inspirational people

I was just wondering what I was going to blog about and I started thinking about how I got to where I am now business wise. Well I had a very unexpected gap in my work life and I got to thinking what was I going to do…and while trailing the internet for jobs /ideas I decided I no longer wanted to work for anyone else but myself.

so long story short I put together all the things I liked or enjoyed, I liked shopping, clothes shopping, not for myself though my children and ever since that horrid recession (p.s I still don’t believe we are out of the recession as we are all lead to believe but that’s another blog maybe ;-) ) and shops were closing down left right and centre I felt and still do feel there is a gap in the market for children’s fashion focused clothing.

So I spent a long time researching and trying new suppliers but I needed some customers so there I hit another brick wall. Well isn’t Facebook fantastic I bought some stock, took pictures, uploaded and made sales whoopee. But it was a lot of running around, if only I could get my customers in one place at the same time, light bulb moment children’s clothing party plans so I did some more research worked out what I could offer. Which was 10% commission of all orders place and paid for on the night delivery in a week giving me plenty time to complete orders.

Then came the logo designed by another inspirational lady Amy Purdie of white acres design www.whiteacresdesign.co.uk highly recommend and kbjust4kids was born. at the same time I realized I was missing out on other sales from potential customers who didn’t want to host clothing party’s but did want to buy clothing so another light bulb moment I need a website which was designed by fluid web development www.fluidwebdevelopment.com  a great..... Man called Keith Whalen he is a very intelligent patient genius who listened to what I wanted and helped me to create www.kbjust4kids.co.uk  p.s he did all the work I supplied the content like I said he was patient.

While I was writing this I decided I wanted to know where party plans came from?! I remember when I was younger my mam held women’s clothing party plans and she often went to Tupper wear party’s needless to say my mam has a lot of Tupper ware. There was also lingerie parties and a very popular ongoing party plan Anne summers. But I delved a bit deeper and came across the history of Tupper wear and was truly amazed by what I found out.

So here is a bit of History about party plans it originated in 1950 by an amazing lady called Brownie Wise, she discovered Tupperware and found it to be a product of great use and so she began selling it at parties she went on to create a social networking marketing system through dealers and sellers that quickly outsold Tupper wears store sales which then caught the eye of Mr Tupper wear himself (earl Tupper the inventor) who invited her to become vice president of Tupper ware home parties she did this all in a year  she was an incredible woman who was even the first women to appear on the cover of business week (which is a weekly magazine which was created to provide information and interpretation about what was happening in the business world) how amazing is it to think that even in 1950 there was a women entrepreneur and let’s face it in an era where women’s roles where at home she helped give hope and independence to thousands of other likeminded women. If you happen to get the chance please look her up she is a truly inspirational lady. her story is getting made into a movie hopefully this year I will definitely be watching it as her story ended quiet sad and I do believe if she had been born just 30 years later how different things could have been.