Friday, June 26, 2009

Experiences: Crafting

By Ian Kleine

My friend has some serious talent when it comes to making crafts out of beads and strings. She was always spending her idle time doing so, giving it to her friends, to her classmates, to her teachers, and also, even to me. How she expertly weaves her hands in and out of the threads and bobbles, and then making something simply beautiful still catches me in awe and sweet surrender to her skill. At a later point of our high school year, we became good friends and I suggested that she go try it out for our school fair. Told her that her craft is good, and I'm sure people would pay to have a bit of her work.

That was how she managed to pay off her miscellaneous fees, and how she had done her feasibility studies, all in one. Parents praised her, teachers commended her; she was set off into the beads and baubles industry soon after. And to think she started off with only thinking on how to fund her next day's supply of beads and strings. Truly amazing.

So basically, she was a starter at the school fair that time, competing with the other school clubs managed by a whole class, teacher cookouts and class driven effort; how did she top it all off?

First, research. For one thing, the people who were given the necklaces had responded favorably to it. It was a hobby right? So she had already given quite a number of the trinkets to different persons. The demography was huge. From teachers who were grandmamas, students who were barely out of puberty, mothers of the parents that came by to see where their children got the necklaces from it was a business idea waiting to be discovered.

She had a good customer base already, because she had established relations with the customers even before the said fair.

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