About me
These 11 things reveal 87% of what’s worth knowing about me (in no particular order):
- I’m both blessed and cursed with a loving family
- I’m as-good-as married to my perfect guy, who I met online 7.8 years ago
- I am INFJ, heavy on the I and J, middlin’ on the N and F
- I need a haircut
- My favorite places to shop are Costco, Trader Joe’s, and Whole Foods—and usually in that sequence
- I regret introducing our cat, Suzu, to the bliss of freeze-dried salmon treats because it brought out his inner dog
- I’m learning to enjoy daily exercise
- I’ve spent 74% of my years in some realm of formal education
- I was supposed to be an architect but always wanted to be a librarian
- Well-presented data makes me happy
- I’m honored that you read this far
About the blog
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference,
you haven’t been in bed with a mosquito.”
~ Anita Roddick
This site is for the 20 million American business owners running the smallest shops on the smallest budgets. Most of us don’t last three years, but we’re all doing our best to get something started and keep it profitable.
Many of you are like me, flying solo with only one pair of hands to do all the work. Others have two or ten people to help out, but we’re all working with the same limitation: we don’t have deep corporate pockets when it comes to starting up, branching out, or moving forward.
And really—though it would be mighty fine—we don’t need the big money. There are loads of free and affordable tools and services to keep us rolling with the agility that big businesses envy. There are books and websites aplenty on how to leverage our size to get what we want.
Loads. Aplenty. Mountains of stuff, really. More than you have time to read about…
Really.
So I’ve assigned myself the task of sifting through it all and bringing you the best bits. I’ll tell you what works for me, what works for others, and what simply doesn’t work.
And whether you agree heartily, disagree with vigor, or are kinda meh about it, leave a comment so we can all know how you feel.
My Big Bright best,
Whew! Taking a short break from blogging, folks. More posts coming soon. Thanks for your patience!
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