Meaningful Conversations With Delicious Beverages
The boys got rolling tonight! After a quick chat about AJ drinking a beer that was a delicious assault on his senses, Brandon talks about his trip to a WNBA game and how cool it was for his daughter to see girls tearing it up. Finally, they started talking about trying to balance the business and community sides of what InkleDeux is all about.
The important thing through all of this is that we improve. These are are the business lessons I'm learning as I deconstruct what we built.
In the realm of business, my experience has been that business owners are inherently selfish. They only care about what makes them more money. I understand this, because the business is what pays them and that is how they buy food and pay rent. I get it. The issue is around engaging in a relationship with only the thought of what you can get out of it. That is not a relationship.
If we don't lay out how we are going to operate, then our inconsistencies will be accentuated when we hire staff.
This is a continuation of our interview with the ladies from Creating You. Today, we move the conversation over to Alison Furno. We follow her path through home schooling and college and into her becoming an entrepreneur. We discuss body image in social media and where she gets her confidence. We wrap up the conversation with discussing women and body image in social media with both Alison and Krista and get their interesting takes on the subject. I'm very thankful they were so open to discussing these topics. I know it can seem like all anyone cares about are women's bodies, but when you working in social media it is a top we just can't avoid. These ladies offered examples and practices to help us navigate that treacherous road.
As it pertains to coffee, our customer is someone who has been on the Starbucks bandwagon for a long time but just can't deal with it anymore. They know there is better coffee out there, but they don't want to spend their kids college fund to have it and are also put off by the knit-cap elitists.
Family members start businesses quite often, but you don't really hear about it succeeding. Or, if it did succeed, the familial relationship is often damaged.
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