1. July 2011
Well, big news first: I launched my website! After a loooong day of coding and formatting on Sunday as we installed all my new pages onto the permanent site, Ryan and I crawled into bed at about midnight after FINALLY figuring out why the comment section was broken. I’ve gotten lots of positive feedback and [...]
24. June 2011
Let’s talk about fear. One thing I remember from my Midnight Hustling days (not so very long ago) is being afraid. Afraid that by taking the next step, I’d be exposing myself to rejection. Afraid that if I actually got a client, I wouldn’t know what to do (this one likes to pop up even [...]
17. June 2011
Two people walk into an elevator… Ah, the good old elevator speech! Well I’m not going to give you the usual drill because if you google “elevator speech” you’ll find dozens of how-to’s and examples (probably both good and bad). But the essence of the elevator speech – how to explain your business or business [...]
3. June 2011
Good morning and happy Friday! I am pumped to announce that we have our next MML Dream Reporter on hand, Maggie of Maggie Rose! [Insert cheers and applause here.] If you read Wednesday’s guest post by Maggie here on MML, you’ll know that she is exactly three days into running her e-decorating business and Etsy [...]
13. May 2011
Midnight hustler still. : ) This post is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. Which can really just sum up what our dream report has been about. Starting a small business is hard. Starting a small business with your husband is crazy. Good thing we both like a challenge and [...]
8. April 2011
On our last post, someone left a great question: “what exactly are you doing — didn’t you already have a photography business?” And today I am here to answer that question. Going back to one of our first posts, I wouldn’t say that we had a photography business last year. I would use the word [...]
1. April 2011
Move On. If there was one thing I could tell you it’s this: There is no good time to start your own business. There will always be something getting in your way or excuses to not propel things forward. May it be a job that you have to work at to pay the bills, may [...]
25. March 2011
There is Enough In all of our business planning, one thing has stuck out above everything else as a point of anxiety: competition. Not money, not marketing, not even the unknown. It’s always competition. Even the word sends shivers down my neck, as I’ve never been that great at competing. I fold in most games, [...]
18. March 2011
Success Defined Writing the Dream Report is very strange. Don’t read too much into that sentence — it’s a great exercise for start up business owners and a great feature on Makeunder My Life. But as I sit here on Thursday night (procrastination is my specialty), I keep thinking about one thing: success. Not about [...]
11. March 2011
I Now Pronounce You, Husband and Wife and Co-Workers I think it’s safe to say that Bryan and I are on the same team. When we got married three years ago in a little white chapel, we both agreed on a few terms: “to have and to hold for richer and poorer, through sickness and [...]
4. March 2011
Lose the Wait I don’t know whose research it was, but I believe there have been studies done to quantify how much time, through our entire lives, we spend waiting. Waiting for the bus, waiting in line at a store, waiting for the coffee to brew…so many of our everyday activities involve waiting in some [...]
25. February 2011
Try, Try Again {Image} I remember this poster from my elementary school so very clearly. Hanging oh-so-smugly in the hallway, I would pass it everyday on my way back from lunch. There in all of it’s printed glory with a man on a tight rope walking across some large canyon at the exact time of [...]
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