Tag: Business
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The pitfalls of Networking for small businesses
“Reciprocal networking, or ‘like for like,’ has been a common practice for a while. You like my page, I like yours, simple, right? 😊 But here’s the catch: it doesn’t actually work. All you end up with is a bunch of followers who aren’t genuinely interested in your work, and often, you’ve just added potential…
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Business Coaching
Announcing the upcoming Business Coaching Group! If you’ve been following my journey, you’ll know about my Rag quilt story. As a grandmother from New Zealand, I embarked on making rag quilts for my granddaughter with zero prior experience. It was a leap of faith, as I had never even seen one in real life. After…
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Let your customers know you!
Scenario 1 – You’re rushing into the supermarket in your usual last-minute hurry with a million things on your mind. There’s a raffle seller at the door, she makes eye contact but you avert your eyes, sail through the door, and never think of her again. Scenario 2 – You’re dashing into the supermarket in…
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Busy Girl Curls longer hair version
Last night, my lovely daughter visited, and she tried out my heated wrap. Her hair looked stunning, but Georgia’s long, thick hair made me realize she’d benefit from a longer wrap. Today, I crafted and tested a longer version specifically for long hair types. I used ties today as my hair is mid length but…
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Busy Girl Curls
It’s always a mood boost when your hair looks good. Sadly until I created these heated hair wraps my only option was to scrunch my hair dry or let it dry naturally and wear it in a ponytail. I never mastered the art of curling my hair with a flat iron and I had plenty…
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Busy Girl Curls and the importance of being real
Hi everyone, I’m posting this here because it’s a new business venue but also because it’s a point I try to impress on my business coaching clients. Let your customers see your face! They need to know who they are buying from. They need to recognise you, they need to trust you and they can…
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Busy Girl Curls
I’ll tell you a little secret. I cannot style my hair. I used to wear my hair straightened in my 9-5 retail days because it’s all I could do. The result was hair so fried I couldn’t grow it past my shoulders. All I wanted were soft bouncy curls but unfortunately that took overnight planning.…
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Shoefflès
Greetings from the Deep South! These past few weeks have been filled with valuable lessons for me. I’ve been delving into the intricacies of patents, understanding how they operate, and particularly how to avoid infringing on someone else’s rights. Despite encountering a similar patent for my new product idea, albeit with a different design, I…
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Why FREE isn’t the best strategy
⁃ people don’t place as much value on anything free. It’s easy to forget about it or push it aside and it doesn’t matter because you didn’t lose any money, right? If you pay for something you are more invested in using it and learning, so more likely to succeed. I want my coaching and…
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Starting a craft business
Good morning! it’s a fabulous warm early Summer day here in the South of New Zealand. Not too hot and not too cold. I’m assembling some old sheets to cut up for the next tutorial and earlier I had the chance to meet (Zoom) with a couple of lovely ladies to discuss a plan to…
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Comments?
Happy Tuesday from the land of NZ. Just a reminder I have changed the settings to No Comments on this blog. I made that change because of Spam so all comments will be declined. If you are a Caterpillar Club member you can always reach me through the group pages. There is a question &…
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Working from home
I’ve just been reading a thread on an online forum. The poster asked whether she could make a decent living from making quilts from home? I was surprised to see almost 90% said no. The reasons ranged from people won’t pay for your time to people don’t buy that they can make themselves. Ok You…