I had a GREAT meeting with a friend who runs her own PR company last night to talk about the dog tees. She's amazing. Obviously really really good at what she does. Right off the bat, as soon as I told her about the conept and the look she had a million great ideas about how to promote and the tees and me : ) This is exactly what I need, someone who can think along these lines for me. One of the scariest things about trying to start my own business is feeling like I have to wear all these different hats - designer, writer, business person, accountant, marketing and PR person. It's nice to know that I can tap into the knowledge of someone else. It's also nice to know that there are all these people out there who are willing to help me, friends offering their dogs for models, my boyfriend taking the time to design my site, and now this friend offering to help me with the PR side of things.
It also reaffirms my commitment to this project to talk to others about it and seek out their involvement and help. One of the questions the PR friend asked me was, "When you work on this project, does it feel like a chore or does it feel like play?" And the answer was obvious, it totally feels like play. I'm engaging all my creative resources and that innate desire to "make something."
Did some hot yoga this morning. Holy crap. It was great. Sometimes frustrating to not be able to do everything that I wanted to do as well as I wanted to do it. But there was a huge sense of accomplishment in completing it and knowing that you'll go back and you'll get better and better. I went with a friend who agreed to get up at the crack of dawn with me to do this before work and there was something really nice about that too. Instead of the usual - get together for a glass of wine (or 4) and bitch about what's going wrong at work, etc. we were sharing this really positive experience. Even though you don't talk during it, there's something about sharing this experience that I really liked...
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