Originally Posted by
pittendrigh
Work with break even calculations. Add up what it would cost you to purchase the materials for 100 dozen Royal Wulffs. Think about overhead: advertising, marketing, material waste, postage and shipping. Then compare those figures to the price per dozen most fly shops are paying now.
If you still want to be involved learn something about website development. Travel to Kenya or Thailand and talk to tiers there. Or maybe spend some time teaching locals to tie. Exploitable groups might include unemployed stay-at-home moms or the wheelchair bound. The least attractive way to get commercially involved would revolve around a single all-in-one entrepreneur actually tying anything. It just doesn't add up.