Entrepreneurs – How To Establish And Market Yourself As A Fashion Designer

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You’ve been to college or have the fashion skills and you now want to establish yourself as a fashion designer, so how do you get started?

1) Set up your brand to ensure that you and your designs are recognisable. Establish a good label on your items.

2) Design a few small items that you can give away or sell cheaply. These will be your introductions to your brand.

3) Set yourself up a website with good photos of your designs. This is your shop window.

4) Set yourself up a store on etsy and eBay. Set up a regular advert on CraigsList. Mention your website in both stores and the ad. This is to give you good links and get you internet exposure.

5) Get yourself a market stall or mall kart to sell more. Attend regularly to establish your brand image. This gets you know locally.

6) Get yourself a good brochure designed. Use a photography student if need be - they get good exposure, a reference and a portfolio and you get no cost photos.

7) Offer small items to big charities etc. This gets you exposure.

8) Offer talks to local large clubs and set up a small table with your brochures and small items for sale. This is called "back of the room" sales.

9) Set up adverts offering bespoke tailoring. Connect with wedding planners and similar to offer couture.

10) Get a business plan together and explain what sponsorship and sponsor remuneration you are seeking within the plan.

11) Keep making small items to introduce your brand and range. Send some off to potential sponsors with your brochure and an Introductionary letter and your business plan.

12) Contact big companies and ask if they want to sponsor a fashion show. Offer a fashion show to charities. Send them your brochure. Offer charity auction your small items to auction.

13) Keep expanding your range as you can afford.

14) Contact small boutiques and offer to supply their shops.

15) If this is in your area then offer uniforms to businesses, clubs and sports clubs. Do an internet search and tender for this work.

Put the above into a marketing plan, make your own personal adjustments and work on it weekly and daily. Good luck.

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Lee Lister is a Business Consultant with more than 25 year's consultancy experience for many household names. She is known as The Bid Manager or The Biz Guru.
From an early age she began an unparalleled journey through business consulting that continues to span across the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. She has consulted for a considerable number of companies all over the world. Specialising in business change management, start up consultancy and trouble shooting. Lee's experience in marketing and internet marketing is also keenly sought after.

She is a prolific published writer of books, ebooks and articles and can easily be found on major search engine and Amazon. Her books include: FastTrack Bid Management, Proposal Writing For Smaller Businesses, How Much Does It Cost To Start A Business, Entrepreneur's Apprentice and a series of Start My New Business books that do as they say in the title!

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http://www.Bid-Manager.com
http://www.MarketingGuerrillas.com
http://www.StartMyNewBusiness.com

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