How to organize your studio

The organization of any business is not a simple business, associated with risks and losses. It is important to calculate everything in advance and choose the type of activity that will be profitable and familiar to you. A clothing repair shop is a good option for your small business.

Instruction manual

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First, determine for yourself why the studio, and not the grocery store or hairdresser. Firstly, repair of clothes is a service that is always in demand, even during a crisis. Secondly, at fairly low costs, this business almost always begins to make a profit after 3-4 months. Thirdly, a small studio can be your additional source of income, since with proper organization it does not require a lot of time.

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If you decide to organize your studio, you need to register your business. For clothing repair services, an organizational form of IP is suitable, the creation of which will not take much time and will cost 1, 500 rubles, provided that you will do it yourself, without intermediaries.

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Next you need to decide on the place. According to experts in this business, the most "walkable" (that is, profitable) are points in residential areas. This can be a small pavilion in a local shopping center or a room on the ground floor of a multi-storey building surrounded by the same houses.

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Before you decide on a place, find out if there are a lot of ateliers in this microdistrict and what services they offer. It may happen that in the vicinity there will be many such places. Although, perhaps, they will not compete with you (for example, you are engaged in the repair of textile clothing, and in the district there is only an atelier for tailoring and repairing fur and leather). Keep in mind that most often the most profitable are the points in quiet areas where there are many middle-class citizens. Richer people prefer either to throw away clothes when they need repairs, or to have their own seamstresses.

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When concluding a lease, carefully read it. Please note whether the late payment fee is too high. Find out if the landlord has the right to lease the premises to you - perhaps he himself rents it without the right to sublease (transfer to third parties). Usually, the initial deposit for renting the premises is equivalent to the amount of payment for two months, so be prepared for this. More often than not, renting is the biggest expense in this business.

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The next step is the purchase of equipment. At first, buy three cars: hemming (for the bottom of the trousers), ploskoshovnaya straight-line (it carries out the main repair work) and knitted. You can significantly save on the cost of equipment if you buy not new, but already in use. In specialized stores, cars can cost up to several thousand dollars, used equipment - several thousand rubles. It is very important to be at least a little oriented in the device of the machine, so as not to incur additional losses. It is best to purchase equipment in the presence of a specialist.

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The most difficult stage of organizing your studio is the selection of qualified employees. If you want to engage in clothing repair work, since you yourself have the appropriate education, then everything is much simpler. Just find the second master, because you yourself will not be able to cope with all orders. If you are a person far from sewing, look for potential workers among acquaintances and their friends. If there are none, you will have to take an outsider and make him "your own." To do this, at first spend as much time with him as possible, tell how to communicate with clients, monitor his work. It is best to punish for unscrupulously repaired clothes with the ruble, this is the most convincing.

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Shortly before the opening of the studio take care of advertising. Distribution of leaflets on mailboxes works very well, especially when the bearer is offered a discount. You can also agree with the owners of the shopping center, if you rent a room in it, about placing an advertising banner on the facade of the building.