Official Business Name: Tern Cycles
Business Owner: Sheila Manson
Business Address: 1112 N. Baldwin, Portland, OR 97217
Phone: 503.926.2210
Email: drownedbyswell@gmail.com
What days/times are best for you to meet?
flexible
What is the best way to contact you?
email
Overview:
Custom handmade bicycles.
Target Audience:
Anyone who has a hard time purchasing an "off the peg" bicycle that fits properly.
Philosophy/history:
Transportation with style and function.
Mission:
To build bicycles that make cyclists want to pedal forever.
Competitive advantage:
I love cycling, and I'll be one of a dozen women custom framebuilders around the US.
Business obstacles:
Funding.
Proposed deliverables:
Logo (both for down tube and marketing products) business cards, invoices/Iphone digital receipts, print promotional piece/s describing her business, web site home page, trade show pop-up items (banner/sign, environment ideas, posters (loves silkscreen), giveaways (i.e. decals), head badges
Blue sky deliverables:
I love a classic look from the golden age of bicycles, I also love the proletariat art of 1930's Russia, I love Hitchcock films, I love prohibition era beer signs, I love a gorgeous simple and refined design. I love old whiskey, miracle creams and potion bottles.
Anything you don't like?
kokopeli-ish images, cartoony things, mustard colored things, no female signs or silhouettes or "typical woman" themes (things like "luna bars"). Over-design.
What is your immediate budget?
I will be getting IDA funds at the end of May - which can be used towards this. Other than that around $400-$600
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