Diligent Girl Brings New Business Opportunities With Handmade Cloth Art

Night market "training" to earn the first barrel of gold

Chen Xueyi, a native of Jingmen, Hubei, came to Wuhan to visit relatives in 2004 after graduating from a vocational school in Hanzheng Street.

Unfortunately, second years after Chen Xueyi worked in a relative's family, she had a serious illness. She had to put her hands down and go home to rest.

Chen Xueyi studied clothing at school.

Once, when Chen Xueyi was shopping in the night market in Hankou, she found that some exquisite ornaments were selling well in Hanzheng Street. She was a girl herself. She usually liked these fancy accessories. Most importantly, the investment did not need to be very high. So Chen asked her relatives to find out that there were many shopping channels near Hanzheng Street jewelry building, and then went to the night market to find out whether they could rent the stalls.

After all, just after graduating from college, it is so easy to rent a stall in the night market, because it is hard to find a shop in the downtown area of Jianghan Road. Many old business people have been doing it for several years, and no one has to sell the booth, let alone the empty stall.

Chen Xueyi did not want to let go of this good place to do business. He found someone to customize a wooden bench, and then selected some exquisite jewelry and hairpin from the girl's sensitive and beautiful nature.

Chen Xueyi arrived at the night market at 5 in the evening. After a month, she earned her own "first pot of gold" - 2000 yuan, much higher than the money earned from her relatives.

The wrong business is dismal.

At the end of 2006, although Chen Xue Yi did not make a lot of money, he found out some doors and windows of jewelry sales, including what goods to enter and what accessories to spread.

In the bottom of her heart, she consulted her family and wanted to open a facade in Hankou.

She finally persuaded her parents to borrow tens of thousands of yuan from them, and rented a facade in a newly built small mall.

"Because there is not much money on hand, we can only choose a small mall that has just completed the business of investment, and think of keeping shop for several years. Until the market is mature, business will come naturally."

Chen Xueyi told reporters.

At the beginning of 2007, Chen Xueyi's jewelry store opened, and the decoration design in the shop was done by her alone.

She was afraid that her hands would not be enough. She also brought her cousin to accompany her to purchase goods and manage the shop.

Just opened, Chen Xueyi made a lot of gimmick, made a publicity list, scattered around, plus the store where the mall is attracting investment, publicity is bigger, just opened that meeting, the traffic is pretty good, and her jewelry price is low, the style is pretty, the first two months business is not bad.

However, it has not yet been half a year since the mall still has many facades to rent out. Developers no longer focus their attention on publicity, so that the guests who come to the shopping mall are less and less each day. Chen Xueyi's jewelry store business has also been deserted.

"Now think again, if I can re open a shop, I must make a good market survey ahead of time, and the most important thing is to choose lots. After all, jewelry selection is one aspect, and human flow is another important aspect."

Chen Xueyi said.

At the beginning of second, Chen Xueyi had a lot of stock to deal with, and when the lease came, she turned off the store.

With a pile of jewelry that had not been sold, it returned to the night market.

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Self study cloth art opens

In 2005, Chen Xueyi liked to shop online, and she always had the idea of opening a shop.

When she was shopping online, she was attracted by a handmade cloth shop.

The handicraft made by this shop with all kinds of cloth has unique originality and strong practicability.

Chen Xueyi thought it was an opportunity and regretted that he did not know anything about it. Although he had studied costume design before, he could only play the edition with his master. He really needed to pick up these cute tissue boxes, cell phone bags and purses with stitches.

Seeing the opportunity, she did not want to give up. She contacted the seller and began to ask the shop owner how to learn cloth art.

The boss naturally refused to give her lessons easily, but she told her some skills very plainly.

Later, Chen learned a few books to teach handmade cloth, and then found materials and tools on Taobao, so large as to all kinds of cloth, to all kinds of lovely lace, buttons and zippers. All the materials and tools for handwork were bought by Chen Xueyi. Then, according to the reference book, he carefully matched, cut up the cloth and stitched it slowly.

In 2008, Chen Xueyi began to build his own shop, spending money on shop decoration, and then began to sell the cloth he made in a year to the Internet.

Usually when there is nothing to do, post a forum to publicize online shop.

It's hard to earn credit, but Chen Xueyi always believed that if he was willing to stick to propaganda and learn all kinds of fabric design, his online business would grow bigger someday.

Now Chen Xueyi's fabric outlets have been upgraded to 4 drills, and they also sell various kinds of cloth and tools in the shop.

"Open shop can really save a lot of rental costs, and the risk is much smaller."

Now, Chen Xueyi is going to rent an office building and offer some DIY courses.