It all started in 2010, when we did for loved ones handmade accessories from leather - belts, bags and wallets. It was not for us business, but rather a favorite hobby. We went to normal work and in your free time, the design and cut of the products were invented. We did not have the goal to earn, we just liked to make practical and beautiful things and give them to your friends.
Then the sarafined radio did its job, and we began to ask for something for sale. To be honest, first time we even refused it, one thing to do for the soul and in your pleasure, the other is for sale. It was a big responsibility.
Of course, it was nice and significant for us when people like our products so much that they want to give them their loved ones.
The turning point has come when we have got orders for more than one hundred thousand. We realized that to maintain high quality and to accomplish such a volume, we must open our own workshop.
Produce technologically complex things at home was hard enough
We rented an office near the house, on the territory of the former research institute, which was then closed, and most of the premises surrendered. We were lucky and we managed to book an office consisting of two rooms, a price ridiculous in Moscow standards.
To begin with, we needed the minimum number of equipment - press, sewing machine, cutting table and many different small tools and raw materials.
Hired to work the first employee - seamst. It was very exciting, then it seemed to us that we became real businessmen - we have our own office, machine tools, materials and even a hired worker. But literally in a week, the seamstress went into the cock, thoring several large orders, and then we realized that before this business was still far away.
Since then, 11 years have passed. Now we have fully established production, which works like a clock, a registered trademark, equipment for a million rubles, promoted social networks (more than 20 thousand subscribers in Instagram - Ed.) And about a hundred different product models
Our products are sold in the largest Marketplates of Wildberris and Yandex.Market.
In the site and its promotion for several years we have invested more than 2 million rubles. Now he generates almost half of all sales. We work with wholesale and dropships clients. We make custom-made products for corporate clients, among our customers bank "Otteria", Aviasales, Mail.Group, famous bars and restaurants.
Raw materials, paints, impregnations and tools, we purchased and buying exclusively abroad - the USA, Italy, Switzerland. It is much more expensive, but our philosophy does not change - quality and durability should be higher than others. Our belts and other accessories are thousands of people around the world.
Now the average financial turnover Belbuck is 500 thousand rubles per month. At the same time, net profit is about 65-70%. We went to such indicators of our workshop for 11 years. Of course, the main thing is our achievement - this is a worked experience that you will not buy any money.
Here are just a few examples of what you have to go through to open your own leather accessories workshop.
To come up with a new model design and prepare the correct pattern, it takes a lot of time and effort. The form of unique products you have to be developed manually, you can not just download on the Internet.
New modelsThe patterns are drawn by manually on millimeter paper, cut off manually, then burned with a laser on dense cardboard, and only after that they can be used to sewing a test sample. And if the pattern turned out to be at least a millimeter more or less than the desired size, it will have to completely remake it. You can still close your eyes on the spoiled material, but the nerves after such a procedure, especially repeated several times, will not be restored.
Our favorite suppliersSomeone supplies with a marriage, someone brings skin color, different from the necessary, and the expectations of the buyer is exactly the color of the skin, which in the photographs. Factory, even Italian, is considered normal practice. Among other things, you need to find suppliers for accessories, high-quality glue, threads, equipment and hundreds of smallest things that are needed in work.
Here, everything is as in classical relationships so that love and mutual understanding arose between you, you need a long work of two sides. Without a candy-bought period, the wipe process immediately begins. In order for the manufacturers to understand you and relate to your purchases with particular attention, it takes more than one year, while you will have to change partners in order to find "one".
Packaging for a productOur buyers often take the product as a gift, and they should be so not ashamed to give them! Under each product it is necessary to make a serious purchase of materials for the production of packaging, make rodsformes, find a contractor with affordable prices and high quality.
Each product is packaged in one of three types of corporate gift packaging - textile covers, cardboard and premium packaging made of natural wood. Designer cardboard for packages, by the way, are also brought from abroad.
StaffNow we have several Swiy, which passed serious selection. We only take the best and most neat. Each of them must fill the hand before proceeding to work: to get used to the materials, ensure the highest level of quality and, if necessary, take and remake everything first.
Add to this list that you absolutely "no time to the star" - customers are waiting for goods, suppliers payment, bloggers are asked free samples, a Skype conference with the manufacturers from the United States is scheduled for 2 hours, and you have red eyes and your eyes, and you You have decreasing cutting down for the press for the tenth time for a half-meter to make the perfect model of a new cardholder. This will be the real story of the success of Belbuck, which is not ashamed now to tell, and we really have something to be proud of.