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50% off ALL Business Books!

February 9, 2016 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

Get your year (and finances) off to a great start!  You can start a new business or kick your current business into high gear with this big sale.  No coupon code required – all business books are already discounted.  Sale ends Friday, February 26.

Check out some or all of the following business books, load your cart and the downloadable books will be available immediately upon payment.

  • Sewing Machine Repair As A Home Business
  • Profitable Clothing Alteration Business
  • Sewing For Plus Size Children As A Home Business
  • Sewing For Full Figure Women As A Home Business
  • Sewing With Leather As A Home Business
  • Sewing Machine Embroidery As A Home Business
  • How To Sell Your Handmade Items
  • 501 Tips and Strategies For Home Business Entrepreneurs
  • Jumpstart Your Business With Proven Techniques

Each business manual has all the information you need to start that particular business.  If you or someone you know needs some extra cash, you’re at the right place to get started.

In the “Jumpstart Your Business” book, one chapter alone “Free Advertising…Yours For The Asking” (a case study) can give you $10,000+ worth of advertising for the price of a stamp and envelope. Follow our success strategy and be on the road to financial freedom!

If you are into crafts and make items that everyone would LOVE to have, the “How To Sell Your Handmade Items” will give you specifics on where you can sell them online – and I’ll bet we know some hot spots you haven’t heard of before!

This sale is only through Friday, Feb 26 – no coupon code required!

Do You Sew Mostly For Plus Size Women or Plus Size Children?

August 20, 2012 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

There are many articles regarding the statistics concerning overweight/obese children, as well as the numbers of full figure/plus size women (adults actually – not just women). We’re wondering if you who are in a sewing / alteration business actually do MORE sewing for the overweight children category or plus size women.

While I would venture to say that regardless of which category you go with, there are enough potential clients to keep you busy. As you spread the word about your business, you will see a steady increase in customers. Flyers in a fabric store, small classified ad in your local newspaper or mini flyers in every “local” bill you pay (local gas bill, water bill, power bill, etc), will certainly increase your customers as well.

In the near future we will be doing some tutorial type posts for working with these two categories of customers, and we just want to get a feel of who you all are sewing for, so we can concentrate on what the majority of our readers need.

We have three websites you can look at to see the types of information we have available already to help make it easier to sew for those truly hard to fit individuals. These sites are BigBeautifulPeople.com, (for big/tall men and full figure/plus size women), PatternsThatFitYou.com, (for men, women and children) and PlusSizeChildren.com (for overweight/obese children).

You can see our tutorial post about making a custom skirt for plus size girls using their own personal measurements: http://sewingbusiness.com/2012/07/26/how-to-make-a-custom-fitted-skirt-for-an-overweightobese-child.aspx — and we’re planning to add more of the tutorial type posts to help answer your questions about sewing for overweight and plus size people.

SUNSATIONAL SUMMER SALE!

June 20, 2012 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

Today is the first day of summer, and we can’t wait to announce our Sunsational Summer Sale at PatternsThatFitYou.com.  You can get a WHOPPING 20% off your entire order — AND that includes our Value Packs that include over $50.00 worth of current “off the shelf” sewing notions, interfacings, elastics, thread and much more for only $19.95.   With the 20% discount, you’ll be getting the Value Pack for $15.96.  WOW!  $50.00 + worth of sewing supplies for $15.96 — you just can’t beat a deal like that.  Use the promo code SUMMER when checking out to get the  20% discount.

PatternsThatFitYou has a wide variety of sewing, crafting and pattern making books, classes and patterns.  We specialize in patterns and classes for Plus Size Children, Full Figure / Plus Size Women and Big/Tall Men, in addition to many sewing and crafting books for your sewing library.

If you’re looking for sewing machine, serger and/or treadle sewing machine repair books, visit the SewMachineRepair website.

How To Expand Your Market With Additional Products

March 21, 2012 by Sarah J. Doyle 1 Comment

Think about all the items that you make to sell online or at bazaars / craft fairs.   Have you kept track of what the best sellers are?  By knowing which items sell the best you can expand your market by making other similar items.  For example, if you make stuffed toys, you might think about making the most popular ones in a variety of sizes and different fabrics.

If you make and sell teenage type pillows, try adding some toddler pillows or additional “girly” type heart pillows.  A variety of additional items added to your current selection can be a great money maker for you.

As an additional example, we originally started selling a basic book on pattern making for women.  Then a few years later, because of a granddaughter that was very overweight, our plus size children pattern making classes and patterns was started.  The addition and popularity of the plus size children pattern making classes and patterns led to questions from customers if we had anything like that for plus size / full figure women.  TA DA!  The next thing in line for us was exactly what the customers were asking for, which began a whole new area of pattern making classes, which we set up as BigBeautifulPeople.

Listen to your customers talk when you’re at the craft fairs —- is there something specific that they’re looking for that you could add to your inventory?  Expanding your market with additional products can add more than you think to your profit margin.  Since you’re doing the craft fairs or Etsy selling, you’re already doing the motions of making items, so think “outside the box” and see what else you can add.

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