Market Opportunities, Sewing, Making Up, Making Money.

Picking up some bits and pieces of work that others are unwilling to do may be a small business.

Business picked up

In Shenzhen, many people call these "trouser shops" which provide trousers and zippers.

Miss Chen, who runs this "sewing shop" in the Jiahua wholesale clothing market in Huaqiang North, said happily when she talked about her small shop: "as long as you have good skills and patience, this kind of work is easy to do."

Miss Chen is a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong. Before she came to Shenzhen, she worked in a garment factory in her hometown for 10 years and mastered skilled sewing techniques.

Last November, relatives of shops in Huaqiang North Jiahua wholesale market in Shenzhen invited her to come over to sell clothes.

However, after careful observation, Miss Chen feels that it costs at least forty thousand or fifty thousand yuan to open a clothing store in this place, the cost is too high, and the competition is fierce.

On the contrary, although the clothing market is fashionable in style, almost all are European costumes. Customers often ask the store to provide modification services after they buy clothes.

But there are few shops in the market for shortening trouser legs and changing large sizes.

The shortage of market is business opportunity.

Miss Chen, who has skilled cutting techniques, decided to go back to her old business and set up a shop that specializes in changing clothes for customers.

The investment is only four thousand or five thousand yuan.

In Miss Chen's small shop less than 4 square meters, there is a pure electric sewing machine and a sewing machine. There is also a side pick machine, an iron, and a ironing board with a 1 meter square. It costs only four thousand or five thousand yuan for all the family.

For this equipment, Miss Chen, who is familiar with the clothes making machine, has her own purchasing experience.

She said that many small trouser shops in the market are sewing machines that use feet. They prefer to buy thousands of yuan for a pure electric sewing machine, not only because it is more convenient than manual, but also the stitching of electric sewing machines is more careful when the edge is pressed, and the handwork made is more bright.

In order to save money, the electric sewing machine and the sewing machine are all second-hand goods from Miss Chen, which seems to have 70% new ones.

However, the professional iron on one side was bought by Miss Chen for over 200 yuan, because the new iron was enough to make the clothes irregularly pressed.

She told reporters that because this is a small business that pays attention to handicrafts, the collocation of new and old equipment is very important in purchasing.

Good workmen can bring visitors.

The small sewing shop, which has only opened for more than half a year, has begun to move on the right track.

During the interview for more than one hour, Miss Chen almost had no leisure.

However, like most new stores, Miss Chen's shop has gone through a cold business when she first started.

"In fact, this business is to attract customers by craft, you think, guests take clothes to change, must be very like this dress.

If guests feel that the clothes that have been changed conform to their requirements and work fine, they naturally generate trust and often come to patronize them.

Miss Chen introduced her business experience to reporters.

This trouser leg looks small, but it is also a knowledge in Miss Chen's eyes.

In her opinion, it is not so easy to make customers satisfied. In addition to handcrafts, patience and service attitude are also important. At the same time, we should also try to understand the intentions of guests.

Some customers need to modify many places, she carefully observe the shape of the guests, understand the guests' thoughts, each needle is very careful, otherwise the clothes will be out of shape.

For example, once, a customer took a washcloth and asked for a change. The trousers were added with cotton, and the trouser legs were full of zippers. The modification was very difficult.

At first, Miss Chen did not know where to start, but after an afternoon's thought, she finally finished the demolition and sewing. After seeing the customer, she praised her skill well, and later became her frequent visitor.

Besides, the frequent customers in Miss Chen's shop say that the price here is fair.

According to the introduction, changing the trouser legs here only needs 3 yuan, and 10 yuan can change the waist.

Alliance store expansion

Apart from doing business with regular customers and some individual customers, it is also one of the secrets of Miss Chen's operation to develop the source of her boutiques.

It is understood that at present, in her small shop, nearly 60% of the business comes from the "modified trouser legs" of the shops around the monopoly jeans. Miss Chen said it was a chance that she saw business opportunities.

Because there are many jeans sold in many stores around the world, many jeans are worn by the customers when they are tried.

Once, in a woman's world, a store employee took a pair of jeans from her guests to make her change. After that, she thought her handwork was good, fast, and the price was fair, so the two sides reached an agreement. The store put all the guests' unfitting trousers to Miss Chen's sewing shop to change them, and unified their accounts once a month.

Clever Miss Chen immediately contacted some of the jeans stores around the world and reached a long-term cooperation agreement.

It seems that business is of no size. If we think carefully, we can always get out of a way to make a living.

Now, Miss Chen has a monthly income of several thousand yuan.