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Creative Industries Master Class
Rachael Hobbs – Director
www.bridgeandstitch.com
24th April 2013
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How you work / your business model
CLIENT • Start Up
• One-off
• Small
business
• Exclusive
DESIGN • Development
• Spec Sheets
• Artwork
PATTERN
CUTTING
AND
GRADING
SOURCING • Factories
• Fabrics
• Components
• Trims
FACTORIES • CMT
• Knitwear
• Jersey
• Outerwear
PRODUCTION
• Sampling
• Fittings
• Alterations
• Production
FINISHING
S • Embroidery
• Labels
• Swing
Tickets
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What to do before setting up your business
What steps you should take before setting up your business: • Market Research – primary and secondary • Competitor Analysis • Consumer Reaction • Marketing Plan (Product, Place, Price, Promotion, Distribution) • Logistics (Legalities, Operation, Premises, Licences, Insurance) • Finance (Cashflow, profit and loss, blance sheets, sensitivity analysis, funding, survival budget) • Create a business plan • Funding / Investors
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Entrepreneurial Traits
Level Headed
Hard working and driven Constantly moving and adjusting to new surroundings
Strong Willed
Confident Born Leader
Self Belief Ambitious but realistic
Calculated Risk Taker Thrive off of responsibility
Determined
Common Sense Adaptable
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Challenges and how to over come them
How I have over come them: • The Hive • Mentor • Professionalism • Strong Willed • Don’t let yourself be walked over – stick to your gut instincts • Determination • Learning curve
Challenges: • Setting up the business • Understanding finance • Giving advise to your elders • Factories making mistakes and demanding clients • Running the business on a day to day basis • Learning as you work
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Pro’s and Con’s
Con’s: • If you are ill, nothing will get done • Lonely • Balancing all aspects of work e.g. finance, admin, marketing etc on top of your day to day tasks • No-one to tell you off if you don’t work or start late • You can never get away from the business entirely
Pro’s: • Time off and working hours to suit you • Work for yourself so no-one to answer to • Sense of pride and achievement • Experience • Can pick and choose who you want to work with
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Ambitions for your business and yourself
Ambitions / Goals (Business):
Have an Intern
Employ a team of designers, pattern cutters and researchers
Have my own factory and manufacturing unit
Ambitions / Goals (Personal):
Get on the property ladder
Be able to support a family
Sell the business in my late 40’s and be semi-retired
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Thought for the day
You will get as much out of the business as what you put in to it, just remember – in order to survive you need to be
willing to adapt to the demand.
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Creative Industries Master Class
Rachael Hobbs – Director
07710-983-700
www.bridgeandstitch.com
24th April 2013
THANK YOU!