The Business of Sewing: How to Start, Achieve and Maintain Success

by Barbara Wright Sykes

Learn how to make a "Consumer Price List", and how to structure a "Working Price List" and the use of both. Plus what "Pricing" method is best for you and how to handle price resistance. Gain knowledge on how to conduct production analysis with a time and motion study; and how to make a project inventory list. The book includes tips on how to market your business through cost effective methods, and how to expand your business through goods and services, diversification, price increases, and more. Discover how to set up a mail-order business. Plus, tips to determine if you need employees, subcontractors or fabricators and how to hire them. Also includes: E-commerce and on-line merchant accounts, web design, shopping carts and E-newsletters. Find out how to write books and articles, teach seminars and workshops, and produce sewing audios and videos to gain additional profit and much more. *Extensive Resource Directory, charts, illustrations and graphs included.

Note: The "Business" Of Sewing: Volume 1 also available

Genres: Sewing, Reference

120 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1992

About the author

Barbara Wright Sykes is a dynamic author, speaker, and business consultant whose work spans fiction, psychology, and entrepreneurship. She began her career hosting a successful radio talk show on KACE and went on to author multiple works, including Good Lovin’ Ain’t Easy, Overcoming Doubt, Fear and Procrastination, and The "Business" of Sewing. Her influence as a thought leader earned her over 125 radio appearances in a single year and spots on major networks such as KTLA, BET, ABC, and CBS. She has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Income Opportunity, and Health Magazine.
Sykes received the “International Woman of the Year” award for her contributions to business and psychology, joining the ranks of notable women such as Gloria Allred and Maureen Reagan. In 1979, she founded Barbara Wright & Associates, consulting for institutions like California State University, Union Bank, and Vogue Magazine. Known for her sharp insights, engaging storytelling, and commitment to helping others succeed, Sykes has also contributed to numerous publications and was featured on KTLA’s Making It as one of Southern California’s leading business minds.