Fashion Business Mentoring

The team have developed a unique fashion industry mentoring and coaching system to lighten the load of day to day management of your business and give you feedback and support whether you are a designer, retailer or manufacturer. The guidance of experienced fashion industry managers and small business owners helps you make informed choices to run your business in a profitable and rewarding fashion.

Our mentors and coaches can offer support for a one off project or work with you on a regular basis (daily, weekly, monthly if required) to address issues in your business and provide a sounding board for new ideas and product development. mentors can offer a wealth of experience and provide you with strategies, tools and tactics to make your business work. Fashion businesses in the start up or growth stages need structured Mentoring from industry experts to help them build their businesses.

Chinese Fashion Partners Mentoring solutions are available from $650.

1. Marketing your Business

At we understand that often you are so busy working in and on your business that finding the energy to think of innovative ways to promote your products and services sometimes seems too hard. Jessica Cao is 's principal marketing consultant and has a great understanding of the industry and what works!

Chinese Fashion Partners offers a suite of marketing, promotional and strategic services that allows you to make a real impression in the trade and consumer marketplace.

Services include:

• Product development and positioning
• Public relations management
• Brand identity development and management
• Advertising consulting
• Collateral and logo design and development
• Sales strategy
• Market and industry research
• Customer relationship management strategy development
• Tender bid management and document preparation
• Internal and external communication strategy development and implementation

2. Business Planning

In today's competitive fashion marketplace, design and sourcing excellence alone will not make you successful. The real competitive advantage comes from having a well organised business with clearly defined systems and procedures to allow you to function at a highly efficient level.

Business owners are often so close to their business that it is difficult to see where improvements can be made. This has prompted to offer reasonably priced business "Health Checks" in order to diagnose issues and develop treatment plans to decrease business complexity. This is an opportunity to make your business the business you want it to be.

Health Check treatment schedules include:

• Review or development of business plan
• Assess business owner's work/life balance
• Assess core skills focus
• Review business processes
• Review business technology
• Analyse supplier and customer relationships
• Review financial processes
• Review business motivation
• Review HR practices

How do I improve my Business?

Once we have completed a health check on your business we are able to look at areas that can benefit from process and system improvement. Together we can develop a customised management solution to meets individual's business' needs. We can increase profitability and efficiency while providing business owners and staff with an improved quality of life and career development pathways.

Areas we can work on include:

• Cost reduction
• Business Management
• Process Management
• Purchasing systems
• Human resources management
• Industrial relations management
• Financial Management
• Software selection and implementation
• Regulatory affairs management
• Supplier and customer relationship management

Fashion Start Up Assistance

After 15 years experience in the development and application of innovative business approaches for the clothing, footwear and textile industries, we have developed our own Start Up Solutions to meet the industry's special needs. Whether you are a designer, manufacturer or retailer - We help you make money out of doing what you love!

With a unique and proven project combination of mentoring and consulting that is exclusive to Chinese Fashion Partners, the solutions provide a blueprint for day to day management of your business and allow you to concentrate on your core competencies of design and product sourcing. We take the guess work out of business success!

Start Up modules include:

• Sales growth
• Marketing and Promotional ideas
• Agent selection and management
• Financial management
• Sourcing
• Supply management
• Flexible Production methods
• Warehouse management
• Customer relationship management
• Human resources management

From Sketchbook to Store

Sometimes the task of turning dreams into reality can be daunting. understands this and can offer designers and product developers the benefit of our substantial product development assistance to get your dreams off the sketchbook and into the store.

We have the answers to all these questions and more!

Production Requirements

• How do we get the product to the customer?
• How do we know what is needed?
• How does the customer buy?
• What do we need to do to get the product in the customer's hands?

Sourcing assistance

• How do we find fabric suppliers?
• Can I source the finished product anywhere?
• How do we secure manufacturers?
• How do we manage product development processes?
• How can we tender for production services?
• How do we ensure service levels from external suppliers?

Product development processes

• Can this product be made?
• How will it be made?
• Who is capable of making the product?
• How do we select the right maker/supplier?

Product marketing systems

• How can I get favourable press for my range?
• How can I get my product into stores?
• How do I position my product in the marketplace?
• How do I make people want to buy my product?

Fashion Retail Marketing Solutions

• How can I manage my Retail Marketing/Branding?
• Can I get smarter about my Retail Operations?
• What is the best computer/CRM Solution for my retail business?
• How can consumer behaviour and Retail psychology knowledge improve my business?
• What are the important Retail design concepts that can help me grow my business?

Fashion Marketing Assistance

Chinese Fashion Partners offer a variety of programs. Call Chinese Fashion Partners today to ask about their latest thinktank offerings. Programs offered can cover design, product development, manufacturing, retail and marketing strategy.

The programs allow participants access to the significant fashion industry intellectual capital of Chinese Fashion Partner's consulting team through a combination of one on one mentoring and problem resolution products. In addition participants will gain the benefit of workshopping business issues with other non-competing professionals in intensive quarterly marketing strategy think tank sessions.

The services offer emerging designers, importers, retailers and wholesalers premium marketing strategy assistance from China's most respected fashion marketing firms at a price that won't break the bank. It will help you grow your business, think strategically, build supply chain and stockist networks in a structured and productive manner and best of all, you will be given support and tools resulting in a compelling marketing and business strategy plan by programme end.