| In these tough times, many people are looking for | | | | screened garments. |
| ways to start a home business. One affordable and | | | | The second option is heat transfer. With this process |
| potentially very lucrative home business is the design | | | | the children's garment is placed on a flat heat |
| and printing of children's clothes. The business model | | | | transfer machine (basically a big iron) and the image is |
| is fairly simple: buy wholesale children's clothes, imprint | | | | transferred to the garment by heat. For heat |
| a design and re-sell at a tidy profit. Here are some | | | | transfers you need to have your design made into |
| ways to start your own home-based clothing | | | | heat transfer sheets or find pre-made designs |
| business. | | | | already available as heat transfers. |
| Buy Clothes at Wholesale Prices | | | | Re-sell at a Profit |
| Buying children's or baby clothes at wholesale prices is | | | | Here is where the home based children's clothing |
| essential if you want to ensure that you can have a | | | | business requires the most persistence and creativity. |
| good price point for your finished garments. Buying | | | | Every store only has a limited amount of shelf space, |
| blank shirts off the shelf at the local big box store will | | | | so getting your products in children's clothing |
| guarantee that your costs are too high from the | | | | boutiques or other stores requires making a lot of |
| beginning. | | | | face-to-face contacts with the owners and buyers. |
| The problem many beginning children's clothing | | | | One way to improve your chances is to build a little |
| business owners have is sourcing garments without | | | | of a marketing of the product online. That is, have a |
| huge order minimums. Most international wholesalers | | | | website made that will showcase your product and |
| require an order of thousands of garments and have | | | | then offer retailers some free marketing by linking to |
| a lead time plus shipping of several months. There | | | | their online store and giving the location to their |
| are, however, many online dealers of wholesale baby | | | | physical store. |
| clothes that do not have huge minimums. Unless you | | | | Alternatively, you can try to market your product |
| are certain of the volume of initial sales, seek out | | | | online, at trade shows, flea markets, children's events |
| lower minimums with a smaller order of a larger | | | | and any other venue you can imagine. If you |
| variety of sizes and colors. | | | | self-market and sell, the profits are all yours and you |
| Design Imprints | | | | will not need to sell your products at wholesale rates |
| There are two basic processes for imprinting images | | | | to retailers. |
| on clothing that are viable for at-home businesses. | | | | The steps to starting your own children's clothing |
| These are silk screening and heat transfers. | | | | business include getting clothing blanks at wholesale |
| The up front costs of a silk screening setup will run in | | | | prices, choosing an imprinting technology and choosing |
| the thousands of dollars and it does take some time | | | | your method of sales and distribution. With effort |
| to get used to the silk screening process. You'll also | | | | and perseverance you can develop your own |
| need a space about the size of a one-car garage to | | | | children's clothing business and add to or even replace |
| setup and operate the equipment. That said, many | | | | your current income. |
| retailers and buyers prefer the quality of silk | | | | |