enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: small business
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I saw this tweet by Jordan Ferney of Oh Happy Day! a few weeks ago and haven't really gotten it out of my head since. I love the idea that if you want to grow your business, the only thing you can focus on is what you are doing. Nothing else matters. I remind myself…
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Last Friday and Saturday I participated in the Queen Bee Market. If you have been following this blog for the past few months you already know that my excitement level for this event was through the roof. I put a lot of time and energy into coming up with new displays and creating new product.…
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I spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning mapping out a good plan for my table at the Queen Bee Market. These iPhone photos are tragic, but I thought you might like to see how the table changed and finally came together. It still needs some finessing, more fabric and a run with an iron, but…
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Tackling some questions from this post today : Would love to hear any thoughts you have on branding…also any suggestions on setting up an etsy shop! My opinion on branding is Don't Obsess. You can change it. You are launching an Etsy shop, not a global business. You are going to evolve, your products are…
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Right now, my plan for my 4×8 craft fair booth is to have an accordion fold wall along the back edge and a folding table along the front. The table will hold the product and the wall will visually separate my booth from the others and serve as a place to hang print & poster…
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If I had an ELISE JOY team meeting scheduled for today I would say : "Good job this past quarter, team. We are right on schedule with product roll outs and are doing much better with expense management. I am happy to see that past workshops have all been turned into PDFs and I am…
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Amidst the blog workshop lesson developing, I am mentally planning out my booth for the Queen Bee Market in early May. This market is going to have a shared checkout which means I will not need to be at my booth for the entire two days. This is great news, as I am looking forward…
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I saw this quote on twitter a few weeks ago and loved it. It's exactly how I feel about creating new workshops. There is always so much to do. So much to articulate and then so much expectation. It's completely overwhelming. But so far, the end game is always worth it. Being uncomfortable makes me…
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Good news : I found out yesterday that I will be a participant in the Queen Bee Market this May. Hooray! I have heard a lot of good things about this fair and I hope it will be a good fit for me. I will have a 4×8 foot booth to fill and will be…
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