Hello~~ I finally found the perfect community to put my business attempt updates in ^^
This is my first time posting in this community and I'm pretty excited to write here regularly UwU
So in the past few weeks, I've been trying to build a small business from scratch.
First and foremost, we finally have a logo and a small shop name OwO so when I go for local business registration by May, I have something to present
After much back and forth and brainstorming on this with my boyfriend, Kitty Trinket won XD (I did do a small srvy with my friends and family and my man was firm on this one so we decided on this one XD)
And here is my handsome little model UwU
That's for my logo. Next thing we had to settle on was packaging.
I personally wanted something a bi more impactful and so did my man so we spent a bit of time going over packaging designs that was cheap and easy to make. We both agreed that what we start with will change but while we're still going about what to change the design to, we'll settle with use up all these small boxes I made first XD
This was my paper prototype XD I think I spent a good 30 minutes just making a better estimate then finalizing the measures.
Then I tried it on the thick craft paper we bought and also tried to digitalise a template so we could just print it on the paper and continuously cut on the following days. I did make it a about 2cm longer than my original one but since I was too lazy to resize it, I settled for this and began printing it on alllll my kraft paper XD so now I have 100 small boxes and I will more or less purchase more kraft paper when I begin sales in June onward.
Online selling. Well, I qualified for an online shop in lazada but I will still have to register in BIR and in the local government unit as a baranggay Micro-enterprise to excempt me from a few taxes that the government will ask me for XD I need that protection while I'm not earning yet XD
Then for the products... well I have been making some products in my free time.
These are the ones that I've made so far. Just basi ones for now but I have o admit, It's not easy to make bracelets in between staying fit, working, drawing and maintaining relationships XD I currently don't know how I'm pulling this off but I hope I can keep this up for the next few months cuz I have soooo much planned for this year that I've basically scheduled my life until June XD
In addition to these basic ones, I bought beads and charms!!!
These arrived a few days ago and of course, me being me, I was sooo excited to play with them XD
I made this one first but I never got to finish this because I couldn't comprehend the pattern that well so I tried something else.
Then I made this one yesterday since I had time to relearn old patterns and I was really happy with how it came out UwU
Now, I'm trying to make a thicker one because my sister suggested it would look beautiful as a choker too. So that's part of my activity for today after I finish all the drawings I want to do XD
WEll, that's all from me for today! I will see you guys again another day UwU hopefully next week, I can give more business updates or maybe more product updates. I reaaallly hope I can make more bracelets and chokers this week. But for now, I must draw again UwU