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Become a Boutique Owner

Open Your Own Clothing Store

Do you love clothes and shopping? You may already spend a lot of time in boutiques, but nothing compares to the fun and financial rewards of having your own boutique.

About a Career as a Boutique Owner

As a boutique owner, you choose the products and you set the prices, and then open your doors to customers eager to snap up your latest selections and show them off to all their friends.

Boutique owners are insiders to fashion trends long before the general public. You will have an opportunity to use your creativity every day, from creating window displays to putting together a knock-out ensemble for customers who value your expert advice.

Retail fashion is a solid business, with constant demand for new clothing products created by fashion designers and the ever-changing whims of celebrities. And boutiques are chic – people value the personalized service and attention they receive, the cozy ambiance, and the unique merchandise that only a boutique can offer.

Guide to Become a Boutique Owner

If being a boutique owner sounds like the career of your dreams, the FabJob Guide to Become a Boutique Owner is for you! In this e-book you will discover how you can get started and succeed in the retail clothing business.

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Guide author Debbra Mikaelsen is a fashion industry consultant who has been working in the fashion business for over 15 years. She has worked with fashion designers, apparel wholesalers, garment manufacturers, and clothing retailers, so she knows this business from top to bottom.

For this guide she draws on her own experience in the fashion and retailing industries, as well as interviews with other successful boutique owners.

The guide covers topics of vital importance to anyone who wants to start a boutique business in the United States or Canada, plus helpful advice for opening a clothing store in any country. The guide includes:

How to Start a Boutique Business

  • Deciding what to sell in your boutique
        • Womens clothing boutique
        • Menswear boutique
        • Childrens clothing boutique
  • Choosing a specialty if you wish, for example some specialties in women's wear include:
        • Accessories
        • Business clothing
        • Casual wear/jeans
        • Formalwear and bridal wear
        • Lingerie
        • Hats
        • Maternity
        • Outerwear
        • Shoes
        • Sportswear
        • Swimwear
        • Special sizes: petites, plus-size, tall
        • Teen boutique
        • Yoga or active wear
  • How to create a boutique business plan
  • Choosing a name for your boutique
  • Start-up costs, including sample start-up budgets for low-end and high-end boutiques
  • Where to get start-up financing for your boutique
  • An overview of options for your boutique:
        • Buying an established boutique
        • Opening a new boutique
        • Boutique franchising
  • How to evaluate a potential location
        • Malls, strip malls, and stand-alone locations
        • The square footage you need
        • The neighborhood and business mix
  • How to obtain your boutique merchandise
        • Where to buy it from
        • How much to start with
        • How to create the right “mix” of clothing
        • Placing orders for each season

Managing Your Boutique Business

  • How to set your prices
        • Determining mark-up and margins
        • Strategic pricing techniques
        • Safely discounting merchandise
  • How to manage your staff
        • Hiring and evaluations
        • Writing a cost-effective staff schedule
        • Bonuses and commissions
  • How to handle your daily cash sales
  • Theft prevention methods
  • How to do a physical inventory
  • Effective selling in a boutique
  • Customer service techniques that work
  • Attracting customers through free publicity and advertising
  • Keeping customers loyal with the “little extras”
  • Hosting events like fashion shows, trunk shows, and sample sales

Plus you will find even more resources and advice, including:

  • Valuable samples including:
        • An explanation of what to put in each section of your boutique business plan with brief samples of each section
        • Sample start-up budgets for a small boutique and a medium size boutique
        • Sample merchandise and supply order forms
        • Sample boutique consignment agreement
        • Sample interview questions for boutique employees
        • Sample inventory count sheets
        • Sample staffing schedule and staff performance evaluation form
        • Sample new boutique press release
        • Checklists you can use to evaluate:
              • competing boutiques
              • neighborhoods where you're considering locating your boutique
              • retail spaces
  • How to get professional help to start a retail clothing store business
  • Ways to get your inventory for the least amount of money
  • A special section on selling bridal wear
  • And more!

How to Get the Boutique Owner Guide

You can have all this and more for an incredible price. It can cost hundreds of dollars to take courses on starting a business, and chances are they will not include specific information about opening a boutique business. The FabJob Guide to Become a Boutique Owner contains some of the best business advice you could get from other sources, plus much more.

The information in this guide can save you many hours of research, help you avoid some common mistakes, and give you information you need to open your own boutique, whether you want to start a women's clothing store, men's wear store, or children's clothing store.

This guide has been selling for up to $39.95 U.S for an e-book alone. SPECIAL OFFER: If you buy the e-book today, you can have this valuable insider information for the incredible price of only $19.97.

You can earn back the price of the guide many times over your very first day in business. Plus this guide can help you start your own boutique business and open a clothing store much more quickly and profitably.

If you believe you deserve to have the career of your dreams, this guide is for you. It gives you what you need to know about how to open a boutique and become a successful clothing store owner.

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