Under the Mattress? It's time to find a place to stash all the cash you'll be generating! If you chose a sole proprietorship instead of LLC, it is not super important to have separate business and personal financial accounts - but I strongly recommend it . Eventually, you should move up to an LLC, and it will be much easier to transition if you already have the financial accounts set up early ...
Archives for January 2019
Mompreneur Bootcamp Day 8 – Set up Order Tracking System
I'm going to get orders?! If you're going to be taking orders from people, you need an order tracking system, regardless of whether that system is on paper or on your phone/computer. Tracking orders can be tedious and cause a lot of grief and hassle for crafters like us. I'm going to give you a basic order tracking system, but keep in mind that this is just for starting out. As you grow, ...
Mompreneur Bootcamp Day 7 – Set up a Home Base
A Place to Call Home Now that you've reserved your business name everywhere, it's time to focus on building a home base. Your home base is the social media platform where you'll focus your most effort to gather customers. Side note: I think building a website is a better home base, but that's waaaaay too advanced of a topic for a 10 day bootcamp Only build One Home! The temptation for most of ...
Mompreneur Bootcamp Day 6 – Reserve Your Name
Reserve Your Name Now that you've decided on your name and have an email address and logo for it, it's time to reserve the name everywhere. I'm talking about going out to every major online platform and creating an account for your business. It's a lot of work, and you won't even be using each platform… so why do it? If you don't reserve your name, you run the risk of someone else squatting on ...
Mompreneur Bootcamp Day 5 – Create Logo
Let's Get Creative! Time to let your creativity shine! Let's make a logo for your business! Your logo will be prominently displayed everywhere that you are marketing your brand. The logo is VERY important for establishing yourself and connecting with customers. I recommend starting out with a logo that is simple, such as using a cute font with a little bit of embellishment from free clip ...
Mompreneur Bootcamp Day 4 – Create Your Email Address
Which email should you use? Email will be super important for communicating with customers and establishing accounts. But which type of email do you want? DO NOT use your personal email address - create a new one. So, do you want your new email address to have something like @gmail.com or @outlook.com? Or would you rather have one with your own custom domain, like I do with ...
