Wow, it's been a busy week! I don't want to talk too soon, but I think a pattern of mine is going to be published in a magazine!! I was putting the final touches on the sample to send for approval and still need to double check the pattern before turning that in. More details will come as things firm up...
Pushing to meet this deadline really made me start appreciating what great opportunities might be opening to me and got me to focus on the positive rather than the negative. The housework is still piling up, I'm still woefully behind on paperwork, I can't get MailChimp to automatically integrate with PayPal, but hey, I'm trying to let it all slide down my back like water off a duck and "like my life" :-)
Mmm, I am feeling a creativity spurt coming on though -- I've been seeing some really cool patterns in my mind's eye, so I'm hoping I can start actualizing them soon. As I've written about in the past, I so totally appreciate how small business owners struggle with doing the actual thing that they love (making their product) versus the business, marketing, organizing, etc. side of things. I'm enjoying trying out some new software products that are supposed to help automate certain functions, and I will definitely share as I find ones that work (probably helpful for me to share the ones that aren't so great either). I continue to really like MailChimp, but I have been experiencing some problems with trying to get different services to integrate with each other. Customer service has been responsive though, so I'm hoping to report a happy ending to that saga soon. I also think it might be time for me to start utilizing an accounting program to keep track of expenses and income (my Excel spreadsheet has been working ok so far, but I'm starting to see limits to my having to input everything manually). I just read about www.outright.com, which sounds like it might be what I'm looking for, but there is a monthly fee that kicks in after a trial period. I'm going to keep searching for a free service and will report back on that too! Let me know if you've had success with a service you like :-)
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