• About
  • Services
  • Podcast
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • Speaking & Partnerships
  • Contact
8 Essential Tips for your first trade fair visit

8 Essential Tips for your first trade fair visit

by Nicole Higgins | Nov 4, 2024 | Business Tips, Exporting, Fashion, Trade Shows

 8 Essential Tips for your first trade fair visit  As a buyer I’ve sourced products from trade fairs across the world from the enormous canton fair in Hong Kong to UK trade fair Top drawer  finding suppliers & brands  for anything from home...
5 Tips to maximise Q4 & Xmas for your Product Business

5 Tips to maximise Q4 & Xmas for your Product Business

by Nicole Higgins | Nov 4, 2024 | Business Tips, Christmas, Fashion, Retail, Retailers, Sales

Between 25-50% of your yearly turnover will come in Q4. These are some of the best practice tasks for you to check off your list before & during your Q4 trading season. I’ve spent 20 years in retail working as a buyer and head of buying for the likes of Primark,...
Creating an ethical brand what you need to know

Creating an ethical brand what you need to know

by Nicole Higgins | Aug 7, 2023 | Fashion, Manufacturing, Packaging, Podcast, Sustainability

How do you create a brand that is ethical? This is a question I am asked more and more as founders look to contribute positively to society’s wellbeing. How to you navigate the complexity of putting this into place? Sara Collins is an ethical product consultant,...
Don’t make these mistakes when starting your fashion brand- with Alison Lewy

Don’t make these mistakes when starting your fashion brand- with Alison Lewy

by Nicole Higgins | Jun 5, 2023 | Business Tips, Exporting, Fashion, Investment, Manufacturing, Podcast, Trade Shows

Alison Lewy MBE, is a fashion industry expert, author and founder of Fashion Angel, who provide mentoring, business support and access to funding for the fashion industry. Alison was a guest on Episode 79 of my podcast Start, Scale Succeed and shares her top tips for...
How To Create A Lean Fashion Business

How To Create A Lean Fashion Business

by Nicole Higgins | May 8, 2023 | Business Tips, Fashion, Podcast

Leigh Unwin is the founder of The Style Attic, a family run women’s fashion boutique in Leeds offering high-quality, fresh and affordable new styles every week. With lots of free size styles, fitting from a size 8 to 22, find the perfect flattering outfit for...
How to place low minimum order quantities for your new fashion business

How to place low minimum order quantities for your new fashion business

by Nicole Higgins | Apr 10, 2023 | Business Tips, Fashion, Manufacturing, Podcast

As a new fashion business, one of the main challenges can be finding a reliable supplier, particularly one that will accept low minimum order quantities. Ziqi Deng is the co-founder of Resourcefashion, a production supply chain specifically designed for emerging...
« Older Entries

Nicole Higgins


The Buyer & Retail Coach is a global retail expert with over 18 years experience working in the industry as a buyer and head of buying for companies such as Primark, M&S and George at Asda, developing and sourcing a broad range of products from Lingerie to Health & Beauty and driving strategies and innovation.

Having worked for the big blue chips she now brings that expertise and experience to entrepreneurs and SME’s to help you make your product ideas a reality, scale your business and increase your bottom line sales & profits.

Recent Posts

  • 6 things you can learn from the Labubu craze for your product business
  • Ep 189 Crafting tone of voice that sells and inspires with The Fashion Copywriter Katie Ramsingh
  • Ep 188 Luna Daily Founder katy cottam chats Launching her microbiome bodycare brand
  • Ep 187 overcoming anxiety and overwhelm with psychotherapist anna mathur
  • Ep 186 Brand Packaging Tips for Small Business: Stand Out on Retail Shelves

Categories

  • ADHD
  • Beauty
  • Black Friday
  • Branding
  • Business Tips
  • Christmas
  • Copywriting
  • Email Marketing
  • Exporting
  • Fashion
  • Finance
  • Fulfilment
  • Hiring
  • HR
  • Investment
  • Leadership
  • Legal
  • Lingerie
  • Manifestation
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing
  • Outsourcing
  • Packaging
  • Pinterest
  • Podcast
  • PR
  • Retail
  • Retailers
  • Sales
  • Scaling
  • Skin Care
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Subscription Boxes
  • Success Tips
  • Sustainability
  • Trade Shows
  • Uncategorized
  • Wholesale

Start and scale your product business without the overwhelm

Contact

nicole@thebuyerandretailcoach.com

  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow

SERVICES

All Services

Workshops & Courses

Resources

 

ABOUT

About Me

Podcast

Privacy

Terms & Conditions

 

© 2025 Copyright The Buyer & Retail Coach™