Category Archives for Building a business
GIVEAWAY: With Heart Merch!
Yay! It’s time for another Ginger-tastic giveaway!
You know I love doing these things but the offers have been few and far between these days so I just decided to do my own to promote my boutique.
For those of you that [...]
Rock the Vote For New With Heart Lines
Politically, I have no idea what’s going on these days.
But voting is something I understand!
Here’s the deal. for my shop With Heart, I want to introduce some new lines. The problem is, there are too many cool things to choose [...]
Building a Business: Lesson #2
You always spend more than you plan to.
I have an excellent example of this. I need to get some packaging & shipping supplies for all the stuff in With Heart. I’ve shopped around and compared places and settled on a [...]
More Good News!
So you all know that I was featured in the New York Times article about my involvement with the company Airbnb.
Now I am happy to announce that I officially work for Airbnb! I just got the offer tonight and I’m [...]
It’s Alive, Alive!!
It’s true! I finally got the site up and running, my friends!
I’m going ahead with a soft launch to start, and the official grand opening is scheduled for October 1st.
The soft launch will let me work out any kinks, learn [...]
Building a Business: Lesson #1
People are crazy.
I recently made some new friends, one of which is a graphic designer. I need a logo, she’s a designer, maybe we can work something out. I asked her if we could get together and talk about things, [...]
Roadblock!
Well I’ve come up against the first business-related roadblock that I can’t sort out myself.
I had no trouble getting a bank account for my business, but when it came to a credit card…. no dice.
I had to give RBC my [...]
Successful shopping for the store
Well today went fairly well despite the continuing heatwave.
I was lucky enough to stumble across a listing for the Big On Bloor festival on Friday night. Lucky because it was going on the following day, and was a great place [...]
Setting up the business bank account
…was surprisingly painless.
After taking a quick look around to find the best account, I settled on the $6 RBC small business account.
It’s basically pay-as-you-go, but it was the cheapest one out there. All the rest of the banks wanted to [...]
This Calls for a *Headdesk*
Yup. It sure does.
Shit that isn’t working for me right now:
Stupid Visa application
- I have to send in tax documents of all things just to get a damn card. What a fracking pain, those are with my parents. They better [...]
