Start Up Kids Line

fires and flowers – business daily

February 10th, 2010

Up, down, round ‘n round; wee heee loooptees on my daily roller coaster. Every day in this business there are fires (rush order for big important client is running late) and there are flowers (someone you know mentioning they saw your product featured in a national magazine).

Yesterday, I got final confirmation from this fantastic woman that she definitely wants to rep our baby line. This was particularly thrilling because I really feel right her, and right about bringing her on board; lord knows I’ve been praying for help in the sales department. And more importantly, I feel we are good for her too, we have so much room for growth. That was in the morning. That was a whole bouquet of blooming flowers.

The day was busy.

Late afternoon, I had an appointment with the blanket sewing contractor. They want to raise the prices on every single little aspect of the manufacturing process  – to such exhorbant rates -, that I spent most of the appointment with either my jaw on the floor, or giggles of disbelief escaping my mouth. But I kept my cool, shared my perspective, and left saying I would look it over, price it out, and see what the helllllllllll we are going to do now.  That’s was a three-alarm fire.

Did you know that there are some flowers that only bloom after a fire has heated their seed pods to a temperature high enough to makes them pop out their seeds? Maybe it’s plants, but flowers works better here…

So, that fire blew over me and honestly, I went from thinking it could be the death of a product line to discovering options I didn’t even know existed. Thank you crazy contractor for having such an extreme moment that it pushed me to look for a new way. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Things are going to get so much better…

Have fun on your roller coaster today (it’s a thrill ride we are on by choice), remember to stop and smell the flowers (sometimes we don’t pat ourselves enough on the back for how far we’ve come), and most importantly, keep a fire extinguisher buckled in the seat next to you!

          

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