We Need Your Feedback to Make BoF Better

MIAMI, United States — This week, as part of a longstanding tradition here at BoF, we are asking for your help. Please fill out our community survey, to help us understand you better, and to give us your feedback and suggestions on how we can continue to improve and develop BoF in the future.

Our first community survey took place way back in November 2007 and provided some very interesting insights about our budding community — which, looking back, really foreshadowed the global BoF community of today, even though there were only 65 responses! At the time, sharing the results of the survey, I wrote:

The biggest takeaway, especially through your detailed written comments, was that the BoF has really become a space for industry professionals to inform themselves and engage with each other on both creative and business issues. Here are the headlines about the BoF community from the survey results:

You represent all facets of the fashion industry
About a third of you come from the business side of the industry: CEOs, managing directors, senior executives, brand managers, investors and even some business and economics students. Another third come from the creative side: designers, stylists, fashion students, and PRs. The remainder is a mixture of academics, journalists, media personalities, entrepreneurs, and my favourite, a "waitress extraordinaire while I am working on my own fashion business."

You are highly educated and international
Almost 50 percent of you are educated to a Masters or PhD level, and 80 percent of you hold a college degree. You are also a highly international community, with BoF regularly receiving visitors from over 140 countries, with the biggest representation coming from the USA, UK, India, France, Italy, Germany, Singapore, Canada and Australia. It seems the fashion business even garners interest in countries with much bigger issues than Marc Jacobs’ last collection, as we have also had visitors from Iraq, the Palestinian Authority and Iran.

You are avid consumers of fashion and business media
Not surprisingly, 95 percent of survey respondents are regular readers, visiting The Business of Fashion at least once a week, and 40 percent are subscribers via RSS feed or email.

Today, we are asking for your help again, to fill out this year's BoF community survey. As a gesture of thanks, everyone who fills out the survey will be eligible to win gift certificate vouchers from global fashion e-commerce retailer MatchesFashion.com.

Thank you for your ongoing support and have a great weekend. You can fill out the survey here.

Imran Amed, Founder and Editor-in-Chief

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