Supply Chain Management Checklist Understanding your Business- What are the most important factors for you supply chain strategy? Price Point Speed and Market- How Long Location for Logistical or practical purposes Extra values offered by the factor or company Quality Other Factors Stability Design Technical Advisors Make sure you are comparing apples to apples! Same Fabric &Trims to your samples [...]
Here are things you need to be prepared with for any tradeshow you might be exhibiting at. Samples – Make sure to have merchandise all your samples as you would for a retail store display. Too many could crowd your space to few could give a too spare story of your company. Booth - Booth walls are often part of [...]
Project Runway the show on Bravo as we know has become a very popular reality show. BUT, I just don’t get it! On the whole it seems to me that reality shows, and Project Runway is a typical example are really shows that publicly demean, belittle, humiliating and generally are mean spirited that people love to watch! Why do people [...]
A guest post by Jim Wiebe, an expert on technology and retail What is EDI? Why do large retailers have all these ‘compliance’ requirements? How is doing business with large retailers different than small stores and boutiques? Good questions. Important too! For answers, you need to understand how large retail operations work. First of all, retailers have to make money. To do that they focus on [...]
California New Business Laws – Overview from the Apparel News For those of you with California based businesses it will be important for you to take note of the new California laws that will affect your business in 2012. Below is an overview taken from this week’s Apparel News of the new laws that you should be aware of. It [...]
Taking Advice to Learn By – But are WE Ready? – Advice for Profit! Over the past 13 plus years, since writing my book Fashion For Profit and founding the Fashion Business Incorporated I must have met with, and advised an average of around 300 new members per year for the FBI and even more through my public speaking engagements [...]
Just returned from London and Europe where they wear every kind of exotic fur know to man and beasts to learn about this interesting story from Hollywood or as some call it Hollywird! West Hollywood recently became the first city to officially put a ban on fur, and though it won’t come into effect until September 2013, retailers in the [...]
NO!!! It is not alright to scan and copy original artwork, graphics, prints then change it 20% to 30% and claim ownership! It amazes me how often I hear from people in the industry that they think it is fine to scan original art work, which include graphics and prints, then make certain changes. Some industry experts, instructors and students [...]
If you are just thinking about starting a fashion business OR you’re already into it, the fastest way to lose your money is to not know what you’re doing! Don’t make that mistake! You will find that as you try to get your line off the ground, you’re going to hit every mine in the field and the only way [...]
One of the great things about being in the fashion industry for so long is that I have the pleasure and privilege of meeting extraordinary people and as a result, end up having the most interesting experiences. I recently returned from a fascinating trip to Peru as an invited guest of the United Nations. Why the United Nations? This trip [...]
Let’s talk about non-disclosure agreements… If you don’t have one yet, you can find one here in our downloadable forms. We get emails all the time from people who have ideas for products or already have the products and they are coming to us because they need help. They make the initial contact with us and then ask us to [...]
Here is an example of what you can expect to find from some of the technical people you are going to work with. Consider the following email response from a pattern maker when she was asked to follow through on work she had committed to doing… Pattern maker: “I got a job that requires me to work full time until [...]
It all comes down to money in any start-up business and the fashion business is no different, in fact, you might be shocked to learn just how much it costs to get a new product to market. It’s not the cost of launching a new line that is the big drain, it’s the amount of marketing and selling you’re going [...]
Do you know how to calculate your costs of manufacturing your product? What should your Wholesale Price be? What should your suggested Retail Price be? What happens to your margins if you change any of the costs of manufacturing? Is it even possible to manufacture your product at a price that you can sell it for and most important, make [...]
You probably know the Hells Angels as a scary motorcycle club. What you probably didnt know is that they actually own a trademark registration for the mark HELLS ANGELS. So this bunch of motorcycle guys isnt just your run of the mill club, but a real association that has the right to allow or prevent others from using their trademark. [...]
Getting the attention of top fashion bloggers can make all the difference in the world to your success as a new fashion business. These bloggers are on top of everything that’s going on in the world of fashion and they’re writing about it every day. They are the new “movers and shakers” in fashion and wield tremendous influence over the [...]
If you have EVER considered manufacturing in China, before you do ANYTHING else, read the book “Poorly Made in China”! We cannot emphasize enough that there are many pitfalls to manufacturing in China and they have nothing to do with quality! This book is a wild account of manufacturing in China as reported by someone who has had more than [...]
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