A Mogul To Be

One for the inspiration file

March 9th, 2007 by Robert

Matt Coddington, who runs the Net Business Blog, has an interview with the owners of the site One Greek Store. Two things I like about these guys.

First, they just went for it even though they are still in college. They didn’t know much about building a website yet went out on the net and found a free solution called VirtueMart. The software is based on the Joomla! content management system of which I am pretty familiar with. From the interview:

None of us know very much about web stuff. I know some basic things… but nothing significant. We use virtuemart.net which is a free open source shopping cart. The software is easy to use and allowed us to save a lot of money from hiring a programmer or having a custom shop made

Second, they didn’t let early setbacks stop them. They couldn’t find local producers that met their quality standards so instead of lowering their standards or giving up, then went for the ‘hard’ solution and bought the equipment themselves to produce their clothing and do everything out of their apartment! Dennis had this to say:

First we wanted to work with a local retailer… that fell through. So our next step was to outsource all of our production to a local seamstress/embroiderer. But what we found was that these local businesses didn’t product clothing to our quality standard with a fast turnaround. Our final evoluation was to purchase an embroidery machine and do everything in house.

Go read the interview and maybe get inspired to get started on your business idea.

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