Straight-talking advice for business owners who want to make and sell products in the UK. These podcast episodes cover everything from sourcing and manufacturing to pricing, marketing, and scaling your brand.
In this week’s episode I talk to Lucy Blackley who founded technology company BombyxPLM to help fashion business owners manage their product development. A Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system helps your business have total visibility over the development of your […]
On today’s episode we’re covering a topic that I know bothers a lot of you – how can you protect your designs from being copied. Dids MacDonald OBE has dedicated the last 20 years of her career in helping designers
In this episode I look back over the first 100 episodes of this show to find out what makes British-made businesses great. There are many common themes running running through the last 100 episodes and that I’ve heard again and
Lots of people try to launch a business or collection with a huge range of products. They then find they don’t have enough funds to manufacture everything they set out to. They make expensive mistakes and their initial vision may
If you’ve got an idea for a product but you’re tearing your hair out because you don’t know what the next steps are, this episode is for you. You may have tried approaching manufacturers to help you and had no
Are you making this one big mistake when developing a made in the UK product? On today’s episode I tell you how to make sure you avoid this costly error if you’re launching a brand made in the UK. It
It’s very difficult to raise your prices for a product after you have launched it or communicated it to your customers. So how you can make sure that you’ve got them right from the start? Whilst the common calculation for
Why do two similar looking items often cost totally different prices, even in the same shop? A lot of it is to do with the cost price of the product. Yet so many different factors can affect that cost price.
If you’re purchasing something new does seeking out a product that is made in the UK offer sustainability benefits over one made overseas? There’s a lot of talk about sustainability at the moment when it comes to the products that
The Truth About Branding…it’s not about a logo and it’s not about generating content Simon Middleton has had a parallel career for the last decade, as a brand strategy adviser, speaker, and author of books including the bestseller Build A
