There were a fair few 'surprises'.
When I really think it through, they were almost all things that most people wouldn’t pick up except Jess and I but that just doesn’t make it ok!
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Ok, so we aren't exactly Pros by any means but here's some things we learnt from doing Life Instyle:
1. Be human. (Most important!)
You can't help it, you are human, don't try to hide it. Sometimes we jumbled our words, forgot things, dropped business cards on the floor. It's ok. You know the best thing? The person you are talking to is a human too.
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To celebrate International Women's Day Tinitrader asked to interview me along side four inspiring women. Gosh what an honour.
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The deadline for applications was sitting on the horizon but we didn't actually have any products, a logo, a website or anything much more than ideas to apply with. So this became the key task: build enough elements of a brand to make the application look good and then figure out the next steps after that!
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I love handmade, I love the connection to a person whose fingers have been all over my new mug, necklace or candle. But the thing I came to learn is that although I put ‘made by hand’ all over my products and put the concept on a beautifully crafted pedestal, I’m not really a maker. Don’t get me wrong, I can make. But I’m not an artist.
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Importantly I wanted to know who would be making my designs and see for myself what the factory that would one day take a healthy chunk of my money was like.
So when I told my husband I needed to go to China he understood that I was serious and that it wasn’t really up for negotiation.
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Learning that money doesn’t flick my switch was something I felt I had to keep secret. When I confessed to my very patient account that I couldn’t accurately tell her what I’d earned I felt like I must be doing it all wrong.
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