This month I was teaching my new online course for E – Commerce retailers for NWES London as part of their Enterprising High Streets program. 
NWES offers free advice, training and masterclasses for high street businesses in Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham.

It was a pleasure to work again with these independent retailers and teach them how to apply the effective VM techniques to their websites and E-Commerce shops. I have screen shot below three of these great brands ;

AMPellegrini Art & Design – Printed Textiles, Nature Illustrations Created by Anna-Maria Pellegrini    https://www.ampellegrini.com/

Anna-Maria has reported that since she has made the changes on her website from tips suggested on the course, she has seen “a spike in overall visitors on the website, since I changed my homepage and about me page.” A key selling point about Anna-Maria’s product is her own nature illustrations, therefore I suggested telling her brand story and process to her customers on the About Us Page and link this to illustration images posted on her Instagram site too. 

I am very excited to start working in partnership with Workshop X, offering online Visual Merchandising workshops for their customer’s in the Middle East. On this workshop we will be covering the key principles of both Window Design/ Dressing & In Store Visual Merchandising. Understand how to create an effective shopping environment for your customers, as well as creating theatre for your customers when designing /installing event spaces in store.

The first online Visual Merchandising workshop will commence on 28th July 2020 and there is currently an early booking discount of 10% off the workshop price.
For further details please click on the link below;
https://workshopx.online/products/visual-merchandising-online-workshop-by-sarah-maning

I’m excited to announce that I will be teaching a 5 day Online Visual Merchandising Interiors Course running from 1st until 5th June 2020 for Central Saint Martins. The course will run each day from 10am until 5pm UK time.
This is one of my favourite courses to teach and very excited that this will now be taught online via the UAL’s online classroom platform, Blackboard.
Please click on the link below to be transferred to the UAL website for more course booking details ;

https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/fashion-communication/short-courses/fashion-marketing/visual-merchandising-interiors-csm

This week I’ve been teaching  free kids online art classes for UAL Future Creatives starting with Monday’s class for 7-11 year olds titled “ Learn how to paint like Vincent Van Gogh “ Which produced some amazing paintings by the children who attended !
Today’s class for 11-17 year olds will be teaching children how to create a store window design taking inspiration from the Louis Vuitton/ Yayoi Kusama installations in Selfridges, London.
Sign up to the UAL Future Creatives mailing list to find out how to book. https://lnkd.in/ebm3WWf

It felt amazing to be back teaching online last week and even greater to be teaching a past client of mine, Sonthia Coleman from The Fashion Brand Guru who is based in Louisiana, US.
Sonthia booked a bespoke Online Visual Merchandising Course with me which was run over a series of three days, with two hour online live lessons with me each day via Zoom. My bespoke courses are all tailored to meet the exact training requirements for each client who I work with. Sonthia wanted to concentrate on learning effective Visual Merchandising techniques for online retailers, so courses can be tailored to assist those retailers who just have online businesses and those who have a store premises.

Celebrating 14 years of everything Visual Merchandising !
A heartfelt thank you to all my lovely customers who have supported my business over the past 14 years !
Thank you again for the best 14 years and here’s to many more years of trading !

Our Online courses and training in Visual Merchandising are a fantastic way to learn the skills and principles of this fascinating industry from the comfort of your own home at an agreed time to suit you ! These courses are great for retailers or students.
Our online visual merchandising courses are taught at a Beginners and Advanced level of learning, all lessons are live with me as your tutor. I run my online courses so that the experience is as near to having an in person lesson here in London.