Handmade leather industry, some friends are hobbies, and some friends are looking for business opportunities. Pure hobbies are the most enjoyable: adding tools and materials, designing and making them according to your own mood preferences, or appreciating or distributing them to friends after completion, enjoying yourself and getting some compliments from friends, making life interesting.
For friends who want to start a business, we have some suggestions:
The first step is to be a happy handmade leather artist.
First of all, let go of the mentality of being swayed by considerations of gain and loss, practice your skills well, look ahead before starting a business, take a step back as a hobby, and advance and retreat are good.
What we need to invest is several thousand yuan of tools and materials, including design style, printing, cutting, sewing and shaping. Advanced students can further study leather carving. Some leather artists specialize in scabbard and holster, some specialize in zippo suits, mobile phone bags and other small bags, some like to make personalized big bags, and some have unlimited creativity in leather decoration ... They can practice step by step with reference to the experience of their predecessors. When you make it beautiful, you can try to customize it for your friends, or find some small shops to sell your own works.
Step 2: Open a manual DIY booth.
Friends who want to start a business through hand-made leather arts can make a small investment and rent a booth or counter first.
There are three projects in operation:
(1) Leather artworks made on site;
2 DIY tools and materials for handmade leather goods, many consumers will have DIY ideas when they see handmade leather goods made on the spot;
③ Take some customized orders from consumers.
Generally speaking, the investment required to open a manual DIY booth includes:
① The tools and materials to be used are generally available, and some more professional tools can be added;
(2) As a tool material for commodity sales, a few attempts can be made in this respect. The consumption level in different regions is different. Just prepare thousands of dollars of goods first, find out the local consumption psychology and then increase it in a targeted way;
(3) booth rent.
Step 3: Open a handmade leather goods store.
After accumulating certain funds, popularity and confidence in the booth, you can safely open a handmade leather goods store.
According to the consumer groups of your products, rent a shop close to the consumer groups with low rent (the two are always contradictory, so you can only find a relative balance point), put your own finished products, DIY tools and materials, and do some personalized decoration, which is a handmade leather goods store with unique style. The choice of store location is the key. We must correctly judge who the consumer groups of our products are, where these people often go, and our stores must be accessible to the consumer groups.
Handmade leather goods are simple and full of vicissitudes, so it is very important to reflect this style in the decoration of the store.
The ultimate goal is to design, produce and sell their own brands. The current task is to introduce a better brand, hoping to let more people know and like it. The goal is to be your own brand!