I'm a perfectionist. I freely admit it. I will tweak and tweak on a project until the very last moment. My brother and I have hard launched our website today. It has been out there for a while, but we didn't tell anyone about it. We tweaked and tweaked it. We have spent countless hours coding, organizing, coding, implementing, coding, designing, coding, testing, and yes more coding. We are over-achievers too. So instead of launching one or two companies, we pick about 15. Instead of a few hundred products, we pick 20,000. We jumped heads first into the deep end.
Today, we let our friends and families know that we want everyone to know about us. We started phase 1 of our media launch. With some apprehension, we sent out the word that we are good to go. Yes, there are still a few things that we will still be tweaking on into the wee hours of the night. It has a been a big lesson in letting go the perfectionist thing for a while. I see the flaws and what needs to be changed, but I know others will see something different. Hopefully, something creative, successful, and eventually profitable.
We have been greatly encouraged over the last few weeks with sales coming in and we hadn't hard launched yet. People were finding us through all of our SEO work (which is really, really boring if you don't know anything about it.) Basically, we were starting to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, and Bing and we were pushing our pages up the index ladder so searchers can actually find us and hopefully buy something from us.
We are excited about this new chapter in our lives and hope if you see this blog post that you will check us out at
yourhomeoutlet.com!
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See Spot Find blog. We will post decorating tips and designing trends, as well as the latest promotions and updates about our company. Also, it will have a more relaxed atmosphere and reflect our unique personalities.
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Clothes-making is fast becoming a lost art. Even two generations back, most women made their own clothes and everything for the family. Had I lived back then, my family would have had to resort to fig leaves I guess. Actually, I would have worked out some business plan of buying extra clothes from the 'real' women and set up a retail shop. It would have been a neat little frontier clothing store. I would have probably called it "Cotton Jen's" or something. Think of the giveaway... a jar of butter!
