. The best you can do is pay someone on disablity a little to assist here and there because they will not want to be discovered. There is no money to be made in sewing. I make no more now then I did 18 years ago because you can’t raise your prices, customers rarely tip and it take 3 times as long to do a sewing project compared to offering a haircut for the money and because clothes don’t grow like hair you have to have a huge customer base, which I have. It is not uncommon to see a client once a year or less. It is at the most a better than nothing job with no time to call your own.