I took a week off writing last week. I was busy setting up a few things and didn’t really have an update so I skipped a week. In my last post I spoke about developing psychological resilience. The context of the post was starting a business in general, but more specifically for me right now, being able to explore other manufacturers. I’ve taken my own advice and I’m officially ‘seeing other people.’
The hardest part of pivoting, is deciding to do so and taking the first step. Since I made the decision and took the first step it feels so good to be talking to manufacturers again. I’m still hoping my original manufacturers come through, but at least now I’ll have options. I have lots of different ways of finding manufacturers, one of which is Sewport. They have a good user interface and lots of interesting resources.
The first step to working out whether any of these new manufacturers will work out is to get their construction samples. These will be samples in plain fabric and not our bespoke prints. Once I see the quality of construction, if it’s a go, we’ll move into samples of clothing in our actual prints. I’m praying – really praying – I can get one of these manufacturers of the ground.
“I honestly can’t wait to see 4 years of investigations, stops, starts, forwards and backwards steps all come to life.”
As I’ve discussed before, I’m trying to start with small MOQs so I can get customer feedback, but I am so excited. I honestly can’t wait to see 3 years of investigations, stops, starts, forwards and backwards steps all come to life.
This is one of those pieces of advice that seems so obvious but I constantly forget. Seek out experts. In an earlier post I wrote about no man being an island. When I wrote about this my emphasis was emotional support, this post is about practical skills. You should look for people who know things …
We’re on the move friends! I could barely contain my excitement this week when our new tech packs arrived. My first tech packs were completed in March last year – I actually can’t believe it – over a year ago! I produced them in a bit of a mish-mashed way: I hired a designer to …
I could write a whole series about doing ‘x’ consistently is hard – especially when it comes to this business. Writing is definitely one of the top 3. I write because I want to document this process and honestly so I can look back one day and remember how I felt as I was starting. …
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Seeing Other People
I took a week off writing last week. I was busy setting up a few things and didn’t really have an update so I skipped a week. In my last post I spoke about developing psychological resilience. The context of the post was starting a business in general, but more specifically for me right now, being able to explore other manufacturers. I’ve taken my own advice and I’m officially ‘seeing other people.’
The hardest part of pivoting, is deciding to do so and taking the first step. Since I made the decision and took the first step it feels so good to be talking to manufacturers again. I’m still hoping my original manufacturers come through, but at least now I’ll have options. I have lots of different ways of finding manufacturers, one of which is Sewport. They have a good user interface and lots of interesting resources.
The first step to working out whether any of these new manufacturers will work out is to get their construction samples. These will be samples in plain fabric and not our bespoke prints. Once I see the quality of construction, if it’s a go, we’ll move into samples of clothing in our actual prints. I’m praying – really praying – I can get one of these manufacturers of the ground.
As I’ve discussed before, I’m trying to start with small MOQs so I can get customer feedback, but I am so excited. I honestly can’t wait to see 3 years of investigations, stops, starts, forwards and backwards steps all come to life.
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