So you want to produce some extra income by making duct tape wallets. Good for you!
That’s a great decision and I’ll tell you exactly how we built our business so you can duplicate what we’ve done.
First, let me make a couple of things perfectly clear:
- Building these wallets is NOT easy – if you think there’s no problem working with the strongest, stickiest masking tape known to mankind – THINK AGAIN.
- So simple that a child can do this – tons of kids make their own duct tape wallets. The hard part is keeping things organized and easy to create high-quality portfolios every time.
- Wanting to do this is 80% of the battle – if you have good manual dexterity and can follow the instructions, you will be able to do it. understand that quality comes with practice will help you develop a production system quickly.
Building a wallet business is not rocket science:
- learn to build them – do a search on YouTube.com for “how to build duct tape wallets”. This is how we started. After combining the techniques we learned from the 40 Best Duct Tape Purse Building Videos on YouTube, we developed our own system.
- source tape – Most hardware or building supply stores like Home Depot or Lowes carry a few colors of 2-inch-wide duct tape and specialty craft stores like Michaels have a much larger selection of colors. Over time, we developed 4-inch-wide tape and now offer it in 28 colors and designs.
- sale product – We initially sold our wallets at farmer’s markets and craft fairs, but found that sales from that method barely broke even, and sometimes not even. Today we retail/wholesale our wallets through our own website and have an exclusive wholesale agreement for some color combinations with uncommongoods.com. You can easily sell through online sites like 1000mercados.com gold etsy.comalso.
The world’s largest duct tape wallet manufacturing company now produces machine wallets in China and sells hundreds of thousands of units each year. They have been in business since 2001 so there is definitely a demand for this type of accessory.
Rather, every wallet in our small business is made by stay-at-home moms, and we produced just over 2,000 units in our first year.
So there’s the short story of our early success and I assure you, if we can do this, you CAN do it.
Here’s hoping you stick with it!
barry williams