For the last decade, I’ve been slogging away in the entrepreneurial trenches. During that time, I’ve learned innumerable lessons about life, liberty and the pursuit of an empire. I’ve been on television and splashed across magazines. I’ve sat in thatched roof huts in West Africa and been flown to Dubai for press junkets. I’ve…
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What 10 Years in Business Have Taught Me
Yesterday marked ten years since I started my first company. I spent the day enjoying my family, indulging in a long bath, a pot of fresh ginger tea and a long walk down Memory Lane. I realize it’s cliche, but I could not possibly have imagined this journey when we flipped the switch on the…
50 Blog Post Ideas for Beauty Entrepreneurs
During last week’s LBU: Secrets to Wholesale Success Office Hours call, we were mulling over the challenges of blogging. We all agreed on the numerous benefits of blogging for small businesses: 1. Blogging provides a steady stream of fresh content, which encourages Google’s spiders to crawl your site more often, boosting your organic…
Price-O-Matic is Finally Here!
For far-too-many years, I struggled with how to price my products. Late nights of cursing and crying and worrying were commonplace as I wrestled to get a firm grip on raw material, labor and overhead expenses and then extrapolate a competitive pricing structure from those figures. Enter my tech-savvy husband: I sweet talked my…
Recap: Tennessee Soap + Candle Social
Last weekend, I spent the day with 60+ bath and beauty entrepreneurs in Nashville, TN. There’s a tangible high to be had when there’s that much synergy in the room and the Tennessee Soap + Candle Social did not disappoint! I was honored to be asked to keynote the event and I seized the opportunity…