Hands-On: Promoting Sewing Through Ticche & Bea
Ticche & Bea is a small craft kit manufacturer located in Chicago--it's our mission to teach the world to sew, value the past, and connect generations. Our kits allow customers to "upcycle" their t-shirts or baby clothes into quilts, and learn to value the art of working with your hands.
Q1: Has anyone ever created a business where the goods and products are sold through home parties? I feel like this could be a good way to introduce sewing to kids, especially through our Design-A-Doll kit. My idea is to have birthday parties were kids learn to sew outfits for the dolls, but I don't really know how to get something like this started. Has anyone created this type of business?
Idea Description
Having been a teacher for thirteen years, I started to notice the "fall-out" of people who never had a home ec class. At Ticche & Bea, www.ticcheandbea.com, we value technology, and of course all the three r's of education, but there is a gap of people who simply don't know how to work with their hands. Learning to sew slows the world down a bit--it allows you to focus, to let troubles fall away, and it serves as an outlet for creativity. What for our grandmothers was a major part of life is now becoming an endangered art. Our purpose at Ticche & Bea is to encourage creativity, help others develop fine motor skills, and preserve the past.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
We're currently at an impasse-- we're selling our kits through major retailers like www.uncommongoods.com, and through a few small distributorships. We have large sales numbers, but anyone who's ever had a business will tell you-- it takes money to make sales. We've seen incredible wholesale growth, but we don't always have enough money to make the products. This may sound like a good problem to have, but it's actually more stressful than not having any sales. If we won the 10K, here's what we would do:
1. $4,000--purchase materials
2. $4,000--advertising
3. $2,000-- create sewing workshops & parties. This is the next step in the evolution of Ticche & Bea.
Vote for it now.
I like your idea; I want to improve your odds of getting funding I will vote for your idea if you will vote for mine. My idea is for a web site that raises money for inventors and entrepreneurs called New Idea website Check out my idea blob submission and visit New Idea Website and see what I can do for you. http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/4060-NEW-IDEA-WEBSITE The need for jobs is one of the biggest problems that a democratic government faces because creating jobs is an unwanted byproduct of business and industry. The reason I say its unwanted is the more jobs a business creates the more its expenses are and the smaller it’s bottom-line. If business and industry have their way they would run their companies with no jobs at all no management or labor. To deal with this dilemma I pr…moreopose a federal venture capital carrot fund that literally pays entrepreneurs to create jobs. The investment bank would be expected invest in seed level startup projects like yours and to lose money at a specified dollar per jobs ratio for example during hard times that figure may be as high as $20,000 per job and good times the figure may be as low as five dollars per job, by controlling this ratio the fed could roughly control unemployment. The bank will be expected to fund novel products and services and stay away from things like restaurants that will simply draw jobs from other restaurants or moving factories from one part of the country to another. If you like this idea vote for it and send the congressional letter from the website. Sincerely Frank Scruggs