• Your Checklist For Supply Chain Management

    Your Checklist For Supply Chain Management

    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 [...]

  • Checklist For Exhibiting at a Tradeshow

    Checklist For Exhibiting at a Tradeshow

    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 to Nowhere – Reality Torture Show

    Project Runway to Nowhere – Reality Torture Show

    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 [...]

  • EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and Large Retailers

    EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and Large Retailers

    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 [...]

  • New California Laws Affecting Businesses

    New California Laws Affecting Businesses

    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 [...]

  • Expert Advice? OR… Expensive Lessons?

    Expert Advice? OR… Expensive Lessons?

    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 [...]

  • I prefer to keep my coat if you don’t mind!

    I prefer to keep my coat if you don’t mind!

    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 [...]

  • Copyright Infringement Can Cost Your Life Savings

    Copyright Infringement Can Cost Your Life Savings

    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 [...]

  • The A-to-Z of Starting A Fashion Business

    The A-to-Z of Starting A Fashion Business

    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 [...]

  • Fashion in Peru with Spitting Alpacas!

    Fashion in Peru with Spitting Alpacas!

    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 [...]

 

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/ December 30, 2011 9:04 am

Don’t Lose Your Mind Manufacturing in China!

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 [...]