It was a big deal to me and many things that should be easy turns hard.
I have an experience of opening vintage retail shop before i become a vintage wholesale supplier.
(Finally i found myself expert in finding vintage clothes than selling it, and i happy to see you and your customer love my selection.)
So i will share my experience with you.
*** I'm not good in writing skill but i will try my best ***
What i used to do before become a vintage clothing wholesaler?
- Online retail shop (website).
- Etsy shop.
- Pop-up store.
- Store front in a popular shopping bazaar.
How to set up a vintage clothing store. Step-by-Step !!!
1.You need to check the market in your country.
- Check leader in online, flea market and every where you can find.
- Checking the retail price, style and how they do marketing.
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2. Find leader cross a country
- You will find the way to make your shop different from others.
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3. Find distribution channels.
- You have to check an online market, social network and store front.
- You will get some idea about rental fee, initial cost to start your business.
*** Start small : I recommend you to start with online platform such as, Etsy shop or Facebook and Blog....... because many people can not survive in a big start.
Web site "add to cart" is old-school since 2014 but Etsy still good in this case (reputation)
Ads cost for online shop is a lot cheaper than store-front and worth to pay.***
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4. Find wholesale supplier
- You are in my blog , that's mean you found one.
- Don't belief what supplier told you about their products until you got an items, (start small***)
- Compare products from many supplier and you will see the different such as, quality, price and service.
*** This process takes you a lot of money, because you can not buy from 10 supplier when you start small.
So you need to buy only from trust one.
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5. Take a unique photo collection set
- Vintage clothes are one-piece-of. Please do it in your style as one-piece-of it is.
- Add value on it, make some story through lens *** check a leader
- Buy good camera (not best) invest in lens. it's good start.
*** You can find many photography tips on youtube, please pay attention***
*** Photoshop , illustrator and smart-phone apps help me a lot in post production ***
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6. Plan for a product listing and posting.
*** This is an art ***
you need to try it to see what is your customer behavior
(different country, different behavior)
- Time of posting is important.
- Run an ads on posting is one of "key success factor"
- Post some review of your customer and good article for them.
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7. After sell service
- Take care of your customer and sincere with them.
- Keep them posting by add them to your whatsapp group or etc,
- Offer some promotion. ***
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8. Keep develop your business.
*** Do all 1-7 again and again ***
- Keep expand your platform such as, instagram ,twitter, facebook and etc
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No pain, no gain* in vintage clothing business too
I used to confront with scam supplier many times since i start this business.
and lost too much money just for an experience.
But it worth!
Every time i fall i get stronger.
Today i become vintage clothing wholesale supplier,
I know what you are looking for and i understand your feeling.
That is why i want to share this with you guys.
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