Some of you may be new to ALL that is Kelly D. Rose, and some of you may have moseyed on over from seeing me out and about in the planner community. Either way, I’m super happy to have you over here hanging out with me being as extra as we possibly can be!
Note: Don’t get it twisted. The planner community is a real thing and it’s comparable to many other human hobbyist conglomerations.
How Did We Get Here?
Planning for me started out as a paper fetish. There was a lady love in my building that had the most beautiful Erin Condren planner I’d ever seen in my life. Ok, so at that point, it was the only Erin Condren planner I’d ever seen, but I was madly in love. She explained and introduced me to this paper fetish involving organization of time and incorporating pretty stickers and paper tape called washi. Not only did she do that, she actually BOUGHT me my first planner which was an Erin Condren Vertical Life Planner. Have you ever heard of a rabbit hole? I hadn’t, but I found one with my butt when I fell in.
Where did this rabbit lead? It led me into an online sticker buying fetish that allowed me to also fulfill my e-shopping addiction through various sites. I even launched a couple of small sticker stores myself! You couldn’t tell me I wasn’t a WHOLE sticker boss out here raking in $40-100 a month at my lowest and $4-500 a week at my highest. I thought I was doing something. With my husband being on the road for 10-19 days at a time and being a mom of four children in 4 different stages of life, I was still managing a little following on Instagram, a Facebook group and producing new items from my shop. If you’re subscribed to my blog you’ll be receiving some great freebies beginning next month.
Let me be the first to say, everybody and their mama and their cousin and their niece wants to have an online store, until its time to be a shop owner. When it’s time to set up shop, sites like Etsy make it super easy to get started and get yourself and your proposed product(s) out there for all to see. Then there’s the little “cha-ching” noise the Etsy app makes when you get a sale. It’s a slight high (adrenaline? dopamine? I don’t know, just stay with me) that I haven’t really shaken, and honestly, I miss hearing it.
There’s something that happens after that, and a lot of folks just ain’t ready for it. When it’s time to produce and deliver, sellers realize how much real WORK it requires to be a shop owner. No honey… This is not autonomous residual income. This isn’t money that’s just going to make itself and jump into your pocket. HA! It’s REAL work. It can be pretty lucrative with some high-speed hustle and a loyal team (notice I mentioned loyal…), but it’s not set up for the overnight success story, nor for the faint of heart.
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