6d โ€ข Communities
HOOKERS NEED MERCH!
๐—ข๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—ฎ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—›๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—š๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐˜… ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—œ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€
A member of my community runs a crochet community.
She calls her members Hookers!
Which already tells you she knows exactly who her people are.
Her recent post joked about the possible side effects of learning to crochet:
โ€ข Buying yarn for projects you havenโ€™t started.
โ€ข Saying โ€œjust one more rowโ€ at midnight.
โ€ข Collecting unfinished WIPs.
โ€ข Calling the yarn stash an โ€œinvestment.โ€
โ€ข And eventually referring to yourself as a hooker in public.
I read it and immediately started creating merch in my head.
Project bag: One Stitch at a Time
Row counter: One Row at a Time
Stitch-marker tin: Emergency Hooker Supplies
Project tags: Still Working My Program / Itโ€™s Complicated / On a Break
Crochet notebook: My Recovery Plan โ€” for recovering all those unfinished WIPs.
Tool pouch: One Stitch at a Time โ€” Hooker Survival Kit
None of those ideas came from browsing โ€œbest merch for crocheters.โ€
They came from the culture she had already created.
The language.
The habits.
The inside jokes.
The things her people immediately recognize as theirs.
The products arenโ€™t the idea. Her community is.
Sometimes the best product ideas are already sitting in the way your customers talk.
Whatโ€™s one phrase or inside joke that would immediately tell your customers, โ€œthis was made for usโ€?
Join my free community, GET YOUR MERCH MADE and give me one phrase, joke, habit or problem your clients, customers or members understand that an outsider probably wouldnโ€™t.
Letโ€™s see what might be hiding inside it.
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Barbara Hobart
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