Bed Sheet Making Business Plan - How to Start Bed Sheet Business in Nigeria

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Unpopular is this business but profitable is the name. So far, I have only seen a few people who are into this business as require. Mainly, people like to import foreign bedsheets and pillow cases from the international markets and sell them locally here for profits. But I personally do not think that the system provides maximum returns and profits at full capacity for the importers. What of making those bed sheets and pillow cases locally within the domestic economy at lesser costs of operation and selling them out for bigger and mega profits ? While some have so much argued that the quality of the imported ones are higher than the locally made ones, my reply to such claims is that it is no longer obtainable nowadays given the improved scenario of the Nigerian textile industry.

As a nation, Nigeria can boast of making high quality fabrics and textile materials both in terms of thickness, designs and other fabric enhancements that may be involved. And with the availability of such advanced technologies needed to put these high quality and strong textile materials in a good shape, it is obviously needless to start importing some textile materials from distant lands again. The importation of fashion items like the western outfits and other assorted regalia from other oversea lands may still be condoned but when it comes to the importation of some items like the bed sheets and the pillow cases, I will totally disagree with that. Rather, I think the enterprising youths and individuals in the country should see it as an income stream meant to be exploited for maximum economic benefits and gains.

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In very easy steps, you can start the production, packaging and marketing of bed spreads, bed sheets and pillow covers and make a lot of money doing the business. These items are household commodities with very high demand patterns. From time to time, households and individuals find need for these items as the ones they have get old, worn-out, out of fashion and obsolete. Even while furnishing a new house, bedroom or apartment, the purchase of appropriate and suitable bed sheets and pillow cases is also an integral part of the interior decoration process. It spices up a room and brings out the true bliss of beauty and pleasure in your apartment and belongings especially when the colours blends together with the general surroundings and atmosphere.

Starting this business is relatively a very easy thing to do depending on your proposed start up scale. You do not need too much capital and finances to fund your business at the initial stage of setting it up. Being an educated person is a very good and admirable thing but for this business, both the educated and the uneducated can venture into it and start making money with immediate effect. All that is require of you is the possession of the relevant skills and knowledge with which to approach your work and make products of top designs and high quality at minimum costs. Probably, some of you reading this post right now may have the necessary sewing skills while many others do not.

If you are interested in this business, I will advise that you should first go and acquire the relevant sewing skills, knowledge and experience. Doing this will roughly take you a few weeks or months and you will be an expert in the profession. Bedsheets and pillow cases are easy-to-make items if you have the required sewing skills. You can attach yourself as an apprentice to an expert tailor in the field and learn how to make these items. Take out your time during the apprenticeships course to study how to operated the sewing machines, how to identify good fabric materials for the making of bedsheets and pillow cases, how to measure and cut them according to the standard sizes of beds and bed springs, where to source the materials at low prices, how to make optimum colour combinations as you sow your bedsheets, how to package your products and how to price them. All these and many more are all you are expected to be proficient in doing by the time you complete your training course.

As soon as you are assessed to be excellent or average by your boss, you are good to set up your own bedsheet and pillow case making business and start making money for yourself without wasting your precious time in idleness, unemployment and laziness anymore. Rent a shop for your business in a very strategic position like in busy streets and neighbourhoods, well populated junctions where there are hundreds upon thousands of pedestrians, beside or within a fabric and textile product market and many other good places from where you can get enough customers to patronize your products and services. Furnish your shop to taste so as to make it look attractive and comfortable for people to come in check out what you have to offer them. Buy your sewing machines, wools and other miscellaneous working items and get yourself busy.

Make bedsheets and pillow cases of different sizes, wonderful designs, attractive colour combinations and of different prices using high quality and durable textile materials. Source them from the big dealers in the markets at affordable rates so as to save your production costs. Package your finished products in shiny transparent nylons and place them in show cases for sale. Also, hang and display other products in front of your shop so as to attract customers to buy them from you. Sometimes, people will come to you with textile materials and ask you to sew bedsheets and/or pillow cases for them. Render your efficient, expert and timely services to them and charge them friendly but profitable prices. Remember, you can only make, keep, build and enlarge your customer base by offering them high quality products and services at market-friendly prices.

Also, place a well-designed signpost about your business and services in a strategic corner in front of your shop so as to create.a general awareness for your business. Other promotional and advertising channels like fliers, posters, handbills, billboards, television adverts, radio broadcasts, newspaper spaces, magazine adverts and many more media will also help you to spread the word about your business to your target audiences. Choose the cost-effective ones for a start and go for the higher ones as your business grows.

To even make more money from your business, sell high quality, colourful and well-designed fabrics which your customers can buy from you and use it to make their bedsheets and pillow cases. Also, you can sell mattresses, foams and pillows and make more money. These are additional ways of generating more income from your business. As your business grows, you can employ more staffs and register apprentices for a fee to help you out with your business operations. Establish more business subsidiaries, branches and units and put trusted staffs to take charge of them. Install modern digital cameras all over your shops to monitor the activities going on there even while you are not physically present in such locations. This will boost accountability and transparency for your business and help you to run your business profitably and get maximum returns of your investments.

Your target customers in this business includes the millions household all over Nigeria and even beyond if you can start exporting your products once you start operating on a larger scale. Apart from that, big offices, hotels, guest houses, boarding school authorities, bachelors, spinsters, hospitals, individuals and many more customers who will have need for your products will place their orders with you from time to time. If you do not have the financial capacity of starting this business on a big scale, you can make these items from the comfort of your home, package and distribute them to your customers, offices, hotels, households and other various retail outlets and still make your money.

Get other helpful tips and information about this business from a well-versed expert in the field and you will be properly guided as you start and run your own venture.

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