New Stationary

Good evening folks!

We have designed a new business card, brochure, business headed paper and business envelope.

Have a look and give us feedback!

Brochure

Business Envelope

Business Card

Letter Head Paper

linkedIn

We have joined linkedIn, to view our profile click on the link, we will be updating our profile in the coming days so watch this space! http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_top

Chanels is surf up

 

Seriously? Chanel is just not messing around with this stuff! Check out the chanel surfboards this week!
I'm no surfer and quite frankly, I can't see putting one of these PARTICULAR little beauties in the water, although they are absolutely legit functionally. Chanel's luxury surfboards are shaped in black, white and red monochrome carbon fiber, polyurethane and fiberglass. Brilliantly- they are equipped with special spaces on the back for easy wall hanging. Honestly, these beauties need to be hung like the pieces of art that they are!
You can purchase these surfboards from Chanel for €9000 , but why would you do that when we have an amazing chanel bag for less than half the price!

20% discount for our customers

Branding Process

At bags Couture we realise the importance of branding and have spent many hours since starting the business creating the brand. We took the following steps in the branding process;

We conducted extensive research on designer handbags and the market in which we would be competing in.Looking at the competition for designer bags (and the competition is rife,take it from us!!) we needed to make a niche and differentiate ourselves from our competitors…we hit a wall on this one!

 After much brainstorming we decided to define what makes our brand unique and how it will slot into an available space in the market and in the minds of our customer.

So what would be our point of differentiation????

1. Excellent customer care

2. A luxurious feel to our brand displayed in our logo and online presence

Our aim is to have a brand image that will permeate everything from our marketing communications to our product design, business character and customer experience. We proceeded to create four logos to develop our brand identity and asked our customers to give us feedback on which the preferred. One logo was the clear winner so we further developed it in photoshop and are delighted to say that we feel the image reflects our brand identity perfectly!

 We then spent many hours searching through blogger for background colours, seeking a cool sophisticated look that would convey our message of luxury and we settled on greys and blacks. We then ensured our twitter account had the same colours and feel as the blog to ensure a streamlined and professional look.

We added links from our blog to enable the reader to press the desired button and it will take them straight to the desired social media site e.g.: facebook, twitter and google +

We are in the process of developing a suite of stationary, business card and brochure and our branding strategy is to ensure that they carry the same look and feel and our social media platforms. We will keep you posted on our progress!

Designer Handbags!

So lets be honest, the handbag is a major part of our lives. Have we ever really thought about it though? Of course fashion tends dictate hand bags styles. Can any woman today dare to leave the house without her handbag? A handbag to a woman is like water to a fish. It is as important as air, food, and water to our survival. Hand bags have taken over our lives. Phew ladies,... take a sigh of relief, we are here to sort out all your bag dilemas!
At Bags couture you’ll find exquisite leather goods, from latest trends to timeless classics. From must-have leather handbags and exclusive leather briefcases, and eye-catching leather purses, our extensive range of leather goods are sure to make an impression.
We hope you enjoy your shopping experience at Bags Couture
and we invite you to visit as often as you like. Enjoy!!

Social Media Buttons!

Hi Folks
We have added social media buttons for your convenience. Just click on the link and it will take you straight to our facebook, twitter and google+ accounts. Please check click on the link to check it out! Enjoy surfing! 
We have also put our twitter feed on our blog for your convenience so that you can read our our tweets. 

Our Background

Hello Folks!

Sarah & Nsimba on a busy day in the office!
 Now you can put a
 face to the name!

My name is Sarah and I am the co-owner of a handbag company Bags Couture. My colleague Nasimba and I own the business and to set the scene for you, she sources the bags and I am the Sales Director! We have been in business for one year and thankfully we are going from strength the strength.

We both have backgrounds in fashion. I worked in management for a bag company while I put myself through college. Nasimba got a job at Vogue Magazine after she graduated from college. We both share the same passion for handbags always wanted to own our own business.

We love selling bags, any woman can throw a bag over her shoulder, look in a mirror, and fall in love!

Starting this business can be the most rewarding thing we have ever done. Seeing the beautiful designer bags arriving with us each week and watching our happy customers getting a amazing bag at a great price is just super! We don't think of what we do as work; it's fun!

We hope you enjoy our blog, we endeavour to bring you the latest trends at the best prices and pride ourselves in providing you with the highest level of customer care :)

Help!! We are having a logo dilemma...

Logo One!!! Classic bags of all time

Logo Two!! Bags that flatter your figure

Logo three!! Trendy bags

Logo four!! I love bags couture

We have designed four logos and cannot decide which one we love the most...so we got thinking and as you are the most important part of our business we have decided that you can make the choice, let us know your preference and the one that gets the most votes will become our logo. Happy voting!

Evaluation of Competition in Business

Before setting up this business we went to Google’s keyword tool and simply typed in ‘designer handbags’.The results show us that the term itself gets over 40,000 searches a month and told us competition was high.....yikes!!! At least we knew there was potential! For this reason, we decided that the best game plan was to target more of a ‘niche’ market.  We went back to your keyword research tool and searched for the following:

• Italian designer handbags
• Used designer handbags
• Authentic designer handbags
• Rent designer handbags
• Vintage designer handbags
• French designer handbags

These are smaller niche areas  but they will capture a more focused. We have decided on the authentic designer bags which has searches of 8,100 global monthly searches.

Who are our Competitors?

Our competitors are worldwide as we are online! 

Bringing you all the latest looks! Now who is good to you!

Fashion Week Handbags: Diane von Furstenberg Fall 2012

We love these looks so much we had to show you all the hot new trends in bags. We are currently sourcing these beauties and they will be available soon at the keenest prices on our facebook page :)

About Us

Our mission is to provide you with some of the best Designer Handbags on the Market. We offer Fantastic Handbags with Unbeatable Quality and Style.

Our passion is fashion!Lets be honest, the handbag is a major part of our lives. Have we ever really thought about it though? Of course fashion trends dictate hand bags styles. Can any woman today dare to leave the house without her handbag? A handbag to a woman is like water to a fish. It is as important as air, food, and water to our survival. Hand bags have taken over our lives. Phew ladies,... take a sigh of relief, we are here to sort out all your bag dilemas! At Bags couture you’ll find exquisite leather goods, from latest trends to timeless classics. From must-have leather handbags and eye-catching leather purses, our extensive range of leather goods are sure to make an impression. We hope you enjoy your shopping experience at Bags Couture and we invite you to visit as often as you like. Enjoy!!

Chanel pre fall 2012 Bag! The only word is WOW


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We at bagsCouture are soooooooo excited that I don’t even know where to begin, so let’s just say that there’s a real treat waiting for you guys after the jump. We’ve received images from Chanel of a few of the bags from , and they are gorgeous. Most of the intricately adorned bags play on the Boy Chanel theme, and the results are a bit tougher than the Chanel that some of you might be used to. We have long wanted Chanel’s bags to find a direction like this one, and now that they have, the results are among my favorite Chanel bags in years






Chanel Metiers d’Art Pre-Fall 2012



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