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Motivation Monday: Success Comes From Hard Work

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary - VIdal Sassoon "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon

It takes a lot of work to be successful, as we're sure many of you know. Here's to a successful week! #motivationmonday

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Alrighty, y'all. Yesterday with the launch of our Gift Guide, it means only one thing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The holidays are coming. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you're an online shop owner, seeing those four words puts you in one of these three spots: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (a) You're good to go! You've got a plan in place, everything is set, and no matter how many orders you get you know that you'll be calm, cool, and collected. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (b) You're almost there! You just need to take care of a few more details. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ or (c) Well, thinking about it right now makes you feel like you're in a bit of a conundrum, because you still don't know what to do. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You may be wondering, ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Should I create bundled products to sell as gift sets?" ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Should I offer free shipping, or sell my products at a discount?" ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Do I *really* need to participate in Black Friday/Shop Small Saturday/Cyber Monday/Giving Tuesday for my business?" ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you've found yourself asking any of these questions or are currently still on the conundrum side of things, make sure you check out the blog tomorrow because we've got a post coming your way with a few suggestions and ideas to help you to make this season one of your best yet. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you've been wondering anything in particular, ask away below, and let's see if we can help you figure it out today! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #creativefounders ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ {photo by @xoashleyvictoria; cards shown created by one of our #creativefoundersconference sponsors, @togink!}
The 2018 Gift Guide is now available! A plethora of different products are included by more than 40 different business owners, so it’s easy than ever to shop small this season! Visit the link in our profile to go right to it, or head on over to our Instagram Stories to shop directly from each category! 🎉 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #creativefounders #creativefoundersgiftguide
At our Conference this fall, these menus adorned each of the tables before our Celebration dinner on Saturday evening. When I originally received them in the mail, they started out as clear acrylic pieces with white ink only, but I wanted them to turn into more than that. I had this idea to add our logo to it, in addition to layers of acrylic paint on the back to create an entirely different look for them overall. The end result was one that was a favorite design I've done yet. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ These menus came about from a need for me to simply create. To create something that wasn't tied to a computer, to create something that challenged me to work with new mediums, that left my hands filled with paint, and my heart energized in the best way. At the Conference when talking about these menus, I shared that it's so important to remember that we should never get so busy creating our content (for social media, blog posts, etcetera) that we forget about the joy we have creating our original content (like these menus, or an invitation suite, or a set of cards) that is our main purpose .... you name it, what content do you create that fills your heart with joy? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We are blessed to get to share the content that we create, every single day. We get to work with our hands or in programs to create things that otherwise wouldn't have ever come to life, they never would have existed if we didn't put our minds to them to put them out there. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I say all that to simply say this: never get so wrapped up in creating your *additional* content that you don't take time simply to enjoy creating the *original* content with the products you create. We can all get so busy with all of the things that encompass running our businesses, but at the end of the day, we are all creatives who do what we do from a need to simply create something that was previously only a thought in our minds. Don't forget about the joy you get from simply doing just that. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #creativefounders #creativefoundersconference {📸:@xoashleyvictoria}
The day has arrived!! Our Creative Founders Shop is NOW OPEN!! 🎉 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We have designed items that celebrate who you are as a creative entrepreneur - whether you've got a plethora of paints in every single spot imaginable or designing with typography is more your style, head on up to the shop at the link above to peruse the products we have available for you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ For all orders $50 and over, they'll ship free, with no code needed. This will last through midnight tonight, as a way to say thank you for supporting this new addition of ours! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And oh yes ... there is one more thing. If you were on the Shop Details List before noon today, make sure to check your email before heading on over to the shop to find a little something extra just for y'all. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #creativefounders
In business, you have to constantly be thinking ahead ... if there is something you want to have happen in six months or a year, have you ever made into a long master list of everything you need to have accomplished for it by then? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Have you then taken it task by task and organize it to see what you can start today, what you can do in three weeks, three months, and in the days just before then to make it come to fruition? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Making a goal, planning things out, and then moving forward with it day by day will always make the big things you dream about come to fruition. If you have a goal to do something in your business that's going to take you a while to do, how can you break it down into small, tangible tasks where you can literally see the work you are doing, step by step, line by line, item by item, day by day? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Don't be afraid to get out a bunch of sheets of paper or posterboard if you need to initially. Spread out all over the living room floor, use a plethora of post-its to get all of your ideas out .... don't worry about them being neat or organized at that stage, just get them out of your head so that you can see them down on paper and after you've done that, plan out a way to make them happen, create a list of tasks needed to simply get moving on them. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ There's a popular quote by Karen Lamb that says "a year from now, you'll wish you had started today". What is it that a year from now, you want to have accomplished, that you can start working towards, today? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #creativefounders {📸: @xoashleyvictoria}
Tomorrow at 12:00pm CST, our Creative Founders Shop opens. We created this shop to celebrate YOU, but more importantly, we are thrilled to be able to use this as a different way to give back while featuring artists, makers, and designers, too. More to come on this, and we'll share all of the details about this in the weeks ahead! .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Out of all of products we will have available for you to choose from, we do believe that this mug will quickly become a favorite. To be 100% honest, when designing this one and inputting the title in the product listing, we may have had to do a few double takes (and even then, tell ourselves that this WAS right) in the spelling because every time we see this word spelled this way, our stationery quickfire instincts tell us to correct it. #truestory ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Not only have these products been created to highlight the joy, the hard work, and the passion that goes in to being a creative entrepreneur, we want to help you have a little bit of fun while you’re at it every day as well. So tomorrow, that's exactly what you'll see, and we hope you are going to LOVE it! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You design incredible products day in and day out for your specific clients and customers to fill THEIR wants and needs ... we are thrilled to be able to design products specifically for YOU! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ To be the first to know when the shop is live (and perhaps receive a little something extra in your inboxes tomorrow when the shop launches), head on up to our Shop in our profile and join our Shop Details List! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #stationerylove #notstationary #creativefounders
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