Garment Label Requirements
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Garment Label Requirements

Garment Label Requirements You Need To Know What should you write on your garment labels? Do you even need them? Some things you can put

23 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Starting An Apparel Brand
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23 Questions – Get Ready To Launch Your Brand

You will be your own boss, no one will be there to make sure you put in the work and stick to your deadlines. You will live your brand, working 24/7. Focus on your dream, your vision and mission of the brand don’t let anyone or anything get in your way. Here are some questions that can help you see if you are cut out for this or not.

How to create a fashion mood board
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How To Create A Fashion Mood Board

A fashion mood board is a fantastic way to set the visual direction for a clothing brand project. In this post, you will get actionable mood board tips so you can go and create yours asap.

Style Number
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How To Set Your Style Numbers

When you are designing your collection, you need to assign style numbers to each design. The style numbers will help you to better communicate with your retailers, agents, distributors, suppliers, pattern makers, and everyone else you are working with. Here is a style number system for you to use.

How To Source Fabric
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How To Source Fabrics For Your Brand

How do I work with minimum order quantities? How can you tell the difference between an average fabric and a higher quality fabric? Are there other ways to source fabric? How do I find out about trade fairs and marketplaces?

Apparel Entrepreneurship Define Customer
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How To Define Your Customer

By identifying your target customer for your apparel brand, it will be easier to design, strategize your segments and develop an effective marketing plan. 

Apparel Entrepreneurship Product Range Plan
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Use A Product Range Plan For Your Apparel Brand

A product range plan is a detailed written overview of your entire collection. It helps you keep track of product parameters such as style numbers and names, number of styles, colors, variations, and features. It also includes financial information and sales forecasting.

Garment Price Calculator
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Garment Price Calculator

The Garment Price Calculator helps you to estimate your Wholesale Price, Retail Price, and your wanted Margin. It also helps you to estimate How Much It Will Cost to produce your wanted quantity, and What Your Profit Will Be depending on if you sell wholesale or direct to consumer.

Apparel Entrepreneurship Quality Control
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Quality Control

Quality control means ensuring, at a minimum cost, that the quality requirements of a product is being achieved at every stage of manufacturing, from raw materials to boxed stock.

Fashion Tech Packs
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Fashion Tech Pack Templates

Get Fashion Tech Pack Templates, Design Vector Flats, Croquis Templates, Bill Of Materials Templates, & Measurement List Templates.

Apparel Entrepreneurship Where to bootstrap?
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Tips For Bootstrapping Your Startup

Starting a new apparel brand can be challenging. It is even more challenging to do it with limited funds. However this is a reality many of you are facing, but you don’t want it to stop your plans. So how are your money best spent? What should you pay for and where can you save your money? Read our guide to bootstrapping.

9 mistakes fashion startups make and how to avoid them
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9 Mistakes Fashion Startups Make & How To Avoid Them

Many entrepreneurs have launched successful apparel brands. Why not learn from their success, so you can launch faster and avoid expensive mistakes. Birthing a clothing line will take some time and effort, and if you really want it to fly, it will take some serious strategizing and planning before launching. So skip the headaches and the stress and read about 9 common mistakes and increase your chances of succeeding from the start.

Apparel Dropshipping
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How To Increase Your Apparel Business By Using Dropshipping

If you are an existing clothing brand that wants to expand, whether it is for creating a lifestyle brand, get into new segments, add personalization, or just having more styles to sell and generate more income, you should seriously consider dropshipping as a viable option to do this.

Mindset for successful apparel entrepreneurs
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Mindset For Successful Apparel Entrepreneurs

We are covering 5 simple actions for how you can shift into a growth mindset. This shift and these actions you take based on your new growth mindset can result in a massively successful apparel business and life.

Fashion Design Plagiarism
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Protecting Your Designs From Plagiarism In The Fashion Industry

Many designers are afraid of this happening to them or they have already had some bad experiences with issues regarding this problem. We are talking about plagiarism and copying. How to protect yourself and deal with someone or another brand knocking off your products or design.

Deadstock Fabrics
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Deadstock Fabrics 101

What is deadstock, how sustainable is it and what are the pros and cons? We are laying it out in this article, so you can make informed decisions moving forward with your business.

The Apparel Entrepreneurship Podcast
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AEP058 – 5 Tips For Selling More During The Holiday Season

The Apparel Entrepreneurship Podcast is finally back. In today’s podcast episode, we are talking about how you can sell more during the upcoming holiday season. We give you 5 actionable tips for making the best of the period from Halloween to New Year.

The Apparel Entrepreneurship Podcast
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AEP057 – Success Tips For Emerging Designers With Brian Hill

Today we are extremely excited to share an in-depth conversation with our friend Brian Hill – the executive Director of Phoenix Fashion Week. Brian is also the host of the Fashion Rewired Podcast that Ana was a guest on a while ago and in today’s podcast episode we chat about so many great, inspiring things.

The Apparel Entrepreneurship Podcast
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AEP055 – Design Innovation, Brand Building & Awards

Today we have the incredible honor of interviewing a design and brand building rockstar! Reinhard Pascher has 30 years of experience in product innovation and brand building. He is the co-founder of the brand agency Pascher + Heinz in Munich Germany. He works for both clients and agencies at an executive level and he has developed concepts and strategies for upcoming and leading sports brands like Nike, Odlo, Adidas, Volvo, Dynafit, Atomic, Head, Salewa, Toray, Red Bull and many many more.

The Apparel Entrepreneurship Podcast
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AEP053 – Sell More Products By Nailing Your Unique Value Proposition

In today’s podcast episode, we are talking about how you can sell more products by nailing your unique value proposition, and by figuring out your niche. What is a niche and why is it so important? We are also discussing what’s not a niche, but instead a market segment, product area, product category, or trend?

Grow Your Fashion Brand With A Blog
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Grow Your Fashion Brand With A Blog

By consistently creating content on your blog, your customers will get accustomed to visiting your website weekly. This will increase your brand awareness and your sales. 

Apparel Entrepreneurship The Environmental Impact of Fashion
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The Environmental Impact Of Fashion

The apparel industry has a significant impact on the environment. Fashion is a 3 trillion dollar industry, and it is continuously growing. Unfortunately so is the environmental impact. We should all ask us the questions: what do we want to do & what can we do about the harm caused by our industry.

The Apparel Entrepreneurship Podcast
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AEP048 – Design Your Collection

Listen to The Apparel Entrepreneurship Podcast AEP048 This is the fourth part of a 6-part series covering the Apparel Entrepreneurship Success Path. This 6-step process

Clothing Brand Ecommerce Site
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Create An Ecommerce Site For Your Clothing Brand

In this article about how to create an ecommerce site for your clothing brand, you will learn how to create a cost-efficient e-com store for your business. There is no need to pay large sums for the design and development of your site. Set up your e-commerce in no time with an existing, well established open-source systems.

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