How to Run a Successful Sewing and Alterations Business from Home


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Easily earn up to $1,000+ a month part time, and potentially $2-3-4,000 per month full time offering your clothing alterations expertise to your local community.You're a champion sewist. It's been a labor of love acquiring this much sewing skill over the years. On a scale of 1-10, you consider yourself to be an 8, 9 or 10, don't you. Zero to few people around you are as skilled as you are. You've even begun to accomplish - or already have nailed - the art of garment alterations. You've reached the pinnacle. So now what?Maybe it's time to put yourself out there and get paid for serving the public with your sewing skill.Does that idea cause you to nod your head in agreement?Or maybe you're already in demand and have been giving your services away. Maybe that's been OK until recently when the conversations you have with yourself in your head and discussions with your immediate support system of family and friends have explored getting paid for a service people are clamoring for.What if all your sewing experience has led you to this point of making an important decision to add income to your household by sewing at home for people who stream to your studio?Wouldn't that be exciting?It certainly could be. Especially when you can quickly learn the ins and outs, the ups and downs, the pride and pitfalls of running a business from home with the contents of this book.Nowhere that I can find is there a collection of information about how to run the specific business of garment alterations from home as comprehensive as the pages in this book. Because people experience a unique love affair with clothing unlike other possessions, you need to be informed about how to conduct business with people and the subject of perfecting the fit of their clothing.What you will not find in this book are the specific techniques for doing alterations. For that kind of information, you can find comprehensive video tutorials on my huge YouTube channel. Simply search for Alterations by Phyllis and learn the art from scratch or refresh your existing skills.What you will find in this book is everything else it takes to run your sewing and alterations business from home - including the exact order in which to set up your business step by step, how much money you can make, business plan, business entity formation, bookkeeping and taxes, how to prevail alongside the competition, skills assessment, policy suggestions and tools of the trade - plus many juicy stories about my personal experience. An easy 129 page ready, you can explore this world and check it all out for yourself to see if it's a mach and/or inspirational to your desires before you take the leap.That's why I wrote the book. Because we're super hero sewists, you and I. The world calls and we go out to meet the demand. Or, if you design your desire to meet that demand just right, you can bring them all on home!You decide. Good luck!Phyllis SmithAlterations by Phyllis




How To Start A Sewing Business


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You can start a small business by taking advantage of your sewing skills. By offering services, such as clothing repair, custom tailoring, and button replacement, you can create a steady income with a business that has returning customers. You have the choice of starting as a home-based business or setting up a shop in a retail location. Your success will depend on the quality of your marketing and customer service, as well as the quality of your work. What you will find in this revised edition is everything else it takes to run your sewing and alterations business from home including business setup step-by-step in exact order, bookkeeping, taxes, business plan, business entity formation, policies to consider, skills assessment, how to prevail alongside the competition, tools of the trade, HOW MUCH MONEY you can make PLUS many juicy stories about my personal experience. An easy 100 page read you can explore this world and check it all out for yourself to see if it's a match and/or inspirational to your desires before you leap.




How to Start and Operate a Profitable Clothing Alteration Business


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Make $30,000, $40,000 and more per year doing clothing alterations! Do you love sewing? Do you need a little extra money? Or a LOT of extra money? Would you like to stay home with the children instead of working a 9 to 5 job? Would you like to be in control of your own time? Does financial independence sound exciting to you? How about a new car? Would you like to take a "real" vacation this year? Clothing alterations could be your answer! A lifetime of success can be yours simply by turning your sewing abilities in a profit making direction. Your success is closer than you may think! There are people everywhere in NEED of the service you can provide! Who would be your customers? Teachers, secretaries, doctors, dentists, friends, neighbors, sales people - nearly EVERYONE in your town would be a potential customer. We'll show you how to contact them and how to get them to refer you to all of their friends and co-workers. Turning your sewing hobby into a money making business can be done with VERY LITTLE money up front. In fact, we'll show you how to get started with NO up-front money! We've even included a whole NEW section on special services YOU can provide, that no one else in town has even thought of! You'll be the ONLY one offering these services, and your excited and happy customers will be back on a regular basis, and they'll be telling their friends about your work! "How To Start and Operate A Profitable Clothing Alteration Business" is a COMPLETE MANUAL for your part time or full time alterations business. Virtually ANYONE can be a success in this business if they make up their mind to do it and start TODAY! "How to Start and Operate A Profitable Clothing Alteration Business" includes: -How to start your business -How to price your alterations -How to get customers and KEEP THEM -SPECIAL services you can offer that nobody else offers! -SAVE your customers many $$$ by offering THIS additional service -How to get FREE advertising for your business -How to keep records of customers -How and where to advertise -How to set YOUR OWN HOURS -How to achieve a professional image -Sample advertisements, forms & customer record sheets -Where you can get thread and notions at WHOLESALE PRICES! If you follow the easy-to-understand step-by-step instructions and advice given throughout this golden opportunity manual, you can have your clothing alteration business "up and running" within a few days! All you need are a sewing machine and your sewing ability and PRESTO! you're ready for business. You do not need a lot of money to become a success in this business - just sewing ability and a willingness to follow the instructions in this complete manual.




Sewing as a Home Business -OS


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Exactly how to Achieve Home Sewing Business Success During & After COVID-19 - Diversify


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With over 30 years' experience operating a thriving alternations business from home, I bring specialized info as to how to run an alternations business from home. There is the generalized category of sewing, then the sub-specialty of doing your own alterations, and finally the sub-sub-specialty of running a business performing surgery on other people's clothing. One of the easiest home businesses to set up and run if you sew well, enjoy finding out that you no longer need to ignore your sewing machine as you walk by it each day on your way to an unfulfilling job. Work from home sewing for others as an alterations specialist including selling your special range of fiber artistry, and people will find you. Word of mouth spreads like wildfire, and you will not need to advertise, although you will want to utilize social media to the fullest. Since there are fewer alterations specialists than can support the demand, you could become blazingly successful. Run your own show and never look back. --Adapted from book cover.




Start A Clothing Alterations Business


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Taking your clothes to a great tailor is the best way to make any outfit look professional and polished. However, with patience, a measuring tool, and a sewing machine, you can tailor your own clothes from the comfort of your home. This book offers ideas and guidance for the adding of tailoring related products and services that will enable the business to realize its full potential as a full-service alteration and custom tailoring center. The book will help business owners to develop multiple streams of profit as their businesses begin to grow and they uncover the actual needs of the community they serve. This book has the tools for new start-ups and is ideal for established businesses that need new innovative, out-of-the-box ideas to crush their competition. This book will put you on an accelerated path to increase revenues, decrease expenses, and create more equity. The book can also be a comprehensive source of marketing tips and creative differentiation strategies to make it possible to generate more revenues in areas with the less head-to-head competition.




Sew Over It


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Expert crafter, Lisa Comfort shares the secrets of her sewing passion. She guides you through all the basics of sewing by hand and machine, as well as providing you with the skills you need to follow her simple but stylish projects.




Create Sewing And Alteration Business


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Taking your clothes to a great tailor is the best way to make any outfit look professional and polished. However, with patience, a measuring tool, and a sewing machine, you can tailor your own clothes from the comfort of your home. This book offers ideas and guidance for the adding of tailoring related products and services that will enable the business to realize its full potential as a full-service alteration and custom tailoring center. The book will help business owners to develop multiple streams of profit as their businesses begin to grow and they uncover the actual needs of the community they serve. This book has the tools for new start-ups and is ideal for established businesses that need new innovative, out-of-the-box ideas to crush their competition. This book will put you on an accelerated path to increase revenues, decrease expenses, and create more equity. The book can also be a comprehensive source of marketing tips and creative differentiation strategies to make it possible to generate more revenues in areas with the less head-to-head competition.




Strategies For A Sewing And Alteration Business


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Taking your clothes to a great tailor is the best way to make any outfit look professional and polished. However, with patience, a measuring tool, and a sewing machine, you can tailor your own clothes from the comfort of your home. This book offers ideas and guidance for the adding of tailoring related products and services that will enable the business to realize its full potential as a full-service alteration and custom tailoring center. The book will help business owners to develop multiple streams of profit as their businesses begin to grow and they uncover the actual needs of the community they serve. This book has the tools for new start-ups and is ideal for established businesses that need new innovative, out-of-the-box ideas to crush their competition. This book will put you on an accelerated path to increase revenues, decrease expenses, and create more equity. The book can also be a comprehensive source of marketing tips and creative differentiation strategies to make it possible to generate more revenues in areas with the less head-to-head competition.




Sew Your Own Wardrobe


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This is your complete guide to dressmaking, from designing, creating, and customizing your clothes. Master every dressmaking technique in the book! Fully illustrated and easy to use, this dressmaking book covers all the essential skills and techniques you need to make timeless wardrobe staples. It's a must-have for beginners and expert stitchers alike. Fed up with fast fashion and keen to make your own clothes? This is the ultimate dressmaking guide for absolute beginners. Comprehensive, step-by-step guides and dressmaking patterns cover everything from choosing the perfect fabric for any project to trying your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques. Inside the pages of this sewing book you’ll discover: • Step-by-step instructions and techniques, accompanied by clear, full-color photography • Thorough sections on tools and equipment, to help the reader choose the right items for each project • 13 downloadable patterns for skirts, dresses, trousers, tops, and jackets that can be used to create 31 different garments • Over 80 techniques, including how to cut out a pattern, machine stitch, and hand stitch Accompanied by close-up photographs, clear instructions, and a glossary of dressmaking terminology to demystify even the trickiest technique. This book will help you advance from a sewing learner to a seasoned stitcher in no time. Zoomed-in photographs of hand and machine tools show you the best dressmaking equipment for the job and teach you exactly how to use it. All the techniques and projects are graded by difficulty level, from the simple and straightforward to the more complex and challenging ones. Put your new-found knowledge to the test with 13 downloadable patterns that can be easily adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments. Learn how to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside creative ideas for giving your old clothes new life! The Essential Guide to Dressmaking Sew Your Own Wardrobe guides you through every hand stitch, machine stitch, and sewing technique you'll ever need. We've included the best way to stitch, alter, put in linings, seam and hem, so you can make your favorite bespoke outfits to suit your unique style.