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Boot Camp!
for Professional Fabricators and Workrooms
Location: |
Hoffer Furniture Conference Center
8100 Westpark, Houston, TX 77062 |
Dates: |
Dates to be Announced |
Time: |
Times to be Announced Soon |
Meals: |
Lunch will be provided both days |
Fees: |
$395.00 |
Lodging: |
Please contact Susan Kostelecky at 713/697-4110 for information about area lodging. |
This comprehensive seminar is geared towards those with new custom drapery workroom businesses and is jam-packed with vital information needed to successfully and efficiently run your workroom and set up accounts with suppliers.
Topics:
- Industry Standards (size of hems, pleats, fullness)
- Consultation ideas and formats (materials needed for client appointments, suggestions for methods of consultations, determining to charge for consultations or not)
- Forms
- Marketing (ideas to market your business to designers and/or homeowners, advertising, etc.)
- Suppliers, sources, vendors, products (linings, fabrics, hardware, rods, decorative hardware)
- Resources (education, books, websites, industry publications, seminars, industry groups)
- Deciding to work retail or wholesale or a combination
- Measuring
- Pricing
- and more!
Presentation:
a trunk show of custom window treatments outlining various linings, trims, details, centering of motifs, pattern matching and marketing yourself and how to use a trunk show to promote your business
Field Trip:
to a commercial sewing machine shop to see the various machines applicable to our industry
(bring samples of fabrics you might want to try out on the machines, i.e., layers of fabrics with batting to see what thicknesses the machines go through)
Fabrication techniques:
time will not permit a hands-on class, but a demonstration of the low-bulk method of fabricating drapery panels will be given, along with written instructions on this method.
This small group format will also benefit attendees by allowing time for questions and specific topics pertinent to the group.
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