Ok, I think we’ve all been there. It’s a Friday afternoon, you’ve been hard at work all week editing product photos, responding to Etsy inquiries and desperate to break out of your studio to get some fresh air when you think to yourself, “Having a storefront of my own would be so much more fun […]
Hey, Friends! Here we are again in a new year! With 2019 under way, I thought this would be a great time to talk about Q1 tasks and goals. I know that it is a good sound business practice to discuss the year ahead as a whole, but I thought it might be easier and […]
When you are starting a new business journey there is all kinds of information about what to do, how to do it and when to do it. But one of the struggles is deciphering what is true to large operations, as opposed to a small independent business such as a stationery boutique, like mine. […]
The National Stationery Show, for those of you who are new to the industry, is THE show for all things paper. Every May the stationery community descends upon Manhattan to make the Javits Center its temporary home for 4 days of total stationery bliss. And while most of us will spend months in preparation for […]
I was burned out. Big time! To the point of wondering if I was cut out for this. And that scared me. I mean in the realm of business I hadn’t really been at it that long, but I felt like I had spent the last decade trying to build up this brand that I […]