i know...i'm suppose to *heart* my dh, but...
this morning i wake up to
this
he has been so deligent in helping me get my website up and running. he has committed to it, and has worked on it a little bit every day without any "honeydo's" from me.
i love him for it.
yesterday, i informed him that he will be my official manager/bookkeeper/acccountant/web publisher...
he happily agreed.
i love him for it.
i feel really good about where we are headed. from the first day i meet him, he's always told me his lifelong dream is to own and run his own business. i thought he'd be happy when i announced that i wanted to start que jimenez...but he wasn't really interrested in it. he has zero to negative interest in crafts and arts...outside of what i create i should say. so he has always told me this is your business ki, i'll help you with whatever you ask...because i'll help you with anything...but this is not the business i invisioned running...and honestly i have no interest in arts and crafts.
well, i think i am slowly winning him over.
i think i am getting him to see that this is our business...i may be the one creating the products, but together we create and run the business.
i cannot express to you how happy i am to have him on my team. since our begining year of dating...to marriage...and up to now...we are most happy when we are working together.
we absolutely love working together, and are a very good team. very good. very, very good.
we'd be the perfect couple for the amazing race, except for my sensitive stomach...and the fact that we will not leave our kids with no one.
can i tell you again how happy i am to be having him as a partner?
i invision many nights, weekends, and days with us working together...
okay...i'll stop driving home a mute point. you get it already.
about the website:
currently there are no things to sell, but that is only because i am working feverishly to get some things up and at them.
while not being able to sleep for about two hours in the wee morning, i know this cause i had to recylcle my heating pad...it cuts off after 90 minutes, i thought about how i am going to manage everything. and i had an ephiphany:
i need to view each location/vendor as its own store, with its own products.
let me clarify:
if i choose to sell on etsy, the stuff that i sell there will not be stuff that i sell at thurs. nite market. and vice versa.
if i choose to have a shopping cart on my website, those items will not be listed or available anywhere else but there, unless i change my mind of course.
in other words, i realized that i cannnot cross vend, or sale. each "vendor, i.e. etsy, market nights, brick and mortar store" will have its own products.
i can however, cross promote! ala' marthatstewart
i know this might seem like a duh thing...but it was really an aha moment...so to say.
when you think about trying to sell products in multiple places...including e-commerce, its easy for things to get complicated.
for instance, i was thinking, what doesn't sell thurs. night i can place in my etsy shop, or on my blog, or some other place....
wrong!
that would be a nightmare, constantly trying to move things around, and keep track of this and that.
on to other news,
i also figured out two other challenges:
1. business cards, and
2. what the hell to do with my gocco
lets tackle number one first;
i have business cards, but don't want to hand out my cellie digits to all of riverside...but i do want them to go to my website, or to email me if they are interrested in my products. challenge was that my business cards had my cellie, an email address i don't use, and no mention of my website.
solution: moo cards (sorry i'm too lazy to put in the links) through flickr, i will create moo cards that i can hand out on thurs. nights, and also place with future shipping orders. love it! (dragon tales voice). i can put the info i want...the picture i want...and they are cheap to boot! 100 for 19.99...
and number two;
i got all geeked up and asked for a gocco (again sorry for the lack of link...look through feb. archives) for my 30th b day...tried to make a four screen print...got all dirty and inked up...and hated the process...and felt i had wasted *alot* of money on a machine i didn't like using...and that i really had no purpose for. at least not at the time. i kept thinking about all the other things i could of bought with that money. *sigh*
solution: hangtags...and custom inside bag lables...and eventually custom quilt lables. i knew i could do these things when i bought it, but for some reason, i couldn't really see it because i hated using it so much. well, i realized that there is surely a difference between trying to do a four screen print...and a one screen simple print. *sigh*
i know this was a bit long but there are two reasons for this:
1. i need to keep a record of my thoughts because there are so many i loose track with what i am doing or suppose to be doing at times. so this is like my record.
2. i hope that this information, or some of the solutions i've figured out will help someother crafty moms trying to start a business...or just wanting to sell some stuff somewhere for the hell of it. i've received so much inspiration from the world wide web...its bought time i shove some back...and i'm glad to!!
in other news, if you are thinking about trying this week's breadclub recipe...try at your own risk...mines failed miserably...and i don't got the time right now to figure out why...
okay, so back to work i go...i got nine bags to finish up...and lots of hang tags and lables to create.
thanks for listening...and here's hoping you'll create something grand this week!
lots of love
paz,
ki
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