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Rachel Bowditch

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Alice Bow

How Rachel Bowditch discovered a gap in the market and turned it into a thriving business with loyal fans.Alice Bow became an overnight sensation when it was reported that the Duchess of Cambridge was a big fan.Rachel discusses how she rapidly grew her business overnight by bringing her manufacturing in house. She also has some great tips about how to protect your brand's IP, as well as how small businesses can trade with the EU post-Brexit.Discover: How Rachel spotted a gap in the market for comfortable insoles 01:53Why you should make a decision from the start to not treat your business like a hobby 05:39How to get manufacturers to take you seriously when you are a start-up 06:20Sourcing raw materials from trade shows 08:43Becoming an overnight sensation when it was announced that the Duchess of Cambridge was a fan of the brand 10:50How to deal with spikes in demand when you are a small brand 15:10How they get their leathergoods made in London 19:30Rachel explains how the UK-EU trade agreement works for businesses that make in the UK but sell to the EU 20:54Why you need to keep an audit trail 26:06How to get your paperwork right 27:42Why it's important to communicate with your EU customers 28:43How to protect your design IP from competitors 32:37What the new EU VAT changes mean for small businesses 49:10More about Rachel Bowditch and Alice BowAlice Bow WebsiteStay in TouchBritish Brand Accelerator - Find out how you can work with me to build your British-made brandMake it British websiteJoin Make it British - become a member of our community and promote your business in our directory or UK-made brands and manufacturersMake it British on InstagramMake it British on YouTube - subscribe to my YouTube channel to watch many of the podcast episodes as videos.

How Rachel Bowditch discovered a gap in the market and turned it into a thriving business with loyal fans.Alice Bow became an overnight sensation when it was reported that the Duchess of Cambridge was a big fan.Rachel discusses how she rapidly grew her business overnight by bringing her manufacturing in house. She also has some great tips about how to protect your brand's IP, as well as how small businesses can trade with the EU post-Brexit.Discover: <ul><li>How Rachel spotted a gap in the market for comfortable insoles 01:53</li><li>Why you should make a decision from the start to not treat your business like a hobby 05:39</li><li>How to get manufacturers to take you seriously when you are a start-up 06:20</li><li>Sourcing raw materials from trade shows 08:43</li><li>Becoming an overnight sensation when it was announced that the Duchess of Cambridge was a fan of the brand 10:50</li><li>How to deal with spikes in demand when you are a small brand 15:10</li><li>How they get their leathergoods made in London 19:30</li><li>Rachel explains how the UK-EU trade agreement works for businesses that make in the UK but sell to the EU 20:54</li><li>Why you need to keep an audit trail 26:06</li><li>How to get your paperwork right 27:42</li><li>Why it's important to communicate with your EU customers 28:43</li><li>How to protect your design IP from competitors 32:37</li><li>What the new EU VAT changes mean for small businesses 49:10</li></ul>More about Rachel Bowditch and Alice Bow<a href="https://www.alicebow.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alice Bow Website</a>Stay in Touch<a href="https://makeitbritish.co.uk/british-brand-accelerator/?utm_campaign=British_Brand_Blueprint&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=podcast_shownotes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">British Brand Accelerator</a> - Find out how you can work with me to build your British-made brand<a href="https://makeitbritish.co.uk/?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=podcast_shownotes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Make it British website</a><a href="https://makeitbritish.co.uk/membership-plans/?utm_campaign=Become-a-Member&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=podcast_shownotes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join Make it British</a> - become a member of our community and promote your business in our directory or UK-made brands and manufacturers<a href="https://www.instagram.com/makeitbritish" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Make it British on Instagram</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQtUJRPB7xtLsPlBQAXs0Sg/?sub_confirmation=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Make it British on YouTube</a> - subscribe to my YouTube channel to watch many of the podcast episodes as videos.

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

Rachel Bowditch (Phd) is a theatre director, an Associate Professor, Head of the MFA in Performance, and the Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Film, Dance, and Theatre in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Her areas of specialty are the Lecoq method, Rasaboxes, mask, devising, site-specific theatre, immersive theatre, incorporating innovative technology into performance, festival and utopian theory, and performance studies.  She is the author of three books: On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man (2010/University of Chicago Press/Seagull), Performing Utopia (2017/University of Chicago Press/Seagull), and Physical Dramaturgy: Perspectives from the Field (2018/Routledge) with Jeff Casazza and Annette Thornton. She is currently working on a book under contract with Routledge about Richard Schechner’s performance workshop and rasaboxes with Paula Murray Cole and Michele Minnick (expected publication 2019). Her work has been published in TDR (The Performance Review), Performance Research, Theatre Topics, the Journal of Media and Religion, Ecumenica, and Puppetry International as well as book chapters in Festive Devils in the Americas edited by Milla Riggio and Paolo Vignolo, Playa Dust: Collected Stories from Burning Man edited by Samantha Krukowski, and Focus on World Festivals edited by Chris Newbold. She presents both her scholarship and theatre research at theatre conferences nationally and internationally. She has was a recent Fellow at the Harvard Mellon Institute for Performance Research in 2018. She has received competitive funding from the Map Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Network of Ensemble Theatres NET/TEN Exchange Grant, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her performance and directing work specializing in devising, site-specific, and physical theatre, tackle challenging social issues from suicide, addiction, madness, forced relocation, the death penalty, and colonization has been seen at theatres and venues such as Childsplay, Mixed Blood, Northwest Children's Theatre, the Denver Center, Mesa Arts Center, Phoenix Art Museum, IDEA Museum, and Scottsdale Public Art. Her artistic work has been featured and reviewed in The Director's Vision by Scott Shattuck, Digital Media, Projection Design, and Technology for Theatre by Alex Oliszewski and Daniel Fine (Routledge), New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Theatre Journal, Newsweek, American Theatre, The Sun (NYC), The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Live Design, Rolling Stone, Vogue Italia, U.S. Airways Magazine, Channel 12 News, Channel 8/PBS, ABC 15 News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minneapolis Daily Planet, Aisle Say Twin Cities, TYA Today, the Phoenix New Times and Arizona Republic among other publications. As a Burning Man scholar, she has been attending the event since 2001. For directing work visit: www.vesselproject.org

Rachel Bowditch (Phd) is a theatre director, an Associate Professor, Head of the MFA in Performance, and the Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Film, Dance, and Theatre in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Her areas of specialty are the Lecoq method, Rasaboxes, mask, devising, site-specific theatre, immersive theatre, incorporating innovative technology into performance, festival and utopian theory, and performance studies.  She is the author of three books: On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man (2010/University of Chicago Press/Seagull), Performing Utopia (2017/University of Chicago Press/Seagull), and Physical Dramaturgy: Perspectives from the Field (2018/Routledge) with Jeff Casazza and Annette Thornton. She is currently working on a book under contract with Routledge about Richard Schechner’s performance workshop and rasaboxes with Paula Murray Cole and Michele Minnick (expected publication 2019). Her work has been published in TDR (The Performance Review), Performance Research, Theatre Topics, the Journal of Media and Religion, Ecumenica, and Puppetry International as well as book chapters in Festive Devils in the Americas edited by Milla Riggio and Paolo Vignolo, Playa Dust: Collected Stories from Burning Man edited by Samantha Krukowski, and Focus on World Festivals edited by Chris Newbold. She presents both her scholarship and theatre research at theatre conferences nationally and internationally. She has was a recent Fellow at the Harvard Mellon Institute for Performance Research in 2018. She has received competitive funding from the Map Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Network of Ensemble Theatres NET/TEN Exchange Grant, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her performance and directing work specializing in devising, site-specific, and physical theatre, tackle challenging social issues from suicide, addiction, madness, forced relocation, the death penalty, and colonization has been seen at theatres and venues such as Childsplay, Mixed Blood, Northwest Children's Theatre, the Denver Center, Mesa Arts Center, Phoenix Art Museum, IDEA Museum, and Scottsdale Public Art. Her artistic work has been featured and reviewed in The Director's Vision by Scott Shattuck, Digital Media, Projection Design, and Technology for Theatre by Alex Oliszewski and Daniel Fine (Routledge), New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Theatre Journal, Newsweek, American Theatre, The Sun (NYC), The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Live Design, Rolling Stone, Vogue Italia, U.S. Airways Magazine, Channel 12 News, Channel 8/PBS, ABC 15 News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minneapolis Daily Planet, Aisle Say Twin Cities, TYA Today, the Phoenix New Times and Arizona Republic among other publications. As a Burning Man scholar, she has been attending the event since 2001. For directing work visit: <a href="http://www.vesselproject.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.vesselproject.org</a>

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