Sarah J. Doyle | March 8, 2010
MAYBE Spring is right around the corner! We’ve had such a long cold and wet winter here in the “sunny” south that I for one, am looking forward to some warmer weather.
Now is the time to get your business geared up for spring and summer sewing, and if I might add a note here — [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | March 1, 2010
There are a lot of reasons that people are looking at working “home” businesses, rather than the 9-5 rat race. Perhaps this economy is forcing many people to look for things to do from their home because of job layoffs and the cutback in their hours. Some people just want to do “their own thing” [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | February 15, 2010
Anybody who is in the sewing/crafting/alterations business would probably laugh at the title of this post. In the past I would have laughed as well.
Denise, over at ShopperStrategy has a post entitled “How To Make $100/Hour Clipping Coupons” that I found very interesting. Apparently the Wall Street Journal has an article written by Brett Arends [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 25, 2010
A few weeks ago I had a call from a lady who wanted information about our Profitable Clothing Alteration Business book. She told me she had been doing garment sewing, but that the sewing had been really slow so she was wanting to start taking in alterations. She said she needed more information about alterations [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 18, 2010
We talk so much about how to increase your profits, increasing your services and encouraging you to step “outside the box” to add those extra dollars so necessary in this drab economy.
Today I want to mention adding affiliates to your website or to your blog to generate income. Actually, once the affiliate “button” is added [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | January 8, 2010
Tina Schatzberg had left her career as an advertising sales executive to be a stay-at-home mom, however she still had a passion for marketing and wanted a more flexible means of pursuing that passion. When Schatzberg’s mother lost her job as a sewer for an automotive supplier in Detroit, the two decided to go into [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 6, 2010
As unemployment continues to skyrocket, every week there are more and more people losing their jobs, reaching the end of unemployment dollars or having their hours cut back so far they can no longer make ends meet. Now is the time to look into starting your own home business. There are many home businesses that [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | January 5, 2010
Denise Garlow is an out of work graphic artist from Atlanta who had been spending most of each day at the computer looking for employment and rewriting her resume. Then one day her daughter brought home a plate she had designed in Girl Scouts that had drawings of “colorful, mouse-like creatures with large saucer ears [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | January 4, 2010
Regardless of the type of sewing business you are in, there are always a number of ways you can increase your profits by increasing the services that you offer. Here are a few suggestions:
** If you do alterations, how about making a few assorted craft items from scraps of fabric you may have on hand. [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | December 17, 2009
Megan Woods, a stay at home mom with three children from Brookline, Massachusetts, was looking for something to do after her children started school. Then last year her mom sent her a pair of handcrafted mittens for Christmas and Woods convinced her mom to start up a business together.
Now Woods spends her time sifting through [...]
