I Speak'th The Business
I flip flop back and forth between my art, my writing, youtube creating (speaking) and business coaching. I have built my business around the multi-faceted entities that keep my business up and running and keep my audience interested in WHAT I AM DOING NEXT! Today's social media audience needs to be entertained as much as informed!
"Niching down", that is the buzz phrase now. Although it would make sense to a new entrepreneur who is just starting out to do just one thing that they are really good at til they are known for that one thing! But... I disagree! 100%
As an entrepreneur especially a creative-minded person, you are good at many things. Your gift or talent is more than just one thing. This widely differs from someone who studied one trade and they are ONLY focused on that one trade for the rest of their routine life to make a constricted living. That person works under a cap. They can only go so high on the pay scale because some BIG INDUSTRY has set the income margin. Now as a multi-faceted entrepreneur... creative type that fluctuates their income streams... there is no cap! She can make an unlimited amount of income because there is no ceiling on what someone deems marginally profitable!
Let just say for the sake of... If you work in retail and you LOVE to dress up! You love being in fashion and you are ok with touching pieces of clothing that the public has handled over and over and your tolerance for dealing with the indecisive fickle customer is worth your 10.00 an hr dead-end job; You can only make so much in a 40-hour workweek. The industry and labor board has deemed you can only make 400.00 a week minus what taxes they take out and your clothing expense because you have to LOOK THE PART! So I ask is that really a smart career move on your part if...
*You know style
*You know how to style someone/dress them accordingly
*You know trends and how to mix and match pieces
*You know how to SELL what looks good on someone
*You love to be an influencer and talk the fashion industry
*You know how to allow the customer to look good within their budget
*You know how to go into any store, online, resale, thrift, etc... and be a BUYER!
These things all in the makings of being your own CLOTHIER delving into many facets of an industry you love. Your creative eye for fashion has no cap on the dollar amount you could be making for yourself! The cost of one outfit you purchase you X 3 that cost and sell to your market. You speak your reasoning on your social media and write out the experience with pictures on your blog and then list the outfit on your website. Better yet you take on a client who needs to be styled you get to learn their needs and how the functional outfit best suits their occasion. Your creative eye now has your brain creatively thinking in fast forward motion the pieces you could be dressing your client in! all the while you are banking some good cha-ching! WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!
*Other things do need to be taken into consideration: storage for clothing, proper hanging, and display. Sizes, do you want to stick to a general size sm med and large or do you want to specialize in petit or plus size wear? How will you take payments? I always encourage bank accounts to keep business separate from personal. having a PayPal account attached to the 2nd account. I also suggest a NO Return policy. You are not a chain that has the luxury of returns. You are a specialized service with pieces hand-picked at a time, unlike big-box operations that buy by the 100's a piece!
Do you get the picture here? Are you seeing the versatility needed here? Artist, writer, creator, speaker... with the POTENTIAL of making more than what the industry and a labor board has deemed.
So now I hear you saying, I don't have the money to go out and buy pieces of clothing! I don't have space! Where am I suppose to find display pieces?
Now please don't get your panties in a bunch here, ok? but do you have a closet? Do you have pieces you know that have been in your closet for 2 years that have sat there? Do you have extra scarves, purses, belts etc... in your closet gently or not even worn? VIOLA sister!
Display pieces... Hangers! Backdrop... get a plain shower curtain get an extra shower rod! Go over your existing shower rod... hand the pieces on the plain curtain... take the picture (phone or camera) Get a lamp take the shade off for extra lighting. Look at the colors and the style, how would you describe, causal outerwear, formal work attire, etc... now, add some nice adjectives. Go to you favorite social media page and post. Create your own BUSINESS PAGE! etc etc etc... Congratulations!!!! You now have your own small entrepreneurial fashion endeavor!
You could take a whole weekend and start to piece together what you already have. Time is your best investment. Besides, you have been meaning to go thru that closet anyway! How you choose to invest your time and how you deem the hours you will need to put into your business will offer you the ability to make your income. As you get adjusted to selling your style and you have a few dollars from your clothes that you have sold, you then can branch out and start buying from other entities within the budget you have set up for yourself! Also ask your customers to take pictures of themselves in the outfits that they can send to you with a few NICE words on why they bought those pieces!!! Wham bam... thank you, ma'am!!! Come back again!
Once you deem a space in your house... find a corner. Dress up the walls! Allow those 2 walls to be your Store display then purchase a clothing rack from the FAMILY DOLLAR OR WALMART. Also, get yourself a manikin to dress up so you can take pictures. Your overnight success may take a year or 2 but if you do not start somewhere... you will remain in that 10.00 retail dead-end job!
If you would like to learn more about how you can start your own creative endeavor, BLOGGING BRANDING... LAUNCHING YOUR OWN LINE OF__________________! Book one of my Business coaching classes. St. Louis Mo area $90.00 for 2 hours or $55.00 1 hour online coaching (from anywhere) To inquire send me an email kitrynmarie@gmail.com to see my own line of graphic apparel go over to https://kmgraphicapparelandart.weebly.com If you are interested in purchasing from my cosmetic line that I sell please visit www.youravon.com/kitrynmarie.
I have given one of many different entities that you could be creating and starting. As an artist who has been selling her paintings and teaching the "ART' of turning my business into a teaching method has been my passion. Aligning my abilities with the services I provide has set forth my mission in speaking what has worked for me and many others! I teach how to have a LIFESTYLE meant for your highest good!
Be Happy Be Blessed!
Meet Me In St. Louis
Kitryn Marie
"Niching down", that is the buzz phrase now. Although it would make sense to a new entrepreneur who is just starting out to do just one thing that they are really good at til they are known for that one thing! But... I disagree! 100%
As an entrepreneur especially a creative-minded person, you are good at many things. Your gift or talent is more than just one thing. This widely differs from someone who studied one trade and they are ONLY focused on that one trade for the rest of their routine life to make a constricted living. That person works under a cap. They can only go so high on the pay scale because some BIG INDUSTRY has set the income margin. Now as a multi-faceted entrepreneur... creative type that fluctuates their income streams... there is no cap! She can make an unlimited amount of income because there is no ceiling on what someone deems marginally profitable!
Let just say for the sake of... If you work in retail and you LOVE to dress up! You love being in fashion and you are ok with touching pieces of clothing that the public has handled over and over and your tolerance for dealing with the indecisive fickle customer is worth your 10.00 an hr dead-end job; You can only make so much in a 40-hour workweek. The industry and labor board has deemed you can only make 400.00 a week minus what taxes they take out and your clothing expense because you have to LOOK THE PART! So I ask is that really a smart career move on your part if...
*You know style
*You know how to style someone/dress them accordingly
*You know trends and how to mix and match pieces
*You know how to SELL what looks good on someone
*You love to be an influencer and talk the fashion industry
*You know how to allow the customer to look good within their budget
*You know how to go into any store, online, resale, thrift, etc... and be a BUYER!
These things all in the makings of being your own CLOTHIER delving into many facets of an industry you love. Your creative eye for fashion has no cap on the dollar amount you could be making for yourself! The cost of one outfit you purchase you X 3 that cost and sell to your market. You speak your reasoning on your social media and write out the experience with pictures on your blog and then list the outfit on your website. Better yet you take on a client who needs to be styled you get to learn their needs and how the functional outfit best suits their occasion. Your creative eye now has your brain creatively thinking in fast forward motion the pieces you could be dressing your client in! all the while you are banking some good cha-ching! WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!
*Other things do need to be taken into consideration: storage for clothing, proper hanging, and display. Sizes, do you want to stick to a general size sm med and large or do you want to specialize in petit or plus size wear? How will you take payments? I always encourage bank accounts to keep business separate from personal. having a PayPal account attached to the 2nd account. I also suggest a NO Return policy. You are not a chain that has the luxury of returns. You are a specialized service with pieces hand-picked at a time, unlike big-box operations that buy by the 100's a piece!
Do you get the picture here? Are you seeing the versatility needed here? Artist, writer, creator, speaker... with the POTENTIAL of making more than what the industry and a labor board has deemed.
So now I hear you saying, I don't have the money to go out and buy pieces of clothing! I don't have space! Where am I suppose to find display pieces?
Now please don't get your panties in a bunch here, ok? but do you have a closet? Do you have pieces you know that have been in your closet for 2 years that have sat there? Do you have extra scarves, purses, belts etc... in your closet gently or not even worn? VIOLA sister!
Display pieces... Hangers! Backdrop... get a plain shower curtain get an extra shower rod! Go over your existing shower rod... hand the pieces on the plain curtain... take the picture (phone or camera) Get a lamp take the shade off for extra lighting. Look at the colors and the style, how would you describe, causal outerwear, formal work attire, etc... now, add some nice adjectives. Go to you favorite social media page and post. Create your own BUSINESS PAGE! etc etc etc... Congratulations!!!! You now have your own small entrepreneurial fashion endeavor!
You could take a whole weekend and start to piece together what you already have. Time is your best investment. Besides, you have been meaning to go thru that closet anyway! How you choose to invest your time and how you deem the hours you will need to put into your business will offer you the ability to make your income. As you get adjusted to selling your style and you have a few dollars from your clothes that you have sold, you then can branch out and start buying from other entities within the budget you have set up for yourself! Also ask your customers to take pictures of themselves in the outfits that they can send to you with a few NICE words on why they bought those pieces!!! Wham bam... thank you, ma'am!!! Come back again!
Once you deem a space in your house... find a corner. Dress up the walls! Allow those 2 walls to be your Store display then purchase a clothing rack from the FAMILY DOLLAR OR WALMART. Also, get yourself a manikin to dress up so you can take pictures. Your overnight success may take a year or 2 but if you do not start somewhere... you will remain in that 10.00 retail dead-end job!
If you would like to learn more about how you can start your own creative endeavor, BLOGGING BRANDING... LAUNCHING YOUR OWN LINE OF__________________! Book one of my Business coaching classes. St. Louis Mo area $90.00 for 2 hours or $55.00 1 hour online coaching (from anywhere) To inquire send me an email kitrynmarie@gmail.com to see my own line of graphic apparel go over to https://kmgraphicapparelandart.weebly.com If you are interested in purchasing from my cosmetic line that I sell please visit www.youravon.com/kitrynmarie.
I have given one of many different entities that you could be creating and starting. As an artist who has been selling her paintings and teaching the "ART' of turning my business into a teaching method has been my passion. Aligning my abilities with the services I provide has set forth my mission in speaking what has worked for me and many others! I teach how to have a LIFESTYLE meant for your highest good!
Be Happy Be Blessed!
Meet Me In St. Louis
Kitryn Marie
