BELIEF - "I have the ability to become a Designer"

Every aspiring Designer will believe that he/she has the ability, skills, experience to become a Designer and set up and launch a global fashion brand.

And they are right.
Believing in yourself is the first step towards success. However it is not the only one.

EXERCISE
Go and interview 10 Designers and ask them to honestly answer a few questions about their journey in the Fashion world. 
Make them think about past specific events, opportunities or challenges and ask them to give you the context, process and logic around the decisions that were made.
If they were to go back to that time but with the insight of today's experience, what would they do differently and why.

Be honest with yourself: Just give me a Buyer!

You must remember the Chinese proverb:

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

In Fashion, why do business owners prefer to just receive a fish every day?
ie rather than be trained how to fish.

The most frequent question we receive at GFM is:
I just want a Buyer!
Just find me an Agent!

ACCESS HOW TO GET BUYERS - Training Module.

Turbulent times require a Special Promotion

We thank you for visiting our web site and due to the challenging environment and turbulent times we live in, we must work together to support your business and our economy.

Setting up, managing and scaling up  a Fashion Brand is based on 3 pillars
Creativity - Your product/ Collection
Marketing / Communication
&
Business

The coronavirus (covid19) is serious yet it will be over soon yet it will certainly take a few months and another period to come back to normal.

In the meantime, it is the perfect opportunity to get together (121 or online) and build the foundations and strenghten your day to day operations.

Benefit from this offer over the next few months to support your Brand/ Retail business or Fashion project.

Retail / Wholesale - 4 hours consulting, operations audit and execution    
Normal Price £ 500 + VAT                 This month: £280 + VAT (UK total £336)

Full day consultancy, operations, audit and execution (10 hours)
Normal Price £900 + VAT (8 hours)    This month: £500 + VAT (10 hours)

THERE ARE ONLY 5 BOOKINGS POSSIBLE PER MONTH.

Act today +44 20 8576 6233  - International Clients (WhatsApp) +44 7951 198 769

Check the video below.

Webinar - Brand building made easy

Are you frustrated with how much efforts and funding it takes to set up and launch a Fashion Brand?
Are you looking to get immediately premium business of fashion content to successfully build a global and profitable brand?

Then you are at the right place - Watch this webinar.

Learn the TOP 6 P's to build your Fashion Brand - Profitably!

Free Retail Workshop - London / Petit Miracle

Petit Miracle, a not-for-profit organisation based in Shepherds Bush.

They work alongside and support Young Designers.

On November 13th, they have asked Global Fashion Management and Founder Thierry Bayle to deliver an insightful RETAIL WORKSHOP on

The Art & Science of Buying or How to forecast Sales at over 90% accuracy.

BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE (eventbrite).

Partnership in Nigeria

Nigeria is a country that dominates the Fashion Scene in Africa. 
They count an incredible number of Designers, many very talented.

It is, therefore, our job to help and support them in their journey from a Dream to Reality.

MONAYA ACADEMY / Zhalima Grazioni has decided to set up a partnership with GFM and the LFBA in order to offer the students of their school and the Young Designers at large business of fashion insight to start and grow a global and profitable Brand.

Time Management & great quotes

UPDATED VERSION

What will break or make your business succeed is time and priority management.
How do you rate yourself?
Do you regularly procrastinate tasks which are important in the business?
Do you just focus on the easy ones?
Do you only focus on the ones you love doing or those which are urgent but not important?

Let's check what other Business people say about Time Management and let's review some other great quotes from business leaders or successful people ...

Douglas Reid - Xerox Corp
"Management has the responsibility to explain to the employee how the routine job contributes to the business's objective. If management cannot explain the value of the job, then it should be eliminated and the employee reassigned."

Anthony Robbins- Motivational Speaker
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you 've always gotten."

Richard Branson - Founder Virgin Group
“One of my favorite tricks is to conduct most of my meetings standing up. I find it to be a much quicker way of getting down to business, making a decision and sealing the deal. When given the opportunity I often like to take things a step further – literally, with a walking meeting.”
“I think the number one thing that I take with me when I’m traveling is the notebook… I could never have built the Virgin Group into the size it is without those few bits of paper.” “If you have a thought but don’t write it down, by the next morning it may be gone forever.”

Read those from Warren Buffet, Malcolm Forbes ...

How to build a successful Global Fashion Brand?

UPDATED ARTICLE TO GIVE YOU MORE

As a Young or Emerging Designer, setting up and managing a Fashion Brand is not an easy project.

You are becoming a Business Designer so you know that the reasons why we fail are

1. we do not have the skills, knowledge or mastery to launch our Brand

2. we do not have the processes 

3. we do not deliver consistently

and 

4. we lack a coach, mentor or sounding board.

Read this insightful article on how to build a successful global Fashion Brand: The 6 Ps of Success.

Emerging Designers - Have your Pricing and Margins right

As a Fashion Start Up, Young Designer or Emerging Designers,
1. have you faced situations where Buyers love your collections yet they do not buy it?
2. are you frustrated not to know how to build your price point for your collection?
3. do you feel you may not be planning the right margin for your collection and you may never make a profit?
4. do you think Buyers are not buying because the mark up you give them is too low?
...

Those questions are all legitimate and over 30% of startups and young designers fail to have the right pricing and margins for them and for the retailers they sell to.

Can it be fixed?  YES
How long does it take?  A SHORT ONLINE COURSE
How much does it cost? £ 49  

6 Ws to better project manage - Build your Brand with success

UPDATED ARTICLE - Feel free to tell how we can improve it further.

The challenge of every Retail business or Fashion Designer is 
How to better handle project management?

It is about Art and Science.
One approach you do not want to forget is dead easy and can be summed up in the 
6 Ws.