Fashion For Profit

The Fashion Business is a unique industry: artistic and creative, profit-driven and demanding. Fashion For Profit will take you to the heart of the business of fashion and give you the real facts.

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A good idea and the right market niche can lead to your ultimate dream of running a successful apparel business. However, it is a multi faceted industry with many important components that should be fully understood before taking that leap of faith. One missing link could mean failure. Knowledge is empowering and could save your savings! Fashion For Profit is the book that will support your ideas and help you to realize your dream. You will not only learn what you need to know, but what you want to know.

As you browse this 360-page book you will note that you will get more and more excited. Each chapter brings definitive information about each specific area of apparel manufacturing. You will find that many of the questions you thought would never be addressed anywhere are answered here in clear and understandable terms.

Frances Harder, designer, entrepreneur is also the founder of the LA based FBI (Fashion Business Inc.) an educational 501 c (3) non profit which provides much needed business intelligence and support to smaller creative apparel companies. www.Fashionbizinc.org

Order : Fashion for Profit (Revised Edition with Retail Chapter)

Title: Fashion For Profit the book

Author: Frances Harder

Published: New revised 7th edition

Contact Information: Harder Publications
3402 Tanglewood Lane, Rolling Hills Estates, CA. 90274

Tel: 310 541 7196
Fax: 866 460 7753

email: info@FashionForProfit.com

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Fashion For Profit DVD 2 hour Seminar Supplement to the book Fashion For Profit

From Design Concept to Apparel Manufacturing.

The contents of this 2 hour seminar will assist and enlighten you in investigating your market niche, legal and licensing requirements, financial requirements, product development, production, costing, branding and marketing, to ultimately opening your own retail store.

This seminar features: author of Fashion For Profit Frances Harder who is also the founder of the LA based apparel business development center the Fashion Business Incorporated. www.Fashionbizinc.org

Other guests include: Greg Wiseman attorney at law Silver & Freedman, Century City, CA. Pam Roberts PITCH PR & Marketing to the apparel industry, LA. Hanna Hartnell designer/store owner, Santa Monica, CA

Fashion For Profit - Forms For Profit  CD - List of forms

Being prepared for doing business in a professional manner means using the correct forms and procedures common in the apparel industry. Forms For Profit will give you the templates, which can incorporate your own logo. These forms will save valuable time in getting it right!

Some forms, e.g. invoices, costing sheets, sales order forms have been built in a dynamic format so calculations can be achieved in Microsoft Excel. 

Forms For Profit Blanks plus examples:

$  Sales Order Forms Blank - plus example 

$  Order Confirmation - Blank - plus example

$  Invoice  - Blank plus example

$  Cutting Ticket Blank plus example

$  Bill of Materials Blank plus example

$  Pick Ticket Blank plus example

$  Purchase Order Blank plus example

$  Packing Slips Blank plus example

$  Cost Sheets Blank - plus example

$  Pattern Card Blank - plus example

$  Specification Sheets Blank - plus example

$  Sales Rep Agreement

$  Contractors Agreement

$  Credit Check Application

      And More

Also included on this valuable CD are professional body templates that can be used as a base for illustrations, and/or specifications. Print and use, or, use as a guide for Illustrator software for design development
Women's, men's, children's templates.

Costing For Profit - Look after the cents and the dollars will take care of themselves Every entrepreneur's ultimate goal is to run a successful company. Understanding the complexity of how to cost effectively will play a major part in achieving this goal.

The Fashion Business is a unique industry: artistic and creative, profit-driven and demanding. Costing For Profit will take you to the heart of costing and give you the real facts so you can realize a profitable future for your business.

A good idea and the right market niche can lead to your ultimate dream of running a successful apparel business. However, for how long? It is a multi faceted industry with many important components that should be fully understood when calculating your selling cost. Determining all the costs and all the important components that make up a cost sheet will be the key to your company's success. One missing item or miscalculation from the cost sheet could lead to the loss of a season's profit, and if not realized in time could ultimately lead to the failure of your company.

As you browse this powerful little book you will note that you will get more and more excited as you begin to understand what is needed to do in order to realize a profit. Each page brings definitive information about each specific area of apparel costing. You will find that many of the questions you thought would never be addressed anywhere are answered here in clear and understandable terms.

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What the Book Covers

Fashion For Profit is organised by the component areas of apparel manufacturing and running an apparel business, with a chapter bringing definitive information about each specific area. That structure matches how a clothing business actually fails or succeeds: rarely on the design idea alone, and usually on one of the less glamorous components — costing, production, or selling — being misunderstood. The revised edition is described as the Revised Edition with Retail Chapter, and the ordering details name it as the new revised 7th edition, so readers are directed to the edition that includes the retail coverage. The book is written to be read by people preparing to commit their own money: its stated aim is that you will learn not only what you need to know, but what you want to know, in clear and understandable terms.

About the Author

Frances Harder writes as a designer and entrepreneur. She founded the LA based FBI (Fashion Business Inc.), an educational 501(c)(3) non-profit which provides much needed business intelligence and support to smaller creative apparel companies — the same audience this book addresses. That background matters for a business-of-fashion book: the advice comes from an organisation whose work is supporting smaller creative apparel companies through the practicalities of the trade, rather than from theory alone. Readers who want the organisation behind the book can find Fashion Business Inc. linked from this page, at www.Fashionbizinc.org.

Ordering Details Given With the Book

The ordering information carried on this page names the title as Fashion For Profit, the author as Frances Harder, published as the new revised 7th edition, with contact through Harder Publications, 3402 Tanglewood Lane, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274, tel 310 541 7196, fax 866 460 7753, e-mail info@FashionForProfit.com. The book is also noted as available to shop for on Amazon. Readers preparing to start a line may also want the career guide books, pattern making books and retail math books linked from this page, which cover the neighbouring skills a new apparel business needs.