Blog entries tagged 'business'

Wow! Another year has passed

Louise

as my sister has been extremely ill and my darling son gave us a few scares this year with his health also...

Looking back in hindsight (yes wonderful thing hindsight is eh!) i realised that i was overwhelmed by everything. Business was picking up, i had a number of new clients sign up and i sourced some really great deals. For a number of years I was planning to open a Party store, and so was still trying to reac [...]

Free Giveaway Worth $197! Do You Want To Know How To Flourish Your Business During Tough Times?

KimBaird

ry hard to pull in just about anyone who will give them some money, many billboards around have now been empty for months and commercial property is sitting empty for months on end with no tenants.

- So is your business slowing down at the moment?

- Noticing that customers are dwindling away and not sp [...]

Updating Your Website

MyCanvas

way to go!! From picking the brains of every 'techy' or 'internet savvy' person I have met over the last few months I now know that I need to keep updating my site ALL the time as the powers that be at Google like that and it tells them that your website is still alive and kicking. But then you start to think??? If I need to update it ALL the time how can I do that without paying someone to do the back end technical stuff which I can do as I don't have a big budget to do.

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Working away from home

MyCanvas

n it's just me. Plus not being on Exchange Server an 'out of office' reply isn't an option.

Any tips for a way round this from any fellow home based businesses? How do you let people know you may not be able to reply to emails straight away? Maybe setting a rule on incoming emails?? Any tips would be good.

Everything else was pretty easy, managed my workload so customers orders were timed for expected deliveries a couple of days after my return and having a lapto [...]

BodyTalk Marlborough

success4eva

ong with all the environmental, hereditary/historical influences, the social conditionings and beliefs and attitudes all affect our ability to lead calm, happy and productive lives.
Our body has 2 primary modes of operation - 1.growth and healing, 2.protection and armoring/fear.
We are either in one or the other as our bodies do not have the resources and ability to be in both states. This is like having the brakes and the accelerator on as you are cruising down the road. The ride [...]

Are your old photos/video and digital photos safe

Sandra

how would you feel if you lost all those precious moments that those images represent. I know I would be devastated.

So now there is a solution. A free online storage website password protected where you can upload your digital photos direct but also we can scan and digitised your old photos and video and upload them to you website. These will be stored for life 100% guarantee that they will never be deleted! and once you have preserved all your precious [...]

Well - 2007 is almost behind us!

Louise

one being with us.

Partyfind has come a long way - mostly due to an attitude change in myself. For a few years I treated Partyfind as a hobby and i realised in order to make a success of the business I needed to treat it like one. So i set about creating deadlines and goals and with the help of Entrepreurette i've been able to write down what seemed so jumbled in my head! It's been a great experience - for the first time we started making real progress - i fina [...]

Time to check in again!

Louise

ours playing with balloons...needless to say I was on a high and i'm rearing to go. I am wanting to add balloon boquets to Partyfind - and will launch that service on Valentines 08. In the meantime it's practice practice practice for me. Eventually i'll do the wedding stuff - but I'm not confident in my designs yet.

Doing this course opened up a few more contacts and I have a website I can log into and get instructions on how to do various boquets - [...]

Introducing Fee's goal blog

Fee

resources that you discover that could help others

- to rant, rave, share your successes, share the lows...

Why?

So people can offer you feedback, encouragement and advice with their 'comments'.

So they learn more about you and your business so they can use your services or refer people to you.

term 3 week 2

Mm07

k I want to finish clearing out that room and to start sorting out all of our toys and art supplies in the next room, so they are easily accessable. Sorting our rooms seems to be a never ending juggling game!

One of my business dreams is to grow and sell vegetables, flowers and herbal teas. We have enough land for a decent sized garden to start us off. Last summer I had a small garden. My gardening is much like my weaving has been, rather a gamble. Put in some seeds and watch to see what t [...]

term 3, 10 weeks

Mm07

ve baby blankets, in the weaving style of the maori cloak. I have so far woven 2 of these blankets, one first for my new born son and the second i wove in time to be a gift for my daughters 7th birthday. These 2 were woven with wool that I already had at home and took about 40plus hours. They were also just woven without planning, just watching and learning as I went along. I am now ready to make my first one with intent to sell. I have just purchased the wool for it, 100% nz wool, colours for a [...]

July 9 - Week 3

Louise

ee what they looked like - anyhow cutting a long story short - I ended up putting them up on my website and on trade me under the headline friday the 13th! and blow me down i've almost sold all my stock. I couldn't believe it - some corporates said they did a google search for halloween supplies and it came up with my website - so we're slowing getting up there in Googleland. This has also lead to a couple more leads this week and an average spent of $95.00 per order..so I' [...]

1 July - Week 2

Louise

they approached me so we're just working out the finer details.

I'm also going to have a Stall at our local

Plunket centre. I'll be selling party items and handing out flyers that give Plunket members 10% when they shop online - i'm also working on a fundraising idea that will also benenfit the business and get more exposure.

The design of the new website is going slow- having to rely on outside sources to do what I need - so not working as fast as I like.

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Here's me in a nutshell

Louise

ice from my Group Forum and am heeding Michelle's advice to start with the Basic Priorities - so am spending this weekend figuring those out.

Steve has the task of watching and caring for Daniel - however needs to check in with me constantly so am finding that wanting time out and getting timeout aren't the same thing. I think I will take myself off to a cafe or library next week for my timeout - so I can work in peace.

Life's been pretty crazy - we are still wai [...]

Brain dump

Fernhill

y two of us in the group speak english as a first language and only two of us have any idea about what goes into a business! So as you can guess these little issues would lead to be huge disasters when we had to start anything. Well we messed around for the firts 4 weeks of the project so when it came to the last couple of weeks we had to rush to design our product and come up with a plan.
Our product was a coconut oil based lip balm which (just like so many other busines [...]

End of Week 1

Michele

Not a good week - I have been sick and not capable of doing much. Life keeps plodding along anyway and the work is piling up. I am feeling sorry for myself today as I just got my marks back from my 2nd assignment from my Massey Uni writing course and didnt do as well as I thought. So there, I am hopeless and I have to do something about it. So have been trying to get some useful criticism from my tutor, but he is being very vague so will have to figure out a plan B (find a cour [...]

what is a goal blog?

Fiona

At entrepreneurette a goal blog is a way to track the progress of your goals, using a standard blog platform. It's a journal of your successes, frustrations, obstacles and rants. And like a blog, you can get feedback from readers of your goal blog, and you can comment on other goal blogs, which creates a two way dialogue.

So we encourage you to comment on your council group members' blogs; give encouragement and feedback where you can!