#4

This week, I've been working largely with my group on designing our storefront project and our $200 idea. We had a little trouble getting everybody to agree on one idea at first, but by now all the kinks have been wrinkled out and we’re on track to getting all of our ideas panned out for the storefront project. For the $200 project, we had initially agreed on selling customized Brookline Christmas cards, but our group was pretty split on that venture, so we chose to switch it up. Now, we’re most likely going to sell customized T-shirts. They’ll be white with a basic design spray painted on front, such as a superhero logo or a cool yet simple design. To do this, we found bulk white T-shirts online to be bought for under $2 each, and are working with friends who have experience in designing stencils specifically for spray painting designs. This is where the fun comes in, because it allows us to be creative and have lots of fun with this idea while still making money. The only setback is that it’s currently winter time and T-shirts are geared more toward a warm, fuzzy climate. Given this issue, we’re not 100% confident in this idea for our business, but I want to proceed regardless. I feel like it seems fun and the market is still definitely there- just not as large as if it had been summer time. Oh well. One of the cool things we can do to help our designs really sell is by posting them on social media and having our audience and potential consumers vote on which are the coolest. That way we’ll be sure about the market and being able to turn profitable quickly. Thus, I’m looking forward to finally being able to start this, which should be underway within a couple weeks at most.