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THE DIPPIE HIPPIE Start-up cost: $5,000 Potential earnings: $25,000 annually, or more with more ambitious overall marketing plan (initial outlay will increase accordingly). Advertising: Register domain and Trademark and follow ordinary registry procedures. Utilize a Smart Ad campaign and/or similar marketing strategy. Cross pollinate this with dual strategy: first B2C, utilizing flyers, references from other "counterculture" sites, and participation with ongoing efforts by the Haight-Ashbury Commission in San Francisco to ensure ongoing relevance of counterculture. Next, direct marketing to businesses that sell like or similar products, including head shops, and gift/variety retailers of "sixties"-related products. Build or obtain a small kiosk for use at San Francisco and other areas where ongoing "reunions" and the like transpire regularly. Equipment needed: Laptop with adequate e-business application, such as ICode's Accuware Online. A small kiosk for use at events. Various materials for use in tie dye and design and manufacture of sixties-come-21st-century clothing and soft goods, and beads and silk and leather, etcetera, for the design and assembly of accessory items. Qualifications: Creative genius for understanding how counterculture is imitated but unauthentically by other retailers. Most all of such products today are inexpensive and even cheap references to the authentic genre of sixties clothing and art. This would need to find relevance in the 21st century, in terms of design. So perhaps it's as Robin Williams has said: "if you remember the sixties, you weren't there." The ability to tie dye high quality clothing and fabric and to design 21st century relevant products that bring the sixties and counterculture into today's world more authentically than others are doing.
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