Category: Our Life

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

There will be times that you will need to make decisions about whether to go to a market or not. It is easy to make a decision and then wonder if it was the right one. Once a decision is made, all you can do is move forward.

Going Back to Shopify

Running an online store is challenging. Most of us don’t have the extra money to hire someone to run an online presence full-time so every minute spent dealing with online store issues is a minute away from actually running the business.

We Can Do That Too

When Monica and I started selling at markets, we watched what other people were doing with regard to their business. We got a lot of inspiration for our booth display and product presentation. We also saw all of the cool products they had for sale and we said to ourselves “We can do that too!”….

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Support From Your Spouse or Partner

So you have a great idea that you want to get started on immediately. You tell your spouse and they immediately get defensive. You get the impression that they think your idea sucks. What do you do? A lot of it has to do with the way in which you present your idea. Monica, while…

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Our Retail Experience

Going into a retail store can be one of the biggest decisions that you can make as a small business owner. As a big decision, it must be considered carefully.

Trudging Through Obstacles

You’ve heard the saying “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”, right? As a vendor, sometimes it feels that life gives you lemons and then drowns you in your own lemonade.

Learning From Our Mistakes

There is a saying in the military that the best thought out plans don’t survive contact with the enemy. Even though we don’t see our customers and markets as “the enemy”, our plans often don’t work out as expected.

There’s So Much To Do, I Can’t Get Anything Done!

When you start a small business selling at weekend markets and shows you start out thinking that you can make things all week and then sell them all weekend. That’s not quite true when you start to grow past a certain point. In fact, there is so much to do that I can’t seem to…

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