Wow, Thanks Penny and Suzi! There is some advice that can apply to any sort of business.
Annette M (thinking I ought to find a useful(income generating) purpose for all the research I am been doing!) > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 03:45:06 -0400 > From: "Penny Ladnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [h-cost] going into business: (even > Longer) > To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; > charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=response > > Your welcome Kim. > > That was a really good point to make. I recently > talked to a lady in > Gettysburg who has lots of costumes ready made. You > would think in > Gettysburg, you wouldn't have a problem selling ACW > ladies' costumes. But > that market's area has so many established costume > businesses that have they > have the market tied up. This lady does beautiful > work. But she is being > forced to sell her costumes at below their cost > because she needs to get > back her investment. > > I have a lot of education in marketing and > merchandising. So many factors > go into play when marketing a product line. I don't > know if you are > watching the Tommy Hilfiger reality show on CBS, > called The Cut. It is > really interesting because he is dealing more with > the business side of > design than the creative edge. Last week the > challenge was taking 500 > pieces of TH merchandise and reconstructing it to > sell on the streets. One > team lost a day of selling, and decided to sell the > clothing for $5 a piece. > The other team had two days of selling and had only > knocked about $20 off > the suggested retail price. Tommy was very upset > about the team that priced > === message truncated === ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume