Starting a Baby Boutique & Clothing Line

Rambling and Social Networking

September 17th, 2008

OH, they meant having a clothing line would really be a lot of work?!?!

Well, duh, but at least it’s work I love. I’ve spent a bit too much time beating myself up, or at the very least, spinning my wheels. I picked up a notebook from a year ago and it had these ideas of ways for me to improve my time management, my productivity, my blah blah blah. And those “ideas” haven’t helped in the last year, no matter how many times I’ve tried to implement them. Sick of it already. Instead of always taking such a “big picture” approach, I’m thinking that I’m going to step in a little bit and step out of my comfort zone again. Focus. One baby step at a time. I see the next “to do” and raise you Watch me go, up up up and out of my comfort zone.

Which, it turns out, is REALLY good for your brain and the progression of your personality (no, really, it’s true). I saw a special about it. So, now it’s about soaring into a new vision cycle. I’ve had all these great ideas that would involve me stretching out of my safe cave, so I’ve been doing all the comfortable stuff instead. Well, it’s time to grow.

On the what HAS been happening side, we’ve already starting implementing a new vision and direction for the website - and it’s very exciting.

On the big “to do” side is finding the perfect packaging for our organic onesie gift sets.

On the growing-the-business side, I’ve been very much focusing on social media lately and I can’t tell you how many incredibly wonderful, trippy, funny, and intelligent people I’m getting to know. If you are starting a business, you’re building your brand and you need an online presence - you need to become the expert in what you do, you need to make others aware of you. Here are some good places to start:

• twitter.com
  
• Facebook (make sure you create your own personal profile as well as a business page for your “fans”)
• mompreneursonline.com
• twittermoms.com
• squidoo
• LinkedIn

Just create your profiles and join the conversation! Start sharing your knowledge, resources you like, tid- bits about your business and your daily life, anything that comes to mind. It’ll help your site SEO.

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