Retirement Jobs – Bandanna Scarf Maps

Just to set the record straight, I checked with Wikipedia and learned the following:

“A kerchief (from the French couvre-chef, "cover the head") is a triangular or square piece of cloth tied around the head or around the neck for protective or decorative purposes.

A "handkerchief” primarily refers to a napkin made of cloth, used to maintain personal hygiene.

A bandanna or bandana (from the Hindi: bandhana, "to tie") is a type of large, usually colorful, kerchief, usually worn on the head. Bandannas are frequently printed in a paisley pattern.”

OK, for this exercise, forget the paisley but the fact is bandannas are easy to construct and popular items with men and women that spend a lot of time in activities in and outdoors.

Adding helpful maps of popular places will make your bandannas and scarves even more popular than the run-of-the-mill bandannas and scarves on the market.

The more map locations you are able to acquire the better and you should be able to acquire most of the maps needed for your bandannas on the internet – but and it’s as big but - for copyright reasons you may need to make your own versions of these maps.

Your unique bandanna scarf maps should be popular with people that love hiking, biking, and walking popular trails and famous areas.

Retirement Jobs – Bandanna Scarf Maps – Production and Promotion

If you want to start this 'business idea' without too much of an investment, you can print the maps out on heat transfer paper on your printer and iron the maps to the bandannas yourself. You should be able to use this method for a while until your orders are too large to fill by yourself.

Start locally and regionally - if you live in an area that has popular adventure locations, research for maps of hiking, biking, cross-country skiing and snowmobile trails in government parks and commercial resorts.

You can offer your bandannas to local tourist and sports shops, including stores that sell bicycles, sports shoes, and hiking supplies.

Retirement Jobs – Bandanna Scarf Maps – The Internet

This is also an excellent product to offer on the Internet once you have a good variety of maps to offer. Offering your bandannas on an internet store will open up your customer market and you will need to be prepared with quite a few different types of bandannas and scarf maps. Make sure that your Web Store is easy to use, shows the prices clearly, and show your products with clean detailed digital pictures.

Don’t forget EBay - to get your store found on the Internet, start offering your bandannas on auction sites, this is always an inexpensive way to reach more customers. You may not always make a lot of money selling your maps on auction sites, but you will make your products known and your web store will become familiar. This is a great way to advertise your unique bandannas in a less expensive way and you will acquire new customers.

Also, allow your customers to order customized bandannas and scarf maps for an area not available on your site – have them supply location and a map reference – charge a premium price.

Shipping costs should not cost very much, so you might be able to offer free shipping; this is always a good sales technique.

Retirement Jobs – Bandanna Scarf Maps – A Great Gift

Because your bandanna scarf maps will be unique, helpful, and a great souvenir, they would also be a distinctive gift idea for people that love the outdoors. Make sure that you mention this on all your posters and flyers and on your website - people are always trying to find something new for gift ideas.

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