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Jul. 19th, 2003 12:14 amOkay so I'm not sure what I said in my last entry so I'll just say whatever here and you'll have to forgive me if I repeat myself.
Well I'm a business owner now, aren't you proud? yep lil' old me went and got a business license and an EIN so I officially own a business. It's currently not doing much of anything except hanging on my fridge. I don't have any capital so I can't even go to flea markets to try and make money with it so I'm still planning away.
BTW the name is: EcoVogue. What'cha think? Not too hippi? I probably should have asked that before I went and got the license and all but hey... I can still change it. I mean I only have the license in Cobb County and I plan to actually open the brick and mortar store in Fulton.
I've got lots of ideas for the logo and I think I've come up with the basic design but alas I cannot draw! And I am without a decent graphics program and probably wouldn't know how to use it if I had one so that's out too. Any of you graphic design people or drawing people out there wanna volunteer?
I’m starting to wish I had a partner. I mean the Alleycat is supportive and he really doesn’t mind me babbling on and on about it, which is nice, but it’s not the same. I wish I had someone who would hash out ideas with me and struggle over the same dilemmas. Above all though I wish I had someone who was as committed to and excited about this as I am.
I dunno I guess part of me thinks that if I had someone else here to go over the plans with, that somehow it wouldn’t feel so overwhelming sometimes. I know I have a tendency to over think simple things sometimes and I know that keeps happening with this business plan thing. So right now I’ll work a little and then start to feel overwhelmed and walk away for a while until I can come back, but that makes the going so slow.
And also doing this alone makes me nervous about showing my work to people. I’m just sorta afraid that it’s not professional enough or that it’s full of holes, and I’m delusional.
I’m hardly sleeping and I’m having to take sleeping pills… well not sleeping pills but herbal supplements to help me sleep. There is just so much to be done and I want it all NOW. It’s so hard to make my mind shut up for long enough to fall asleep. The day planner is helping that though. It gives me a way to tell myself I can stop thinking about whatever it is because tomorrow I will do it.
The business classes I am taking at the SBDC are really quite helpful. I mean most of the material I know from the books I’ve been reading, but it has been a great place to network. I’ve taken two classes so far and met 4 different people who are in businesses that I could benefit from… like two girls are opening a yoga center and another makes purses out of old jeans and another makes bead jewelry. Plus the classes are lead by experts in whatever field we are talking about. For instance, the legal class was taught by a lawyer that general bills himself for $230 an hour. I spent just under 5 hours listing to his advice for free!
Well I guess that’s about it…
I’m trying to decided if I should try and sleep or work more I have to take the aminals to the vet at 9:15am
Well I'm a business owner now, aren't you proud? yep lil' old me went and got a business license and an EIN so I officially own a business. It's currently not doing much of anything except hanging on my fridge. I don't have any capital so I can't even go to flea markets to try and make money with it so I'm still planning away.
BTW the name is: EcoVogue. What'cha think? Not too hippi? I probably should have asked that before I went and got the license and all but hey... I can still change it. I mean I only have the license in Cobb County and I plan to actually open the brick and mortar store in Fulton.
I've got lots of ideas for the logo and I think I've come up with the basic design but alas I cannot draw! And I am without a decent graphics program and probably wouldn't know how to use it if I had one so that's out too. Any of you graphic design people or drawing people out there wanna volunteer?
I’m starting to wish I had a partner. I mean the Alleycat is supportive and he really doesn’t mind me babbling on and on about it, which is nice, but it’s not the same. I wish I had someone who would hash out ideas with me and struggle over the same dilemmas. Above all though I wish I had someone who was as committed to and excited about this as I am.
I dunno I guess part of me thinks that if I had someone else here to go over the plans with, that somehow it wouldn’t feel so overwhelming sometimes. I know I have a tendency to over think simple things sometimes and I know that keeps happening with this business plan thing. So right now I’ll work a little and then start to feel overwhelmed and walk away for a while until I can come back, but that makes the going so slow.
And also doing this alone makes me nervous about showing my work to people. I’m just sorta afraid that it’s not professional enough or that it’s full of holes, and I’m delusional.
I’m hardly sleeping and I’m having to take sleeping pills… well not sleeping pills but herbal supplements to help me sleep. There is just so much to be done and I want it all NOW. It’s so hard to make my mind shut up for long enough to fall asleep. The day planner is helping that though. It gives me a way to tell myself I can stop thinking about whatever it is because tomorrow I will do it.
The business classes I am taking at the SBDC are really quite helpful. I mean most of the material I know from the books I’ve been reading, but it has been a great place to network. I’ve taken two classes so far and met 4 different people who are in businesses that I could benefit from… like two girls are opening a yoga center and another makes purses out of old jeans and another makes bead jewelry. Plus the classes are lead by experts in whatever field we are talking about. For instance, the legal class was taught by a lawyer that general bills himself for $230 an hour. I spent just under 5 hours listing to his advice for free!
Well I guess that’s about it…
I’m trying to decided if I should try and sleep or work more I have to take the aminals to the vet at 9:15am
