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Kelly Warren

Name of business: Happy Shack Designs

Social media links:
Website: http://www.happyshackdesigns.com
Blog: http://happyshackdesigns.blogspot.com
Jewelry shop: http://happyshackdesigns.etsy.com
Art and photos shop: http://kellywarrenphotoart.etsy.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Happy.Shack.Designs
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kellynwarren

Years in business: 7

Brief Bio:
An artist with a short attention span, I create work in artisan jewelry, fine art photography, mixed media, and book arts. I’ve also been known to sew a thing or two. I work full-time by day as the Director of Student Life and Leadership Development at a large four-year college in Florida, and am the lucky mama to wonderfully sweet eight-year-old twin red-headed daughters. I have been married to a handsome man of great patience who’s put up with my art shenanigans for 17 years now.

Success in business is defined as….
I think this is a very interesting topic, and I think it all depends on your goals and your outlook. For me, my art business is not my main source of income.

I have a pretty demanding full-time career in higher education on top of my art. So for me, success in my art business is simply finding the time to put a little bit of me out into the world for others to enjoy.

Would I love to be able to “quit the day job” and devote more time to my art? Absolutely, but I know that’s simply not a possible reality at this point in my life. So maybe for me, success in business is defined as knowing what my limitations are (time!) and embracing them rather than fighting them. Fighting them takes an awful lot of energy that could be better spent on enjoying the process instead.

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Robin Norgren

Name of business: Robin Norgren Studios

Social media links:
Website: http://www.robinnorgrenstudios.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/robinlnorgren
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wellofcreations.myetsyshop

Years in business: 4 years

Brief Bio:
I strive to live life to the fullest. No matter what. I have grown into myself through my love for Jesus and HIS LOVE FOR ME. Art, motherhood, business, creativity and yoga are the cherished vehicles for this deepening. Life can be FULL, JUICY, MEANINGFUL, PURPOSE FILLED, LOVELY. I want to help you come to your fullest life. I create workbooks, ecourses and workshops that chronicle my change and growth and offer you ways to find out what YOUR FULLEST life will be.

Success in business is defined as….

For the first couple of years of my online business I wanted so much to really make all the money that people seemed to allude to. More marketing, more connecting, constant blogging, relisting on etsy, social media at all hours of the day and night. Oh! And make sure you are near your email just in case that huge wholesale order comes in…

After months and months of questioning my work ethic (maybe I was not committed enough) and my pricing structure (are my prices too high?), I finally stopped. I had to take a good hard look at the reality: the business was running me.

I had to admit that I felt this pressure ALL THE TIME about this business which at best was making a supplemental income for the hours of labor I was putting into it. Here are some things that helped me to redefine my definition of success:

1. I began logging EXACTLY how much time I was spending in each area of my business and correlating that with sales

2. I got REAL about my accounting for my business.

3. I took a break for about 30 days where I created NOTHING.

Today I define success in business as:
The ability to be able to create what I love in a manner that inspires me and thus flows into the quality and design of my products and feeds not just my pocketbook but my soul.

Robin Norgren is currently completing her life coaching certification and would LOVE to offer you a FREE 15 minute mini session – sign up for her mailing list here: http://www.robinnorgrenstudios.blogspot.com/p/life-coaching.html

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Hello !

I am happy to be part of a fantastic project initiated by Robin from Well Of Creations. She gathered 10 women who were all part of the first tribe of Kelly Rae Roberts’ «Flying Lessons» online class. It was two years ago already… and it completly was what I needed to begin to make art my business. I still struggle but it was the kick I needed. If you are interested, Kelly Rae made a fantastic e-book from what she taught, see the link on my side bar ——-»

We will all answer 10 questions about our creative business, each answer is assigned to one blogger (to make it clearer you will have 10 answers/blog to the same question).

My question is:«Success in business is defined by…….», so stay tune to discover each day one of the participant’s answer and then mine in two weeks.

PS: the first blogpost will be up in a few minutes from now 😉