A great week!

I’ve had a great week of learning!  First of all I have come up with an idea to apply what I am learning about business development from the E-Myth book to my personal life.  I knew the minute I read it last week that it was what I needed to use for my Mom role.  The problem that I’m having is that everyone relies on Mom to remember everything.  I have reminders going off on my phone multiple times per day and most of them don’t even apply to me.  They are just reminders for me to remind other family members to do something.  So my idea is to still remind them (because they are very important items, like taking medicine) but to also give them back some of the responsibility.  I am making up a family spreadsheet tomorrow.  It will have everyone’s name and their reminders for each day and a place to mark off that they have done the item.  This way the only thing I or my husband has to remind them to do is to check the spreadsheet.  I also have a way to make sure they have done what they need to do.  I’m very excited about this.  I am franchising myself! Ha!

I enjoyed learning about innovation, quantification and orchestration.  Quantification was the most intriguing to me because I think it is the area I have the most to learn about.  However, I am a numbers person so that could be why it intrigues me as well. I look forward to finding ways to apply these principles to my $100 challenge.

Speaking of my $100 challenge I am really excited about the progress I have made!  Originally I had planned to have an event here at my house today where people could taste and order and even have some product available for purchase.  However, it has been pouring down rain for the past three days and I ran out of time to prepare product.  But, the business must go on!  I posted this evening on my personal Facebook page and let my local friends know what I was selling and how much it was.  I had a last minute idea to offer delivery in my local town for an extra $2.50 per order.  This was a great application of up selling because I can profit at least $2 from that.  Within a few hours I had several orders which I can fill and deliver by Monday evening. 

I had one friend request for me to try making my cookies gluten free.  She said there are products available to replace the flour with a 1 to 1 ratio and she would pay more for the cookies.  I told her I was willing to try anything.  If these turn out well then I will have another product I can add to my business which will make me more competitive.  Such a great opportunity that fell into my lap!

With the orders I received just from today I anticipate a profit of $30.  Very exciting!

I also enjoyed the Purple Cow reading.  It reminded me of a restaurant that we used to go to in Fort Worth.  It had the same name, Purple Cow.  It was just a regular diner with regular diner food, but it served vanilla ice cream that was purple.  That’s it!  It tasted like vanilla, but it was purple.  They had delicious pies that they would serve ala mode with their purple ice cream and they also served shakes with their purple ice cream.  The kids loved going to this restaurant.  They found one way to makes themselves stand out and it worked!