Costume Design, Small Business Idea

Overview

A costume design business can be a one choice of your idea as a small business you can try, this business is the perfect entrepreneurial venture for people who love style and design. Money you can earn while you doing your hobby. You will like to sew and have a creative streak, this could be the home based business for you.  You can make costumes on demand from clients or develop your own designs and market them. This business is good in the metropolitan areas where events and social gatherings regularly occur, but if you have no enough place for that, never backward your dream, you can starting a costume design business by calls for passion and creativity.

This business is pretty lucrative. A costume design business basically involves creating costumes for occasions like Halloween and other festivities. Children are braver during a performance if they have a great costume.  Costumes are great for Halloween, birthday parties, recitals, and plays.  A custom made costume says quality, durability, and uniqueness. This might give you an impression that it’s a seasonal business but it definitely is not. What about birthday parties, parades, plays, musicals and dances.

Costumes for dance recitals and school plays can be created and sold as sets.  The buyer gets a deal on the costumes and you get their business.  For an additional expense, offer your services for alterations on the night of the play or recital in case there are fitting issues. 

Equipment

Material you require for your costume design business can be found at several place, flea markets, discount stores, yard sales, and consignment shops. In custom design, you will need some equipment, both materials and equipments are easy to be found in stores. Basic equipments you need are a sewing machine, hangers, clothing racks, sewing supplies, tables to work, along with equipment for the business end. But for more professional work, you will require Designing Tools, The equipment a clothing designer needs for this can be as simple as a sketch pad, a pencil and a few other drawing supplies like colored markers. Pattern Tools, Some choose to drape material, for which you may only need a sewing dummy, some pins and a pair of scissors. Others choose to cut out patterns, which entails the same tools as drapers along with pattern paper and a cutting table. Sewing Tools, A sewing machine with all the add-ons is needed as well as needles for the hand-sewn embellishments. You'll need to sew at least a few prototypes of the line to show potential buyers and other clients. And then, you have to get the required equipment. A sewing machine, hangers, clothing racks, sewing supplies, and tables to work are necessary and a computer and a printer. Marketing Tools, Your actual clothes will do most of the speaking when trying to gain new clients and buyers in fashion design. Additional Tools, you will need additional tools, such as computer software that you can utilize to do some of the work for you.

Not just for adult, costume designs are great for children. They fuel the imagination. Your business can grow as much or as little as you want. Explore your imagination to explode your business growing.

Starting

In a costume design business you have to know how to start and grow your business. Whether you live in a rural area with little or no events or in a bustling city with large theatre groups, there are ways to make a living from your trade. To be a good in your work, you need skills in. Creativity is the number one skill needed followed by sewing. And you also need to have an eye for the current trends so that you will sell interesting custome for most people. Materials are not cheap for a costume business. If you buy clothing from discount places, a starting inventory, equipment, and advertising can run by low cost as start up. You would fine a small business loan to allow you for the purchase of all items you need.

Costume designer needs to have creative skill and the imagination, for several purpose, people love bright colors so you will be using a lot of those. Knowledge of all events is not a must but it is highly recommended.  For example, Halloween costumes, learning what the current trends are will keep you from creating costumes that won’t sell.

There are some tips you can you use when you really in this business and want to start and grow your business: You'll improve your skills, by the time you will learn new design and your experience are will influence your business growing. Be Look Like a Professional, your potential customer will look you synonymous with a fashion designer, they will expect to you as expert in it. Make sure that you have good equipment to work with, never let your equipment pause your enjoyable activities in costume design when them meet trouble. These can you applied at the start of your costume design business. Find a mentor to help you develop your craft and navigate the pitfalls of working in this field.

Marketing

This is an important part of your business. A costume design business can grow through word-of-mouth marketing and is also easily marketed with simple flyers and business cards.  Offer your own personalized costume designs to your potential customer away with details in. If they’re happy with your finished product, they can be your best marketing tool.
You might consider a website that enables potential customers to browse your inventory and make purchases. Consider giving a few free samples your family, close friend, or other potential customer, such in events and other where parties are held so that potential customers can see your products. You can also throw your own party and give out a costume design with your business name on it, so your product do its own advertising. 

There are several way to promote and selling Your costume design:

1. Make samples you can give away to potential clients such on brochures. Make sure you have your business contact information on them. Local shops and stores are usually happy to allow you to place products in their store for sale. Flyers should be placed in places where plays are possible. This includes churches, daycare centers, and after school centers and any other events. 

2. Ads in local newspapers that cater to stay-at-home mothers or parents in general can generate more business.

3. make some attractive business cards and brochures. Look for potential client opportunities, includes school meetings and events, social get-togethers, reunions, parties and so on.

4. Look for potential business opportunities selling. include birthday parties, high school and family reunions, corporate picnics or meetings, anniversary parties, and so on

5. let party and event planners know about your business and the products you offer. 

6. Place your products for sale in an online store. 

eBay can be a tool for as your marketing to showcase and sell costume designs and groups of costumes, this will more worldwide your customer.

Money you can earn from Costume design business is depend on your quantity and quality of product selling, and depending on how many the client orders. For very small orders, you might consider charging the client an artwork set up fee. If the customer is going to place a large quantity order, you'll want to give them a lower bar price. When your order is ready for shipping, you will want to pack your costume design carefully so that it doesn’t break, or become damaged in route.

Expand

By the time, when experience you hold as professional in costume design, you can try to expand your business related to costume design. There are several kinds of business you can choose, one of them are t-shirt business. It look will not required high cost as start up, and even you can combine your old business with t-shirt business. You can hire a professional in t-shit making. There are many resource you can use to be success in both business, but however, never you let to step on t-shirt or new business else if you not held yet your costume design. So, make sure you are really can operate your costume design before you try the another as your side business.