Frustrated artist looking for tips on starting a successful business - Tiki Carving

H hewey Tiki Socialite Sydney, Australia Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 4283	H hewey Posted posted on Mon, Feb 28, 2005 3:54 PM I reckon you start off as a hobby/weekend thing and see how it goes. My mate does antique furniture restoration in his garage 3 days a week, and works a 'regular' job in a hardware store 4 days a week. Hes going okay, and has more than enough demand to keep him going. All he has is a simple add in the phonebook. If you can get enough kick out of doing your own thing, then maybe fronting up to your regular job on Monday might not seem so bad. But then I would neve have the balls to start my own business - talk to some of the people on here thta do it fulltime and find out what it is really like. As far as creating your own stuff, you will probably still have to alter your designs to give them more universal appeal so that the masses will buy them - I think Beach'n has this problem (?). And that puts you in a similar place to which you started.

I reckon you start off as a hobby/weekend thing and see how it goes. My mate does antique furniture restoration in his garage 3 days a week, and works a 'regular' job in a hardware store 4 days a week. Hes going okay, and has more than enough demand to keep him going. All he has is a simple add in the phonebook.

If you can get enough kick out of doing your own thing, then maybe fronting up to your regular job on Monday might not seem so bad.

But then I would neve have the balls to start my own business - talk to some of the people on here thta do it fulltime and find out what it is really like.

As far as creating your own stuff, you will probably still have to alter your designs to give them more universal appeal so that the masses will buy them - I think Beach'n has this problem (?). And that puts you in a similar place to which you started.

Post #143792 by hewey on Mon, Feb 28, 2005 3:54 PM