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Fashion Business Tip: Use Compelling Images
The best way to sell products is to let them sell themselves. How do you do that? With great photos! The Importance of Product Photography Photography can make or break your business. Regardless of if you are selling a physical product or a service, the pictures...
Fashion Business Ideas – Tambour Beading
Do you watch haute couture fashion shows, and see breathtaking embroidery designs that combine thread, sequins and beads to create fantastic elaborate designs that decorate evening dresses, necklines, sleeves, etc? Those intricated patterns are created by hand. When...
Fashion Business Tip: Commission vs Salary… Which is the Better Option for Your Tailors?! (Updated 2019)
This question is one many designers always have a headache about as it deals with money matters. While many of us shy away from it, it is one major problem everyone has. I’ll limit what I have to say to the one question most designers who run production units ask at...
Fashion Business: Tips for Starting Your Fashion Business on a Lean Budget
Starting a fashion business with very little capital is very challenging, but it can be done. Sometimes having too much starting capital can be a bad thing, it gives the early illusion of success and leads to wasteful processes and business practices. I remember...
Fashion Business: How to Start a Fashion Business with No Money
Right! I'm sure y'all are really curious to know how possible it is to start a fashion business with zero money. Truth is anything is possible when you put your mind to it. I can tell you for free that I started 2 successful businesses (well successful in their own...
Debunking the Various Myths About Fashion Design & the Industry (Updated 2019)
People tend to have misconceptions about what it takes to operate in the Fashion Industry. Most of these misconceptions stem from certain mindsets about what people think rather than what it actually is. So here I am debunking the various myths people have about...
The Difference Between a Fashion Designer & a Tailor… Updated 2019
vs SO I've been meaning to write on this topic for a while now.... and I finally decided to do so after having yet another chat with a top don in the Nigerian Fashion Industry who felt the same way I did about the craziness that goes on around here. The...
Specialization In the Fashion Industry
Specialization in the Fashion Industry remains a concept which is still so vague in this environment. I recall a conversation I was having with a friend when my big day was coming up. “I bet you’re sewing your own wedding gown right”? My response? “Errr…. no.” Next...
Growth Tip: Outsource to Grow Your Fashion Business
As a fashion business owner you might find out you are being less productive because you’ve gotten to that point where, there’s just not enough hours in the day to get things done. As you take on new clients or new responsibilities and have new products that...