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How To Start Your Own Tailoring Business by Sifonudoh: 7:24am On May 21, 2020
Everyday people are sewing clothes either for occasions or for their work. Tailors are making lots of money from the clothes they sew every day. You can start a tailoring business if you have passion for sewing. To own a tailoring shop you don’t have to be a professional tailor at first. You can open the tailoring shop and then learn how to sew afterwards.

Note: To start a tailoring business in Nigeria, you always have to be at the shop to monitor what your employees are doing so that you know the number of clothes that they sew each day.

You should also sell lace materials, wrappers and other wearable in your shop as your customers will always want to buy clothes when they see that you have them in your tailoring shop. If you are sewing male clothes, selling cufflinks, watches, and other accessories is also a nice way to make extra money.

Tailoring business is very lucrative in this part of the world as people cannot stay without sewing new clothes especially during festive seasons. Women alone sew many clothes and that niche is most lucrative than their male counterpart though both pays well.

Before starting out, you should bear it in mind that you need some amount of money to get the equipment to start a tailoring business, pay for shop rent, search for a good location, employ professional tailors, and for you to make more passive income you should also provide additional services like embroidery, sales of machine oil, linens, threads and needles.

This article is geared toward letting you know what you require when starting a tailoring business. You are required to read it carefully as it will help you out.

What you need to start your tailoring business and make money
Choose a better Location
A good location is what drives a business and make it stand out among the rest. To be successful in your tailoring business, you need to rent a shop in a nice, busy and serene environment that you can be noticed and approached for business. Though as a tailor your customers will always locate you if you know how to sew very well, you also need a location that is accessible to people. You need a place that you will have constant light to use and iron fabrics or do embroidery.

Buy Original equipment
When buying equipment to start tailoring business, you need to invest in original and cost effective equipment. You don’t need equipment that will break down while you are working. A failed machine will bring about delay in a customer’s work and may cost you to lose your customers.

Employ only professional tailors
When you want to start a tailoring business, you can decide to employ professional tailors and then learn tailoring from them. This is cost effective as you only need to buy the equipment and then employ them to be sewing while you pay them. Along the line if you want to learn, you can learn from them in an easier way without having to pay another tailor outside to learn sewing again.

Calculate your cost
As a business person, your main aim is to make profit from your tailoring business. You have to calculate what it took you to open the tailoring shop and know the rate at which you bill your customers. You should not overcharge or undercharge your customers. You should also ask to know what other tailors bill on different clothing styles.

Provide additional services
This is what usually brings about extra money to all tailors. If you have embroidery machine in your shop, other tailors will always come around to do embroideries with you and you will earn cash. You can also sell other tailoring kits like machine oil, tapes, chalk, threads, and needles

Provide room for training
People will always want to come and train with you. You should be open to persons willing to learn tailoring. Training usually comes with a fee. Say if you have several students learning tailoring from you, you in turn bill the cash for teaching them. When the time elapses, they can decide to pay again if during the period not all was learnt.



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Re: How To Start Your Own Tailoring Business by joeybankz: 9:19am On Dec 01, 2020
You actually need a business plan to this effect, every business desires a plan... The Tailoring Business Plan in Nigeria sample is a Feasibility Study written to put you through your tailoring business enterprise.
Re: How To Start Your Own Tailoring Business by flexit: 9:29am On Dec 26, 2021
Last but not the least you need an app that manages your orders, your customer & measurement information, also your accounting -

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