Starting A Clothingline (E-Lusive)

[E-Lusive]

Hi! My Names Kirk Morris.
I am starting up a urban female clothingline for young adults. The clothing line is called E-Lusive. (E= Expression and Lusive= Free flowing movement) All togther it would be An Expressional Movement.

I have registered my business name/business and I have gotten embroidery, and screen printing ppl to assit me in my business when i need them. I wanted to know what else i need to get started.
Example - Sewing contractor
Manufacturer
Tee shirt Dyers

I'm just needing all the help i can get to start up so any tips or advice is need. maybe the basics please and thank you.

P.s I have a survey and I wanted to know how i can get that to alot of ppl?

What I have done So far is:

- Gotten Embrodiery/Screen Printers
- Registered business/name
- Made Surveys
- did half of business plan (Jote noted them)
- a rough logo

what else am i needing. help is need please and thank you

[FormPay]

Will you be the one designing the clothes? If so you will need to make a few designs before you try to sell them to clothing stores (if thats the route your going). But make a few designs and have prototypes made first. If you are going to try to get a loan, they will want to see some of your work.

[nahtino]

I read sumwhere , its not a gud thang to take out a loan for starting a fashion clothing company ..

but that just means you need to gte your stuff sorted out real good ... Im also in a similar stage .. although, Im into sports wear and apparell ...

[mrebrandstudios]

Hi Kirk,

You are headed in the right direction. You have to see what avenues your are going to use for sales. Either an online store or a retail store to sell your creations. Both are avenues to sell your product but are different when it comes to staging the merchandise for sale.

The online store will require the setup of the site & shopping cart, along with the logoistics for getting your items to the customer.

The retail store will require UPC code and may or may not have you EDI compliant.

To bring your product to a level above making them in the garage. You will need to have your tags & labels created as well.

It would be best to have more services done in one place versus your product spread throughout town. Looking into a FULFILLMENT HOUSE that could supply various levels of service could eliviate you from the back portion of the operation. Thus freeing you up to concentrate on marketing & designing your products.
Look at our site & see some of the services we have to offer.

Any questions feel free to contact us, we are always glad to help.

[rejoice]

Hey for those into starting their own clothing lines
http://www.t-shirtforums.com/
Awesome forum with plenty of information to be found

[SIMPLEROBB]

Don't listen to a word from mrebrandstudios. The guy is a professional con artist.

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