Handmade Beauty Connection A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
March
1, 2004
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 5, Issue 9
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: Welcome New & Renewing HBN Members!
2. Unleash The Power Of Your Beauty Business at dM's Beauty Business Boot Camp!
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Pineapple Paste
4. Beauty & The Business Trivia Question: win a personal 1/2 hour Lifestyle CEO consultation with me!
5. The Lifestyle CEO™: Are You Or Aren't You? That Is The Question!
1. HBN Update: Welcome New & Renewing HBN Members!
DK Mind and
Body | Danielle Fleming | Pennsylvania
* renewing member; products handcrafted
primarily using natural ingredients including oils, clays, spices, herbs,
flowers, butters, bee products, etc.
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Essentials | Lake Louise | California
* Lotus Moon Skin Care product line combining ancient
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Handmade
By Family Soaps and Such ... | Tina Parks | Kentucky
* creamy goat milk and honey soaps scented with essential and
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Uniquities
| Janean Haggins-Dabney | Michigan
* handmade soaps, lotions, bath bombs and shower gels made with
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Essence
Of Esther | Valeria Yates | Georgia
* making natural skin care products from scratch
Cheryl
Evans, LLC | Cheryl Evan | Washington, DC
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quality ingredients
Country
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or (4) using our new alphabetical listings. 1. Branding Your Business: How To
Maximize A Key Competitive Advantage
* soaps made with vegetable oils, beeswax and pure essential
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2. Unleash The Power Of Your Beauty Business at dM's Beauty Business
Boot Camp!
I'm delivering a high energy, informative series of workshops
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3. How To Get Inexpensive Media Attention For Your Business
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80 for all 4 information packed workshops, held March 27, 2004. Includes valuable networking opportunities! Don't miss this chance to benefit from business growth tips and camaraderie with fellow entrepreneurs!Early Bird Registration closes Friday,
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Register online, by phone or by email!3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Pineapple Paste
While
cutting up some pineapple for my daughter the other day, I noticed
that my skin was feeling especially oily. So instead of drinking the
juice from the fruit as I normally do, I added some honey to it. And
guess what? Pineapple
Paste took away my oily skin blues.
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4. Beauty & The Business Trivia Question: last week's winner was Ro Peluso of Trenton, NJ. Ro won a copy of Natural Hand Care by Norma Pasekoff Weinberg!
Last Week's Question: Earlier this month, a bit of ricin was detected in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. Ricin is a toxic substance taken from the squeezed out shell of the castor plant. Of course castor oil also comes from the castor plant, and is used to help increase lather in handmade soap. The bit of ricin found on Capitol Hill shut down the whole office building for a few days as investigators tried to find the source of the poison and eradicate it. Turns out the scare could have been a false alarm since ricin is a component of this typical office product used in office buildings like Dirksen all around the world. What is the office product?
Last Week's Answer: paper
This Week's Question: A great book on personal financial planning is written by an author who coined an interesting phrase to describe how the repeated purchase of inexpensive items like latte, bagels and cappuccino can slowly chip away at our finances and eventually rob us of our freedom since, if we invested those small amounts of money instead, we'd be rich. To win this week, state the phrase, the name of the book and its author.
Be the first to correctly answer this week's question and win a 1/2 hour Lifestyle CEO 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 will be announced in the next newsletter!
5. The Lifestyle
CEO*™: Are You Or Aren't You? That Is The Question!
\Life.Style
CEO\n. A person who owns and manages a business, not
solely for financial gain, but also to enjoy the personal rewards of
entrepreneurship, independence, flexibility and fun.
If you subscribe to this newsletter, I bet this describes your desire, or if you're lucky, your actual life! I coined the phrase "Lifestyle CEO" to describe what I hear all of you saying to me in your many phone calls and emails: we want to earn a living, but we want to do it on our own terms, having fun and with time left over to enjoy life with friends and family. If this describes the desire of your heart, this new column is for you! While I don't think there are any hard and fast "rules" to describe the perfect Lifestyle CEO, I do believe that people who thrive as Lifestyle CEOs possess certain specific characteristics. Over the course of the next several weeks, I will examine these characteristics as I have observed them over the years. Perhaps having a look at them will provide insight into your potential success as a Lifestyle CEO or confirm why it is that you are so good at it already!
A Lifestyle CEO is Flexible
"Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack jump over the candle stick." We are all familiar with this nursery rhyme warning Jack to jump over the candle quickly or risk having his little bottom burned. If you own your own small business, you have to be sort of like Jack. Like the flame from a candle, the marketplace in which a small business either lives or dies is dynamic. Unless the owner can embrace change, and is flexible enough to accommodate it without losing focus, like Jack, he risks getting his bottom burned!
If you don't have a naturally flexible personality, you'll want to cultivate one if you want to keep up with the dynamic and frequently unpredictable nature of small business. Compared to the rigid and stodgy business owner, it is the flexible business owner who rolls with the punches and responds quickly and affirmatively to a customer's needs. Do you need to create a new way to package an existing product line to accommodate a new customer's large order? Do you need to change the way your labels read in order to comply with a regulation about which you were previously unaware? Do you need to quickly hire an employee or independent contractor to qualify for an exciting new wholesale opportunity? To accommodate any of these unexpected events as seamlessly as possible requires a high degree of flexibility.
In this regard, being small is a tremendous advantage. Many large companies can take advantage of such unforeseen opportunities only after consultations with several different department heads and of course the bean counters. By the time all of the "honchos" sign off on the necessary changes, a more nimble competitor has stolen the business simply by accommodating customer needs in an efficient and flexible way.
The successful small business owner of today is flexible enough to embrace change rather than resist it. A positive response to unforeseen opportunities and circumstances gives us all a chance to grow and excel. Look for opportunities to exercise a flexible mindset. Make flexibility a habit! Quickly adapt to and embrace changing circumstances without losing focus and your chances of success in small business increase greatly!
*The Lifestyle CEO column was formerly known as "Create The Life You Love."
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