Stagnant

Nothing much has been happening with Luce for the past few days.Been doing the usual research on forums ..... however found a very good site about how important the "About us/me " page is .
check it out : http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/01/best-practices-for-effective-design-of-about-us-pages/

Freelance Designers

I've been looking around for some freelance designers to do my logo and may be some T-shirt Designs later on and came up with some good sites .

1.) www.elance.com
2.) www.guru.com
3.)www.designoutpost.com

personally I found Elance to be the most user-friendly site.

hope this helps.

Its Official

Finally took the first step and registered my business name with Service Canada as Sole Proprietorship. Wasn’t too complicated, you get to fill a pretty user friendly web application and it will only cost $60.00.

I was planning on going hunting for some Freelance designers to get the ball rolling on few designs, however after asking my friends at the T-Shirt Forum, (Article about Branding) I need to work on my branding bit more. I also found a good book on Starting a clothing line. I will post the name of the book shortly. Rite now gotta spend some time and come up with a Logo Design, going to keep it clean and simple, may be just Luce Design with catchy font.

I was also able to get a hold of my friend who runs a Web design company. I’m going reserve my web address. It only costs $10.98 for the whole year. Not too bad for a person with really tight budget.

So here I’m at my F/T job surfing the net trying to find more clues and tips for my biz and bumped into this site. I’ve done some research on this blog and came across some good articles.
Check it out: http://www.howtostartaclothingcompany.com

Still in the Making

OK, so I've been reading through tons of articles on T-shirt Forums and trying absorb as much information and advice as possible. This forum has been a great help for me as a person who is totally new to the industry. One of the things I'm planning to do is post links to all the help full sites i find on the way.

First things first need to get my biz name registered. I'm operating out of Toronto, Ontario, so $60.00 will do and with that I get a tax Id as well. Then I can go ahead and buy a domain and reserve my website name. Thought of doing these two things first b'cos don't want the name being stolen.

Next thing on the list is to get some sketch designs going, I'm planning on outsourcing some of the designing as well. So if a freelancer happens to be passing by I'm looking for one for nominal fee. Oh ya and a Logo. Not big fan of the Logo but though a Logo might come helpful when it comes marketing.