Advice for business owners

Jennifer shea and Sally Brock – Business plan! ditto!
Faythe levine – no business plan!

no right way to star t a business.

Lisa Congdon – Do I want to do this by myself?
It can make it easier to have a business partner, less isolating

Money – what to do with it?
Do i invest this in more product? or save it up for leaner times? pay ourselves?
when to know when to either.

Faythe – what do you want to do. how will this fit into your lifestyle and personality. Do you want to have a business that sustains your forever? or do you see your self doing it for a few years. something to think about.

Jen S -took 10 years to being her idea to fruition, did tons of research, etc.

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fuuuck. I’m the WOSRT LIVE BLOGGER EVER. I give up!
Okay, I should have just taken notes but I got overwhelmed.

Even though I don’t really want to open a brick and mortar shop this was a super interesting panel. It was filmed so once we have that footage online I’ll link up to it.

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And then I turn around for ONE SECOND.

And all hell breaks loose as Jack grabs the tin and not only turns it upside down but done so in such a  ‘flingy’ way that buttons go into every single crevice possible for button kind. Then the rampaging starts. As I am frozen to the spot in utter horror he takes the opportunity to bend over and spaz his hands in the buttons while shrieking with joy. Then he starts running around and little buttons are stuck to the bottoms of his feet and make little clicking noises. Its hilarious but is such a disaster than I am almost in tears.

I’m racing around trying to gather buttons back up and he is flinging them everywhere making lunges for the tin I am trying to refill and doing a tiny godzilla tap dance of joy every time he moves.

Things will never be the same. Buttons are lost for sure and I see three still over by the dresser right now.

This was on Wednesday I think. So then, yesterday, he and I are in the baby killer craft room and I am sorting through my fabric stash and I come across one of those bags of pom poms that you can buy at Michael’s. You know when you need like 5 pom poms but can only find the HUGE BAG of 1000. So I think, “hahaha, it would funny to give him this bag”. HAHA. Indeed. Now it looks like a clown threw up in my craft room.

Yesterday I was struggling with my addiction. My mind was on buttons as you know and I was itching to try making my own fabric covered ones. So my sponsor happened to call and I confessed my thought crimes. “How can I justify buying one more craft tool? “. I whined. And instead of the voice of reason she’s all, “oh that sounds awesome you should totally go get that!!” Thanks Mom.

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I’m not averse to going back in there and poking around. It might be that I hate forums. I hate sorting through peoples responses. I wonder what other sort of socail media type sites would work. What about a twitter for crafters or twitter could have “channels”.

Does anyone use craftster? How do you use it? What other crafting social media type sites do you use? Er… are there any other ones? I can’ t think of any right now. Threadbanger counts I guess, for fashionistas. Actually, I love Threadbanger anddon’t go over there enough. I need ot add to my blogroll.

I love hearing about and seeing other people crafty goodness, ideas and techniques and creative flights of fancy but rarely get to actually connect with other crafters. This is one reason I am going to do more needlepoint as it is more social and portable (and isn’t knitting). Maybe I’ll go look forthe church of craft people that I think meet in oakland.

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