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Clarity

Louis Monoyudis

New York, NY

Current CMO @ROAM Luggage; Former CEO @AlwaysFor Me (plus-size women's swimwear, successful sale to PE firm); former COO @Outer Places (digital media); former designer @Calvin Klein @Tommy Hilfiger @John Varvatos; Education @Harvard and @Parsons. Founder @Cut On Your Bias (crowdsourcing fashion/tech); Co-Founder @Bright Blue (luxury travel); Brand Strategy @Leo Burnett (advertising); Featured in New York Times, Mashable, Business Insider and more!

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How to Get Your Company Featured in the Press

I'll help you craft a strategy for press outreach based on the methods I used to have the following media outlets cover my fashion/tech company called Cut On Your Bias: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Mashable, Elle, Glamour, Huffington Post, Technorati, and many more!

How to Build and Grow a Subscription Commerce Company

I successfully have launched a subscription box for lovers of science and science fiction called Supply Pod, and we have worked with 20th Century Fox, Random House and more as partners.

Operations, Seed Funding, Pitch Decks, Revenue Modeling, Co-Founder Agreements

Serial entrepreneur with a strong emphasis on start-ups in the fashion, luxury, entertainment and digital media sectors. Would love to share some of the lessons I learned along the way!

Fashion Design, Merchandising, Sourcing and Development

After nearly a decade as a designer at Calvin Klein, John Varvatos and Tommy Hilfiger, I have worked on almost all menswear types of products including dress and casual shirts, graphic tees, sweaters, knits, and accessories. Happy to help any fashion brand looking to get started or trying to scale.

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Louis Monoyudis answered

What should I know and do when importing products from China to sell online?

Quality control is always a concern when working with an overseas vendor, and I can only imagine your frustration with the samples you have received. My advice having sourced from China and many other countries is that you need a person on the ground to make sure your expectations and specs are being met, so see if you can find an agent (not associated with the factory) to work on your behalf to save the time, cost and hassle of having to fly overseas. That said, unless you are at a scale where it makes sense, I have found over the years that it ends up usually being cheaper in the long run and much more efficient to produce domestically if you can. While overseas pricing can seem a lot cheaper on the front-end, if you run into issue (like you have), the savings end up evaporating. Hope this helps, and happy to jump on a call to talk in more detail.

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Which online businesses can you start that will return profitable?

The only real answer here is that there isn't any silver bullet or easy way to make money with an online business these days. If there is, the space gets filled quickly and the margins disappear. Like anything in life, whatever business you decide to launch will require time, effort and an ability to quickly evolve and pivot. That said, I suggest reading "The 4 Hour Workweek" for some inspiration.

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Creative and fresh take tailored to my company goals.

Kyle Barraclough Source: Clarity

Louis was not only very knowledgeable about the fashion design process generally, he also offered some very valuable advice on issues I have been facing while trying to start my own fashion business. He also gave me specific resources to check out for things I have been looking for to start my business.

Overall, he was extremely helpful and I would highly recommend him!

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This was my first time using Clarity and I wasn't sure what to expect. I'm VERY glad that I connected with Louis. He has a diverse background as a fashion designer at Calvin Klein and other big name brands, and then as the founding member of several tech start-ups. Since I am launching a fashion tech company, I was hoping to find someone who could answer questions about ecom, sourcing, design, production, customer acquisition, and pr. Incredibly, Louis was able to help in all of those areas.

Steven Mazur Source: Clarity

Member since June 2015