Jacki Hall

Hello! Thanks for visiting my about.me page. Let me tell you about how I work to support small creative and fashion businesses and graduates during their start-up and early stage business development in London, the U.K. and internationally.

I am a Chartered Marketer and work individually with SMEs, in partnership with like-minded development and incubator organisations, and with large academic institutes to support and educate new and innovative creative businesses.

I am an experienced lecturer and researcher, and I hold an MSc (Distinction) in Fashion Marketing. I currently work at London College of Fashion as an Associate Lecturer with postgraduate students on MA Strategic Fashion Marketing and MA Fashion Entrepreneurship programmes.

I passionately believe in reaching undergraduates and postgraduates who are interested in starting their own fashion business by also offering tailor-made small fashion business packages. Fledgling creative and fashion businesses are an area I feel the current industry provision is not supporting, and it can be difficult to fit this provision within existing education curricula.

To provide further industry experience for the students, and also the short-term support for the small businesses I work with, I set up and broker skills partnerships between students and early stage fashion and creative businesses.

I also work with pre-start, start-up, and early stage businesses by delivering regular marketing seminars at venues in London. In these sessions, I help the participants focus and shape their goals, and develop news skills to build their businesses with.

I particularly enjoy working in partnership with like-minded organisations to reach and support small, creative businesses and entrepreneurs. Organisations I am currently proud to be working with include the Collective, Craft Central, London College of Fashion First Move programme, and University of the Arts, London Student Employability and Enterprise (SEE) programme.

Lastly, within consultancy, I deliver in-house programmes of business development progressive one-to-ones for organisations that support entrepreneurs within the creative and fashion industries. I also work directly with these small businesses. I undertake research, produce marketing audits, and develop digital strategy or traditional communications strategies.