Business
Posts about my meandering journey into business ownership – from dreams of owning a retail boutique to freelancing as a web/graphic designer, to successfully starting and running a digital marketing agency. Thoughts on balancing entrepreneurship with family and motherhood.
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Report Card
I am beat. And miserable. This past week, I have been working almost nonstop. Between new website projects, client meetings, Papoose, researching/writing for this blog, childcare and housework, I worked pretty much from 9:30 am until 2:00 am for about five days in a row…until all those late nights caught up to me and whatever…
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Celebrating Women
Chris may be on vacation for two weeks, but I am working away. Not only have I spent many hours this week thinking and reading about, then writing yesterday’s post, but I’ve also been doing quite a bit of “real” work too, both for Papoose and web design/development. In the wee hours of the morning…
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Report Card
I need to manage my time better. I just spent 20 minutes deciding on/editing/uploading on a new cover photo for my Facebook timeline. The dishes are done, the bathroom is clean, and the floors were swept yesterday, but mopping just isn’t going to happen. Again. I need to finish a proposal for a web design…
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30 Days of Thanks, Report Card
I haven’t run the gauntlet recently because, as I’ve mentioned, I haven’t really been meeting all my goals lately. I’ve been buying fancy produce, eggs, dairy, and cheese at the grocery store like there’s no tomorrow. I skipped out on yoga again this morning because I finally decided it was time to get the laundry out of baskets…
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30 Days of Thanks: Report Card
How is Thanksgiving the week after next? How are we already 13 days into November and this little project of thankfulness? I was just talking today with my friend Laura about how fast the fall has zoomed by. But, I guess, time flies when you’re having fun, right? Newest Website Launch And have I been…
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A Very Wordy Wednesday
I thought you all might be interested in this letter I mailed to Vice President Biden: Dear Vice President Biden,I was honored to meet you last Thanksgiving during your trip to Nantucket and thankful for your willingness to pose for a photograph with my daughter, Nora, and me. The picture made a wonderful edition to her baby…
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Marathon Webdesign
I posted on the Au Coeur Facebook page yesterday that I was working away on a web design project. That might have been an understatement. I might have gotten a little carried away and unable to stop, and in a little over a 24-hour time frame, I took the website for Papoose from plain-jane to…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: In lieu of some Etsy Love, this week I want to invite you to surf over to The Brotherhood of Thieves website…because I built it! Originally, their site looked like this: And now, it looks like this: It has large flash galleries with photos of the restaurant and delicious food, online forms for…
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Report Card
I feel sorry for my poor neglected blog, but it seems like it’s been one thing after another these past few weeks. And this last week was all about World Breastfeeding Week. I spent all my spare time before and after childcare planning and executing. It all started with, last Saturday, an informational table at the farmer’s…
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Facing Failure (and Moving Past It)
It’s been a while since I wrote about Papoose and my desire to support Nantucket families, so I thought I’d take a moment to update everyone on how it’s going: Through the generosity of friends and family, I received $2,715 to put towards opening the store. I am incredibly grateful for the support I received,…
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Satisfying My Inner Nerd
I did it…I finally said goodbye to wordpress.com and moved to a self-hosted site! Beginning today, all traffic to the old site should be redirected to my new domain, https://amberhinds.com. I’m really excited about this new site. Being self-hosted allowed me to better make use of my design abilities and to create a more visually…
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March!
We’ve already used up two days of March and I still can’t believe it. I know I say it all the time…but where did the time go? I’m always amazed at how short February is, the last full month of winter and now spring is just around the corner. We had (what I’m assuming to…
