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Growing Your Fashion Business

September 13, 2018 by admin

If you own a fashion startup, it can be difficult to go past the first stage and achieve growth in your business, even if the products you sell are beautiful and desirable. There are so many things that can hold you back from securing more finance,s to making enough products to simply getting your name out there.

If you are struggling for whatever reason, here are some simple things you can do to grow your business and make headway in the world of fashion:

Do Some Serious SEO

You are not going to have much success in growing your business if few people can find it, which is why it is always worth reviewing your search engine optimization practices. If you aren’t seeing a lot of traffic to your website, it might be worth employing an SEO expert who can find the right keywords to bring those fashionistas to you and optimize your online presence so that you feature further up those search engine results.

Consider Selling on Other Sites

Although you should undoubtedly build your own business website if you’re serious as making it in the fashion world, it might be worth, while your company is still young, selling on other platforms so that you can get your creations seen by as many people as possible. Selling just a few of your creations on a platform like Etsy, for example, will boost your viewing figures because that platform is very well known and has millions of visitors every day. You can use that as a stepping off point to direct people to your own website (put a business card in with the package) and to boost your profile.

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Think About Rebranding

If you haven’t been seeing the success you expected and you know that it isn’t because your purses or garments or whatever aren’t good enough, you may want to think about whether your branding is holding you back. In the fashion world, you really need to create a desirable brand that appeals to your target audience if you want to build up a following. So, do some market research and see where the land lies and if you don’t think you’re quite hitting the mark, check out this rebranding checklist and start making changes. You might be surprised how much this can help.

Attend Fashion Shows

Okay, so you’re probably not going to be invited to Paris or London Fashion week as a small fashion startup, but are there any smaller fashion events near you? Look at what you need to do to show your creations there and work hard to secure a place. The more people who see your creations and the more publicity you get, the better it will be for your business.

Use Recipe for Press

Recipe for Press is a fantastic tool for entrepreneurs which helps you to pitch stories about your business to the professional press so that you can generate a buzz around your creations. Their staff are all seasoned professionals in the business and they’ll help you to get write-ups in publications such as Conde Nast and InStyle, which will undoubtedly give you a boost.

Finding A Perfect Car For You

November 29, 2017 by admin

This post is sponsored by Cars.com

Looking for the best car that can accommodate your needs? well, you should consider some factors first before you’ll get a certain car for yourself. What I mean about that? as you can see there are a bunch of cars available today in the market and others pick a car based on their desire not on how useful it was on their daily lives hence I was here to help you out to pick on what the best or perfect car for yourself.

First, if you are just sole who’d be using the car. I think the regular 4 seaters is the best option for you but if you have a family to cater like 5 of you needs a ride, I think vans are perfectly suits in your needs than to the regular one, right? and you can find all these cars available at Cars.com as the company caters all the brands and type o cars in today’s latest release car’s types. Just go on to their nearest shop your place and have place your inquiry on how you can get the right car for you. Also, they have an loan options available unlike to other companies that are just dong the same old-schooled way in obtaining the car.

So yeah, that’s it for now and I hope this may help you a bit in knowing where to buy a car and what kind of car you should consider with!

Draw Out Your Drawing Talents With These 5 Jobs

February 1, 2017 by admin

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Art is often ridiculed as a subject that won’t get you a job. But being able to draw well is in fact a valuable skill that can lead to a very well-paid profession. Here are a few examples of jobs that require your drawing talents.

Graphic design

Graphic design is essential to almost every product around us. On top of technical drawing, many products will require a sketch drawing which is freehand and requires more artistic ability. Branding such as packaging, logo-building and ad design also relies heavily on the more arty side of drawing, with designers having to draw cartoon characters or inventing iconographies. Familiarising yourself with certain graphics design programmes such as Adobe Illustrator can be useful (there are many Illustrator training courses available). Graphic design tablets and styluses have made digital drawing a lot easier – you can practically draw as if you were using paper and pen, with the added bonus that you can digitally erase.

Cartoons

Finding full-time work as a cartoonist is difficult but if you look hard enough you’ll find it. You may not land a job illustrating a comic strip or providing the animation for a Disney movie, but you may be able to provide political cartoons to newspapers or provide humorous cartoons for a kids magazine. If you’re bold enough, you can even take to the streets and offer caricatures. Many cartoonists will work on a freelance basis. Build up a portfolio and you’ll eventually be able to attract your own clients.

Illustrating

Publishing companies will often work with illustrators, providing writers with images for their books. Getting one’s foot in the door can be difficult – many will create blogs of their artwork and then approach publishing companies and authors individually. Children’s books are a particularly good way in as these are more picture-heavy. Illustrators may also be required for instruction manuals – whilst this can sometimes be more technical, pictures of people and hands may be needed that require a more skilled artist.

Album artwork

Whilst some musicians are happy to use a photo in their press pack, others prefer to have hand-drawn artwork to go with their albums and singles. This can be a lucrative market, although may require a lot of networking with local musicians. Eventually you can build up a portfolio which you can use to attract clients. Band, PR companies and music agents may recommend you based on your previous work.

Courtroom sketching

Before photography, courtroom sketching was commonplace. It has recently become more widespread, with many courts banning photographers. Courtroom sketches involve drawing a picture of courtroom proceedings and require a certain level of drawing talent. You don’t need to be legally trained, although an art degree may be favourable in many cases, as well as the ability to work in a short time frame.

How to Roll Your Pants the Right Way (Pinroll Your Pants)

March 13, 2016 by admin

I know most of you men are doing this the wrong way, I included. Hence, let me share with you this awesome tutorial video on how you can roll your pants the right way so by the next time you trying to pull off your outfit you’ll know on how to make it dope and proper.

Every men should know this little thing hence they can be looking neat and clean as they need to pull off certain outfit also be mindful that “dress to impress” is powerful quite sometimes.

This video is brought to you by: GQ

Men’s Summer Essentials

February 8, 2016 by admin

For men fashion, there’s actually a bunch of accessories or pieces that we could pull off this summer season for you to fits in. And some of these are these colorful accessories that are might already available at your fave stores. Other brands called them summer essentials as they’re only be use or meant only for the summer season – but of course as you are fond enough, like I do, to wear off these in some other times or season, it still fine though as long you know on how to mix and match your total outfit so that it may perfectly fits based on the season or event, perhaps, you’d trying to attend with..

Basically, what are these summer essentials?

First, I think some good pair of wristband are proper to be listed out as it can gives a great accentual and summery looks in you as you have them. However though, you should bear in mind too, that not all wristbands are proper to wear as they were some to meant for formal wear not of summer looks one. But any colorful bands are great for summer even plain black one actually as long you can pair it up through these colors wrist candy and everything will gone look perfect, for sure.

Also outfit, you should consider it too. You can now wear something light as the summer season comes along, wear this plain white tee or some loose tees for the humid season and just pair it off with your colored pants or shorts and definitely it may look so perfect on your end.

Definitely, a great footwear, a comfortable footwear perhaps, are one you should seek about for summer because as we all knew summer is too hot to handle hence a great cool footwear is a must!

How To: Style Your Hair 3 Ways

September 16, 2015 by admin

Video Credit: AJ O’Day

It’s been quite awhile when the last time I updated this blog with my series of post called ” how to”. Because I am busy doing some of my offline tasks which needed to be settle or to be fixed real soon. And since I think that I did whatever matters needed to be done already, hopefully I did it right this time, I can now find a time to search lil bit on what should I post up for the category and this video over youtube from AJ O’Day is the right one to post up and gone this blog updated.

Actually, I am not good in styling my hair because I simply like to have this right after bed kind of hairstyle..lol meaning, I dont want to comb often neither to pull the fringe up just to have the trendy kind of looking hairstyle. But of course, I’d still wanted myself to be looking dope by having different hairstyle and I think, this video may help us all on how we can style our hair in 3 ways. Go watch the video now and let me know if does a help on your or not. Also, thanks to AJ O’Day for making this video up for us all lazy men who wants to try out different styling for our hair that we may rock with…

Fashionable Winter Clothes For Men

December 15, 2014 by admin

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If you are a truly fashionable man, you will look your best and dress to the nines even if it is winter. Bracing for the onslaught of wild winter weather with hats, gloves, sweaters, and scarfs is rough stuff but it is indeed a great time to showcase how much of a stylish guy you are. Staples like jeans and wool sweaters are absolutely a must but it does not have to be limited to only these clothes because you can actually have more choices to include into your fashion repertoire during winter. Cashmere and wool tweeds are ideal if you want to look more formal or put together.

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If you want a more casual look, go for wool men’s sweaters and layer them with cotton collared cotton shirts or turtlenecks paired with jeans or cotton khakis. Vests are the ultimate layering piece. Throw it over a sweater to keep your limbs covered. Stick with a classic winter hat like basic ski caps, fedoras, newsboy hats, and bowlers. You can also put on overcoats like leather bomber jackets, leather car coat, and oversize puffer jacket like padded and quilted jackets. For a sporty look, keep in mind that your clothes should be both fashionable and functional. The materials of which should protect from extreme weather conditions.

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Furthermore, invest in a slim wool coat, a versatile raincoat, a heavier nylon jacket with removable layers, and at least two pairs of gloves. Other winter must-haves are scarfs in different designs and colors and functional winter boots that also look fashionable. You can find all these awesome winter essentials for men at East Dane, the brother site of Shopbop.com. They have a wide selection of clothes (shirts, jeans, outerwear, pants, polos/tees, suits/blazers, the best sweatshirts etc.), shoes (boots, lace-ups, sandals, and sneakers), and accessories (bags, belts, hats, socks, jewelry etc.).

Madras Blazer For Men this Fall/Winter Season

October 13, 2014 by admin

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Fall season is fast approaching and might you have it already where you resides. But for me, it’s still summer though because I placed into tropical corner of the world but often times, I’d still feels the cool breeze of fall once the calendar turns in to its last month, of the year. And at this season, I see to it that I can wrap myself up some great finds that can actually makes me look in trend and quite fashionable. Because admit or not, summer season is quite lame to wear of or pull off your great finds right? so I really needed to wait until the weather to gets cold a bit and by the time fall had comes, I think this is one perfect to show off my great style and trying to layer up a bit to create my own statement.

For this fall season, I was thinking off to wear this blazer or coat that is made of madras, an high quality of fabric made in India, and as I checked in some famous brands in the market today, I was pleased then to knew that this madras are been using already for their recent collections as well to their upcoming ones. That’s why having yourself an madras made of coat is a must as you wanted yourself to be in trend this fall and winter season. Also, this madras coats are perfectly for summer either due to it’s colour and how the pattern made for it. Just know on how to mix and matches your clothes for this blazer to be suits-in on your summer finds.

If you want to learn further details about this kind of coat. I really encourage you to take a look over Google for more further explanation why we men should have this madras coat or blazer.

INOX: The Watch That’s Made to Last

September 4, 2014 by admin

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A man’s outfit is not complete without a watch, no matter how simple his attire is since it is usually the only accessory that he wears. Nevertheless, the kind of watch a man wears reflects the kind of personality he has. An elegant man will never be caught with a cheap watch and instead only wear a luxurious timepiece such as a Victorinox Swiss Army watch. Having been around for decades, Victorinox has certainly made its mark and will continue to do so for many more years. Certainly everybody knows about the Swiss Army Knife which is their signature item. In keeping up with their ideal of being innovative, they have diversified their product range to include not just watches but also luggage, clothing, fragrances, and cutlery.

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Victorinox Swiss Army watches are proud to have their place in the tradition of a family business established in Ibach, Switzerland 130 years ago. These watches are made from quality materials and have passed the highest standards of the Swiss watch making business. Not only are they known for their multifunctionality, stylishness, and durability but also because of their criteria that prioritizes technical know-how to upgrade practical service. These classic pieces are genuine precision instruments that will definitely endure time.

In celebration of the 130th anniversary of Victorinox, a new watch will be launched. It is called the INOX. It is strong and reliable in all weather conditions and is designed and built to defy different levels of stress such as shock, unusual vibration, and temperature changes. As a matter of fact it has passed a series of intensive battery strength tests which shows its excellent resistance earning the label a timepiece that is ‘made to last’. It has a 43 mm diameter reinforced stainless steel case, scratch resistant sapphire crystal with triple anti-reflection treatment, and is water resistant up to a depth of 200 meters or 660 feet.

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The INOX comes with an original “bumper” which is a removable protector composed of silicone and nylon that matches perfectly with the crown, the case and the back, and has the Swiss-made Ronda 7 quartz movement. This collection is available with dial and strap in black, khaki green or navy blue and has stamped indexes, luminous hour and minute hands, and date window at 4:30. The INOX is definitely a versatile watch not only because it is made to last but also because of its polished design.

Also, Victorinox had invited 250 bloggers in total for the Inox showcase in New York. You may check this link for more details.