Do your business & creativity need more mentorship and support in order to grow? Do you need certain tools and supplies, or maybe just regular quiet time, paper + pen and a cup of tea? Do you feel like you have what you need to grow and cultivate your success? This month on OMHG we are talking about growing our businesses & creativity from shoots to roots. Each of us … [Read more...] about #OMHG Question of the Week: What do you need to grow?
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Shoots & Roots: Growing Our Businesses Together
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. Julia Cameron, The Artists Way Hello April! Is it Spring where you are? Outside my window snow and ice are coating all the little buds and shoots in the garden, school is closed for a snow day, I'm starting to wonder if maybe Spring has forgotten us … [Read more...] about Shoots & Roots: Growing Our Businesses Together
The Truth Test: Staying True to Your Ethics
Sometimes the hardest person to stand up to, is yourself. As a small business owner, there most often is no other option. With no manager to keep you in check, no HR department to run a question by, and no corporate attorney to question your methods, most days the only person you have is yourself. You get to play good cop (Woo! We beat our sales goal - high five). But, you also … [Read more...] about The Truth Test: Staying True to Your Ethics
Ethics in Marketing: Use Your Marketing Superpowers for Good Not Evil
Ever notice yourself with credit card in hand about to buy an insanely expensive unicorn horn warmer? Something you clearly don’t need since you live in the tropics, but you purchase anyway? Marketing at its core is persuasiveness. The ability to make your customer feel understood, liked and excited. In the wrong hands though it is kryptonite, uranium and a really stabby … [Read more...] about Ethics in Marketing: Use Your Marketing Superpowers for Good Not Evil
The Ick Factor: When Your Personal & Business Ethics Don’t Align
Shopping small and local as much as possible is very important to me. When I started seriously making chainmaille, I decided to buy my supplies from a family-owned shop I came across on Etsy. I loved that my money was going toward supporting a fellow small business. Because I was new to making jewelry and metal is expensive, I started making silver plated jewelry. The … [Read more...] about The Ick Factor: When Your Personal & Business Ethics Don’t Align
