Business At A Glance
Startup Costs: $2,000 – $10,000
Home Based: Can be operated from home.
Online Operation? No
Business Overview
Manufacturing custom-made sportsmen’s vestsfor hunting, fishing and boating activities is an outstanding homebased business venture to get rolling, especially for the entrepreneurwith sewing skills and experience.
The key to success in this type ofspecialty clothing manufacturing business is to ensure that thesportsmen’s vests serve many functions related to the activity they’vebeen created for–as well as ensuring that the materials andworkmanship used in creating the product are of the highest quality.
Once completed, the sportsmen’s vest can be sold to national sportinggoods retailers on a wholesale basis or the sportsmen’s vest can besold directly to consumers via mail-order catalogs, recreation tradeshows and the internet.
Furthermore, the business can be started on apart-time basis and expanded to full-time from the profits earned. Besure to seek exporting opportunities for the vests, as American andCanadian sporting goods and sportswear is extremely popular overseas,especially in Japan and Germany.