ForumsStarting a Business

• Easy to sort out the family clothing
• Sew the personal woven label on your handmade knitting.
• (e.g.. cloths, handbags, uniform etc)
• Strong your company and brand image
• Create you custom labels like no others

I recommend that you start with defining your USP (unique selling proposition), doing market research and developing your business plan.

I know that this all can sound very generic, so instead of going into lengthy details on each, I am going to include a couple of links to explain what I am talking about.

Finding Your USP:

http://thesologuide.com/1230/finding-your-usp/

How will you differentiate yourself and draw customers to you when they have numerous options for buying clothes? You need to make sure that you have a well defined USP. And don't try to create clothes for the everyone market. You need to make sure that you determine the niche that you will service that combines your experience, strengths and passion. Wal-Mart, Dillard's, Macy's, Target, etc... has a far bigger budget for servicing the everyone market. Don't try to play the game of a Goliath when you are starting out as a David. There are advantages to being a small business if you take the time to research and plan your business well.

Here is a link to my Planning page giving info on how to develop a business plan:

http://thesologuide.com/planning/

Here is a link to my Research page discussing how to go about gathering appropriate market research to help define your USP and Business plan:

http://thesologuide.com/research/

Please let me know what questions you have after reviewing this.

Joe, thanks for the compliments and recommendation. BTW, Rymed2008, Joseph (phanio) is a great person to go to for funding information.

Hope this helps.

Doug Dolan

The Solopreneur's Guide

http://thesologuide.com/