Category: business
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Marketing 101
When I go through my moments of angst about self-promotion, I try to remember the definition of ‘marketing’ i.e. sharing information (as opposed to advertising which is stuff you pay for – newspaper ads, tv, radio, etc.) One rule I have for myself is that on any of my social media accounts – including this…
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The Court of Public Opinion
nearing the half way mark on the place mat warp “You can please some of the people some of the time but you cannot please all of the people all of the time”. A. Lincoln I had to learn this very early in my career. Since I am essentially a ‘people pleaser’ (iow, I really…
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Crushing
work table and inukshuk of foam for packing the van still to be put away…. My to-be-done list is completely overwhelming right now. I think it’s a combination of fatigue and so many things to do that I just don’t know where to start! However we have made a little progress. Doug delivered most of…
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Crushing
work table and inukshuk of foam for packing the van still to be put away…. My to-be-done list is completely overwhelming right now. I think it’s a combination of fatigue and so many things to do that I just don’t know where to start! However we have made a little progress. Doug delivered most of…
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A Little Room
Today Doug unloaded the van and I unpacked the boxes of inventory. Tomorrow I will sort through everything and choose those textiles that will go on ‘sale’ in hopes of moving them on to a new home. There are several scarf lines that only have a few scarves left, there are just 9 placemats, a…
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Plodding
It took Doug all day yesterday to carefully fold and pack all the inventory we had in the store room. Although we don’t need it all for the first show, which is really quite a small show comparatively speaking, once we load up the van it won’t be unloaded again except for when we are actually doing…
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Opportunities
Received this lovely bag of yarn goodness on Wednesday and have no where to unpack it because I’ve got two other warps in process and they both need the work table very soon. If I unpack the bag it will no longer be contained but spread out all over, so other than take a quick…
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A Realistic No
The above ‘rat’s nest’ is actually more organized than it looks. The weave structure is Diversified Plain Weave (click on the label for more on that) and the pressure is on to clear this warp off the loom. My prospective client emailed this morning expressing interest in a ‘sample’ order. She had originally contacted me…
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Niche Market/Saturation
threading the first warp for A Good Yarn: Rayon First sample woven It seems my days are getting more and more disrupted this week – first clinic visits which were supposed to happen last week and got moved to this week, then a family event tomorrow that never got put onto my calendar and therefore…
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Fear of Failure
5 meter long red soy protein warp being beamed back to front using a reed as a raddle A friend once confided to me that because a project she had devoted a couple of years and a great deal of money to had failed she was battling the feeling of being a failure herself. I…