Create Stickers

It didn't occur to me that you could create your own stickers until I saw it as an event at a kid’s party. They actually had a machine that would create stickers. They explained it to me. It was really simple, really. The only things you need to create stickers are a printer with special sticky vinyl backed paper, and a pair of scissors, or some kind of cutter apparatus. Of course, the machine they had to create stickers was a little more elaborate than that. It could cut the stickers in a variety of shapes. You could even create your own bumper stickers.

I asked why they had a special machine to create stickers, and my friends replied that it was what they did for a living. I instantly, almost thoughtlessly, looked at their lovely house in disbelief. Jim seemed to be reading my mind. He asked me if I didn't believe him that you could buy such a nice home with the money you made creating stickers. I gulped, embarrassed, but nodded. He smiled sagely. “We don't just create stickers,” he said, “we create smiles.

He explained to me that it was simple, if you had a catchy enough idea. You just had to copyright the phrase and print it out. You would create stickers and give them to your friends who, if the joke was funny enough, would post it on the back of their car. Other people would see the stickers, and if they caught in their mind, go home and google them. Of course, you would have had to set up a website by this time, so that people could order them cheaply off the internet. Then their friends would see them, and the cycle would repeat itself.

As time went on, my prosperous friend had diversified. He would now create stickers for custom orders. He could make stickers in small batches for parties, or in large batches for businesses. He would even create stickers with a commissioned design, which he would do for quite reasonable prices to increase his brand's name recognition. People love good slogans, catch phrases, and sayings, and if you can create stickers with them, you will have people practically eating out of your hand, coming to you and begging you for more of your clever wit and wisdom. Of course, 90 percent of his business was hard work, but without that extra ten percent, he never would have become the wild success which he is today.