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Becoming #1 for Grateful dead patches, Simpson's Patches, Spiderman Patches, etc... will not be difficult. There is little competition and with a search engine friendly commerce website design & a 6 month internet marketing campaign you should be on the first page of Google, Yahoo, and MSN for all your sub-categories.
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For promoting our Digital Photo Keychains (for WholesaleKeychain.com) we contacted Tech & Gadget Blogs saying, "Can we send your blog a Free Digital Photo Keychain?" We obviously received a warm response and found around 30-40 high trafficked blogs to write reviews about our digital photo keychains; drastically increasing our back links and our search engine rankings for 'Digital Photo Keychains.' We suggest you do the same for PatchesGiant.com Would you pay $10 for a permanent link? YES, you would pay $10 for a permanent link especially when it is coming from a website that relates to the product you are selling. So to rank #1 for "Spiderman Patches" just contact movie blogs, spiderman blogs, and other sites that write about that subject. Ask them, "Can I send you 5 Free Spiderman Patches." In the e-mail make sure you tell them you want to send the the free patches for them to review your product and write a blog / article post about your company; worked pretty well for WholesaleKeychain.com. Now what will really make the business successful is buying a Stamp Printing Machine and also offering custom stamps. But that that will be expensive and if you are like us at WebBizIdeas.com we don't like operating/doing the busy work of an internet business...we like to focus on what we do best (web design & internet marketing) and outsource any other work to people who are more qualified than us. 
OnlyPatches.com might be a possible partner in this business venture. They offer very affordable patch printing and also do low quantities. The key to success is offering the ability to print just 1 patch to consumers. Threadless.com does this for t-shirts and makes $30,000,000 a year with a 30% profit margin. If you are able to partner with a company (or do it yourself) that can print 1 patch or 1,000 patches for customers you will find great success So once your #1 for all sub-categories of patches, #1 for patches, and can print 1 custom patch at a time it is time to invest in a Personalized eCommerce Website Design. This same software helped VistaPrint.com increase sales from $90 million in 2005 to over $250 million in 2007. Giving the customers the ability to upload a logo, see how it would look printed on a patch, and then ordering it will help sales tremendously. Community Website Design You will also want to spend the money on building in an online community. Not just a community that can talk to one another but a community that can upload their own images and sell them on patches. You will want to research Threadless.com & CafePress.com and see how opening up their eCommerce store to members has dramatically increased sales. Estimated Capital Needed
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