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Not so much cobling work for decent money.i have a shop that I share with a dry cleaner already with only enough work for weekends. I have been going for around six months and although everyone that I have done has been suitably impressed with the quality of work I'm still only ticking along. I'v started and still running the shop out of my pocket from my full time shoemaking job which doesn't pay that good. I don't think I would struggle to land a job i just need to find the right place that will pay me the most..... Perhaps I'm thinking about it all wrong and really need to work on advertising for my cobbling shop ..... Any good tips for marketing

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Great minds think alike ,,, I have a nice metal last stand in the window with lots of cobblers feet and cast iron lasts and full grain leather sheets and off cuts and old looking finishing irons, and lots of old ladies have commented on how old fashioned it looks and how it's nice that look like a cobblers shop from years ago ,,,,, I could do with converting those compliments into pounds,,you are right though around here everyone knows someone who worked in the shoe trade one way or another, most of the shoe made here are gents welted shoes but not a lot people wear them,, thinking about it now I have kind of sat on my sole waiting for jobs to just walk in rather than going to find them,perhaps tripled efforts focusing on leather sole wearers will pay off ,,, there's only one way to find out !!!!

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In our store we sell shoes by Barker and Loake and always sell the repair service in store when we sell a pair of shoes as its cheaper and quicker than sending back to the manufacturer. We do ALOT of leather repairs and hardly ever see stiletto heels or ladies shoes for that matter. Seems to work for us so cant see why it wouldn't work for you.

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Church's and Edward green , trickers "where kinky boots was made" Crocket and Jones . John lobb and Barkers plus some others I can't think of are in my town and loakes are 20 mins away so I can say that I am a lot cheaper but not quicker and to be honest when you do repairs on correct lasts rather than cobblers feet and have rounding machine with channel cutters and bottom rollers bigger than some cars I've owned and the other ten machines used just to make bottoms I can't really compete with the quality in a cobblers shop. High heels are half of my jobs at the Minite with the other half being gents top pieces . I'm hoping I'm gonna get quite a few pairs for winter prep with the stick on soles .... I had a guy the other day who had worn a pair of heels in unevenly somehow one was down to the seat lift while the other had gone past the top piece and into the second lift .... He wanted just one heel repairing. I wish I took a pic

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Just thinking about job opportunities and was wondering if anyone has a clue how much corporate cobblers get paid in London. Wondering if it could be worth the journey!!

 

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