Before the meeting
What the boutique needs:
Your Wearable Art line has to fit with their boutique style
The average price of your line also needs to fit with the boutique’s price range
A catalog of your line they can keep with your information
Boutique owners need to see some samples to touch and feel the fabric, and the colors, and experienced the products
What you need to prepare:
Collections according to the seasons (products & colors) and to the boutique style
If you can offer products that will complement each other, that’s even better! Read here how to create a solid color product
Order samples representative of your collection(s)
Set your prices in Manage Prices to know your retail prices
During the meeting
Here are a few lines of discussion and points you can consider
What are your stories? If they don’t know you, they will like to know why you’re an artist, what is your style, your technique, what made you do a Wearable Art line, etc.
Do you have anything particular to say about your artwork presented? It’s a great conversation starter for you and the boutique owner as well as for their employees when they will be ready to sell your line!
Show your amazing products and talk about them, it’s always nice to have some extra info
What do you like best about this product
Do you have a particular story about an item
Do you have any best-sellers
What are your recommendations to mix and match
How is the fit
Know your mathematics ;
What markup do you offer
What are your retail prices for each product
Do you have a minimum of units per order
Do they prefer to order from you straight or are you inviting them to your Boutique Portal for them to shop
When do they need the stock? You can have an in-season booking for the season currently going on, or they can order for the next season
After the meeting
Fill out this form to add the boutique owner to your Boutique Portal
Choose your margin according to the one you talked about with the owner
If you order for them, complete their order signed in as them in your Boutique Portal
If they order themselves through the Portal, plan a phone call with them or an email to make sure they are okay and thanked them