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244 – Sharing Wellness Through Well-Made Bags – Oscar Boatfield, Bearmade

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243 – Pricing Your Products

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242 – From Bespoke to Ready-to-Wear – Dawn Clarke

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241 – How to Sell UK-Made Products During a Cost of Living Crisis

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240 – 7 Proven Ways to Promote Your UK-Made Brand

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239 – Customer Service Secrets for British-Made Brands

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238 – How to Start a Clothing Brand for Less

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237 – How to Launch a Printed Textile Business – Veronica Galbraith

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236 – How to Find a UK Manufacturer

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235 – Spinning a Good Yarn

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234 – What is a Factory Fortnight, and Why Do You Need to Prepare for it?

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233 – The One Thing You’re Probably Doing Wrong With Your Email Marketing

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232 – What is a Manufacturing Agreement?

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231 – 6 Lessons we Learnt From Rebuilding our Website

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230 – Taking a Break

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229 – Why Buying British is Key to Retaining UK Craftship

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228 – How to Promote Your Business on YouTube – Linda De Ruiter

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227 – The Cost of Choosing the Wrong Manufacturer

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226 – Live Panel Discussion with 3 UK manufacturers

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225 – Why Manufacturers Aren’t Getting Back to Your Emails

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5 Steps to Finding a UK Manufacturer – Bonus Broadcast

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224 – Making it Your Own; The Advantages of Running a Micro-Factory – Paul Brown

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223 – Launching an Innovative New Dog Product – Rosie Macpherson

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222 – Why it’s Important to Keep UK Manufacturing Alive, Julie Deane CBE

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221 – 8 Tips for Selling to Retail Buyers

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220 – What Do Consumers Really Think About Buying UK-Made Goods?

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219 – 8 Things to do When Sales Aren’t Going to Plan

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218 – Recycling Old Clothing into Brand New Luxury Products, Graham Holbrook

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217 – You’re Invited to Made in UK Day

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216 – Should You Raise Your Prices?

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215 – Showcasing Scotland’s Textile Industry, Kitty Bruce-Gardyne

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214 – 5 Steps to Getting Your Product Made in the UK

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213 – How to Launch an Athleisure Brand Made in the UK

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212 – Where to Source Deadstock Fabric – Deborah Lyons & Piarvé Wetshi

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211 – The Top 6 Business Trends in 2022 for Brands That Make in the UK

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210 – Reflecting on 2021

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209 – Running a Brand Championing Diversity, Shanna Bent

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208 – How to Plan For 2022

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207 – Celebrating the North of England’s Creativity, Charlotte Raffo

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206 – There’s more to marketing your brand than just Instagram!

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205 – A visit to Shahtex to see seamless garment production

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204 – Making luxury lingerie in the UK – Lucy Jones, Lucy Jones Lingerie

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203 – 30 years of knitwear manufacturing in Leicester with Mars Knitwear

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202 – How I Dealt With the Copycats and Came Out on Top, Monika Young

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201 – 7 things that successful British-made brands do

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New Series Coming Soon!

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200 – 20 tips for building a great UK-made brand

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199 – 11 tips for starting a UK-made brand

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198 – How long does it take to launch a new product?

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197 – The Importance of Quality – Maria Grachvogel

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196 – How to follow up with a manufacturer

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195 – Made in Britain Starts Here – Andy Ogden

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194 – What To Do When Manufacturing Goes Wrong

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193 – Running the Oldest Factory in the UK – Ian Maclean MBE

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192 – Why you should visit a factory

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191 –Building a great British brand – Julie Deane CBE

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190 – Why UK manufacturers don’t sample for free

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189 – Calling out Boohoo for using unethical garment factories – Dominique Muller

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188 – 10 things that make British-made businesses great

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187 – How to make sales on live video – Lindsey James, Violet Flamingo

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186 – Taking a break!

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185 – Reeducating Customers to Buy Better and Buy Less – Rita Britton

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184 – Should you use a production consultant to help make your products?

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183 – It was a stupid idea, now it’s a million pound business – Brant Richards

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182 – Why Google is the last place to look for UK manufacturers

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181 – Looking after Scotland’s oldest cashmere brand – Simon Cotton

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180 – LIVE: How to make more money making in the UK

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179 – Growing a UK-made lifestyle brand – Rebecca J Mills

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178 – The real reason you aren’t making any money with your UK-made business

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177 – A guide to digital textile printing – Debbie McKeegan, Texintel

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176 – When should you choose making overseas versus making in the UK?

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175 – The benefits of lean manufacturing – James Stewart, Lean Practitioner

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174 – Why are your products not selling?

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173 – Launching an Organic Skincare Brand – Hannah Lovegrove

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172 – Should you sell your UK-made products on an online marketplace?

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171 – How we set up a micro swimwear factory – Rich Keegan & Linda Souto Maior

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170 – Are you confusing mark-up and margin?

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169 – From make-up artist to product innovator – Phyllis Cohen, Face Lace

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168 – How much does it cost to start a UK-made brand?

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167 – Building a Business With Your Customer in Mind – Rowena Howie

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166 – 12 Questions to ask a new manufacturer

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165 – How the pandemic has changed our manufacturing business – Jenny Holloway

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164 – 8 Things to look out for when visiting a manufacturer

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163 – How to Use Data to Transform Your Business – Jodi Muter-Hamilton

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162 – Fail to plan…plan to fail!

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161 – 50 years of manufacturing in the UK – John Elliott MBE, Ebac

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160 – Should You Start With a Seamstress or a Factory?

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159 – Tips for Trading With the EU as a Small Business – Rachel Bowditch

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158 – What is a Critical Path and Why do You Need One?

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157 – Tapping into Deadstock Materials – Dessy Tsolova

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156 – 5 reasons why you might not be able to find a UK manufacturer

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155 – Creating change in the UK fashion industry – Lee Akpareva

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154 – Made in UK vs Made in Britain

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153 – Building a family business in post-Brexit Britain – Gillian Tusting

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152 – Are you charging enough for your UK-made products?

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151 – 10 years of Make it British – what’s changed?

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BONUS EPISODE: Made in UK Day

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150 – 11 trends for 2021 and beyond

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149 – A look back on 2020

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148 – How to promote a UK-made brand