Handmade Beauty Connection
June 9, 2003
A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 |
Vol. 4, Issue 23
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1. HBN Update: Welcome Renewing HBN Members!
2. Create The Life You Love Summer 2003 Small
& Home-Based Business Success Series!!
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: The
Softest Hands
4. Handmade Beauty
Trivia Question: win a 1/2 hour legal and business consultation for your
business!
5. Create the Life You
Love™: The Five Business Personality Types,
Part I
1. HBN Update: Welcome Renewing HBN Members!!
Missouri Soap and Bath
| Debra Hendron | Missouri
renewing member; supplier
of handmade CP soap bases with all natural ingredients in grated form for
creating liquid or hand-milled soaps, or adding to M&P
Fairies Kiss | Kathleen
Vosburgh | Washington
renewing member; cold
process soaps, herbal, milk, Ayurvedic and specialty soaps, skin care and bath
products -- (you've gotta try their Rice Soap!!)
Learn more about our members and their exciting activities by visiting their Web sites through HBN's Online Member Directory, now with 4 ways to search: (1) by state/country; (2) by member business name; (3) by keyword search; or (4) using our new alphabetical listings.
2. Create The Life You Love Summer 2003 Small & Home-Based Business Success Series!!
Create
The Life You Love™
at dM's 2003 Summer Small & Home-Based Business Success Series,
Washington, DC
Three high energy mid-week networking luncheons to help your business reach its maximum potential! Choose one or two, or come to all 3 and enjoy a discount!
1. Branding Your Business: How To Maximize A Key Competitive Advantage, June 25. Speaker, dM.
2. Using An Email Newsletter To Promote, Market & Grow Your Business, July 16. Speaker, dM.
3. How To Get Inexpensive Media Attention For Your Business, August 6, Guest Speaker, Katherine Hutt, Media Relations Expert
Spaces are limited so sign up early to reserve your spot! To register online, click here.
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: The Softest Hands
Freshen your nail bed, smooth your hands and awaken your senses with The Softest Hands, a new recipe this week!
When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com, it's easy to buy the ingredients you need
from our Selected Suppliers:Essential
Wholesale: pure essential oils, base carrier oils such as avocado,
sweet almond, jojoba and shea butter and specialty packaging supplies!
Bramble
Berry, Inc.: over 75 different fragrance oils
(including their exclusive "Relaxing" and "Rosehip
Jasmine"), all soap tested, soap molds and unscented soap
bases!
SunRose Aromatics: pure essential oils (many organic), carrier oils and other aromatherapy products, each carefully selected for quality. Check out their Perfumer's Emporium!
The Scent Shack: fragrance oils and soap supplies. Fragrance oils are pre-tested in cold process, melt & pour soap, and candles, and test results are listed at the Web site. Scents tested by soapers for soapers!
From Nature With Love: our newest Selected Supplier with over 1,600 ingredients and supplies, including cosmetic ingredients, spa supplies, bath accessories and packaging supplies!
4. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: the winner of last week's contest was Sisina Tweed of Long Island, NY. Sisana won bar of handmade Lemongrass Soap made by HBN member Leslie's Garden Handcrafted Soaps!!
Last Week's Question:
Hint: I always include information about subscribership in the bottom of each newsletter -- plus you can enter as many times as you'd like!
Special Rule For This Week: you may only submit one response, and if you send more than one, only your first will be considered.
Last Week's Answer: 4,116 subscribers, but since no one guessed the exact number of subscribers, the winner is the person who was closest - that is Sisana, who guessed 4,100 subscribers
This Week's Question: As you know, Botox, a poison that temporarily paralyzes muscles that cause the formation of facial lines -- usually on the forehead -- has been approved for use in the US by the FDA. But Botox is not for every muscle. Another substance, made of purified human collagen, is designed to fill in fine lines on the lower part of the face. It costs about $400 per treatment and last about 7 months. To win this week, be the first to state the trade name of this product.
Be the first to answer this week's question and win a 30-minute legal and business consultation with me!
Please read the contest rules here before submitting your entry. Put "TRIVIA CONTEST ANSWER" in the subject line or your answer will not be considered.
While time does not permit me to respond personally to all entrants, the
winner's name posted in the following newsletter.
In my work with small business owners over the past several years, I have encountered at least 6 definitive "business personality types." While some people may be a combination of one or more of these types, nearly everyone I have encountered possesses one of these as their dominant business personality type. Over the next few weeks, I will review these personality types. As you read about them, see if you can categorize yourself or someone you know into one of the types. (Any resemblance to real people is entirely coincidental.)
Dan The Dreamer. Dan is a chronic planner. He doesn't go anywhere without his To Do list and his Palm Pilot. He seems extremely well organized as a result, but when you look below the surface, there's really not much there. Dan has lots of plans, and while he may accomplish his list of daily individual tasks, he never turns them into anything of substance. Dan wants to make money quick, and he always has a plan or the next "big idea," but he doesn't want to take any risks or spend any money to make his dreams a reality. Dan might have been the person who sent me an email last month that said, "my business is not very active right now, but I'd like to have your suggestions on ways to make money quick." Unfortunately, Dan's planning is a colossal waste of time. In reality, the only real plan he has is to stay right where he is.
Playful Polly. Polly is a lot of fun. She's fun to be around, fun to talk to, fun to have lunch with. And what's more, she has found her true passion in life -- let's say it's making children's clothing -- and she embroils herself in it every chance she gets. She subscribes to sewing magazines and newsletters, owns the hottest new fabrics from other countries and owns all of the supplies and equipment needed to participate in her passion. Since people have started asking Polly to name her price to make clothing for their children, Polly believes she has found a commercial application for her passion. So, she prints up a few business cards and sets up shop. The problem, as Polly quickly discovers, is that it's not as much fun when you have to do it. For example, if Polly has committed to finishing a christening outfit by tomorrow, but she really wants to play with the imported silk fabric just in from India, she has a real dilemma. Plus, as she moves forward, she learns that not only does she have to make things that other people want, but to keep the lights on, she has to make some things she doesn't like to make at all. As a result, Polly is constantly frustrated, and wonders how something she loved so much became such a drag on her emotionally and financially.
Do you see
anyone you know here? Maybe -- maybe not. Stay tuned next week for Part II
when we'll meet Wanda One-Way and
Carlton
Cruiser (a/k/a William Wing-It). Finally, in Part III, we'll meet Unimaginative
Ursula (a/ka/ Cora Copycat) and then finally, Solid
Sally
who trumps them all when it comes to setting and accomplishing goals for her
small business, and we'll discover some ways that everyone else can make the
changes that will make all the difference in their lives!
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