$26.00 / month
The Shoe Community – monthly membership
Are you confident in your shoe brand concept, but feeling disconnected from other shoe brand founders?
The Shoe Community is an online space where shoe start-ups and small shoe brand founders help solve each others’ problems.
Enjoy the confidence you feel in your brand decisions when you have a community of shoe brand founders to support you every step of the way!
Who is The Shoe Community for?
Shoe brand founders at any stage – from start-ups at concept phase to established businesses.
You will need to have a Facebook account to receive the benefits of The Shoe Community.
Please add me – Susannah Davda – as a friend on Facebook when you have completed checkout so I can invite you to join The Shoe Community private Facebook group.
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Do you have a Facebook account?
You will need to have a Facebook account to receive the benefits of The Shoe Community.
Please add me – Susannah Davda – as a friend on Facebook when you have completed checkout so I can invite you to join The Shoe Community private Facebook group.
What do I get when I join The Shoe Community?
Membership of our private Facebook group
Meet and learn from other shoe brand founders
Resources and contacts
✓ Sustainable material and component supplier list
✓ Factory contacts
✓ True women’s size converter: USA, UK, EU
Free live Zoom masterclasses – with Susannah Davda + special guests
Deep dives into specific aspects of starting a shoe brand
Access to previous masterclass recordings:
✓ How to find a shoe manufacturer
✓ How much does it cost to start a shoe brand?
✓ How to build an audience before you have shoes to sell
✓ How to work with a freelance shoe designer
✓ How many styles of shoe should you launch with?
✓ Design and IP protection for your shoe brand
✓ How to name your shoe brand
✓ How to sell shoes online
✓ Pre-ordering and crowdfunding for your shoe brand
✓ How to build a sustainable shoe
✓ How to produce your shoe samples locally – and manufacture further afield
✓ How to connect with your shoe brand audience using social media
✓ My crowdfunding success – with the founder of Tofers
✓ How to build your confidence as a shoe brand founder
✓ Building a performance shoe brand
✓ How to source from the Far East
✓ How to source your shoes in Portugal
✓ How to build an audience on TikTok
✓ Online retail success for your shoe brand
✓ Essentials of accountancy for your shoe brand
✓ Building an effective website for your shoe brand
✓ How can a shoe technologist improve your quality & fit?
✓ How to create your shoe brand identity
✓ How to improve your shoe brand SEO
✓ Intellectual property rights for shoe brand founders
✓ How can product placement help you get more customers?
✓ How to wholesale your shoe brand
✓ How to market your shoe brand
✓ How to communicate with your shoe factory
✓ How to start a zero waste shoe brand
✓ How to predict shoe trends for your brand
✓ How to improve your shoe photography
✓ How to manufacture your shoes in Brazil
✓ Creating a custom shoe with no MOQ
Who runs The Shoe Community?
I do! I’m Susannah Davda, founder of The Shoe Consultant and The Shoe Community.
I have been working in the shoe industry since 1998, and helping people to start and grow their footwear brands since 2015.
I am passionate about helping shoe brand founders like you to achieve success.
What’s the investment?
Monthly membership of The Shoe Community is just USD $26, and includes access to all live masterclasses.
Cicely Marie –
Hello!!! I am excited to be a part of this community! I’m looking forward to networking and learning on how to expand on my brand and have good success as shoes are my hearts desire!
cicely sigmon (verified owner) –
Looking forward to coming back and getting useful and relevant information about the shoe industry
Christina B. (verified owner) –
Susannah has created the perfect online community for those interested in starting their own shoe brand. From her experience working in the shoe industry to her contacts to her vendor suppliers, she is so generous in sharing her insights and genuinely wants us to succeed. Highly recommend joining this group and also signing up for the online course. I would not have been able to launch my own shoe brand if it wasn’t for her and the amazing community she has built.
Eloise Gueye (verified owner) –
Fantastic community for the start of my journey down this shoe entrepreneur road… highly recommend!
Kristen Decker –
I started working with Susannah in 2023. I had a dream of wanting to start my own sustainable cowgirl boot brand almost 7 years ago. One day, I finally just said… ” What am I waiting for”!? Soooo… I was so lucky to have found Susannah with a little research online. At this time I had no idea how to create my own boot brand, or really did not know anything about the shoe industry at all. Susannah helped me in so many ways!! I will forever be grateful for everything she has taught me. Susannah is extremely knowledgeable in the shoe industry, and has a lot of FANTASTIC connections over the years. If you are on the fence, or thinking about starting your own shoe brand, and not sure where to start….. hire Susannah… you will so thankful you did!
One thing I have learned in all my years of being an entrepreneur is not try an do everything myself. I learned I can save myself a lot of time and money by hiring experts to help me.
“Twenty years from now you will regret the things you didn’t do, rather than the ones you did do.” Mark Twain