When you first launch your new clothing brand chances are you are going to burn through your budget very quickly. Situations will arise causing you to spend money when you didn’t think you had to. Between initial photography, website and inventory your budget could be gone before you even launch so it is important as an entrepreneur and business owner you roll up your sleeves and learn as much as you can to get your brand growing. Don’t assume people will just hear about it. You need to perform some marketing actions. These actions don’t have to be expensive if you are willing to learn as much as you can.
The internet has become a giant encyclopedia filled with tutorials and information just waiting to be read. You will quickly find that you cannot always pay a vendor to accomplish a certain task for you. Unless you have bottomless pockets and endless investors you will want to spend your money wisely. With a down economy right now you have to account for every penny spent. Let’s face it the internet is most likely where the majority of your audience is hanging out. Online marketing is an area that is seeing explosive growth. By the signs there is absolutely no slowing down and the power of the internet is only going to pull more and more brands into it. When launching a new clothing brand many entrepreneurs don’t realize just how much can be done online themselves. You don’t have to spend your entire day on Twitter and Facebook but rather think outside the box and try different things to generate traffic to your website in order to gain visibility. You don’t have to have a large offline marketing budget to become visible and build traffic either.
If you want to launch an online marketing campaign there are many resources on what needs to be done that are updated daily. You need help redesigning a logo? Do a quick search online for endless amounts of photoshop tutorials. When you first launch your clothing line it will be bootstrapping time. Hustle, learn as much as you can and watch how you spend. If you need to spend money spend on things that are extremely important like more inventory. You don’t always need to hire an expensive photographer to take product photos. Ask your friends and family if they have a decent camera you can borrow and learn the settings. If you need to photograph products you can easily make a homemade light tent that can create very professional looking product photos for a fraction of the costs. Most importantly you must believe in your brand from the day you start your idea. Take your time and come up with something that people will enjoy. Remember sleep less and work more. If you want your clothing brand to make it you will have to make some sacrifices.