Paperwork….ugh

15 Oct

There’s so much that goes into opening a business. When I wrote my business plan, I realized it. Just to launch this boutique alone I’ll need to….

  • Obtain merchandise, obviously.
  • Find a photographer who will take decent pictures of that merchandise.
  • Secure an ecommerce site.
  • Design the ecommerce site (which I will be doing on my own)
  • Get packing and shipping together.
  • Do invoices, which involves math. Yippie.
  • Create an advertising campaign.
  • Fill out paperwork to start a business.

I’m sure I’m forgetting something. It’s not even that these are so many different things, it’s just that they are so many things that are so different.

That last step is what I started yesterday and will finish tomorrow. I have a DBA and now I have to get a resale license, business license and something else since I’m running my business out of my home. They really gave me the runaround; I went to fill out forms for one thing and they told me I had to fill out forms for something else and have processed before I could have the original form processed, plus file another form and whoops….I filled out the wrong form.

No but seriously, so far I actually am enjoying even the most unglamorous thing having to do with this project.

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4 Responses to “Paperwork….ugh”

  1. Sunita Lasdow 28. Apr, 2008 at 4:56 pm #

    Hi Kim

    What accounting software is best for a boutique to use? I’ve heard good and bad about Quickbooks – but I’ve also heard that there are some retail specific software packages that may be better.

  2. Kim 28. Apr, 2008 at 7:35 pm #

    Hi Sunita, Im not actually using any software just yet for my accounting. But I used to work for a book keeper and I used Quickbooks. Its pretty straight forward so I would definitely recommend that!

  3. Christina 14. Feb, 2011 at 5:19 am #

    Hi Kim,

    Besides the use of social media and blogs, what kind of advertising campaign did you do to launch your site and create awareness?

  4. Kim 22. Feb, 2011 at 4:32 am #

    None that I would recommend. Advertising campaigns don’t bring in sales — like you said, they raise awareness, but when you’re an independent boutique, you cant afford to spend $30k per month for brand recognition. I did a lot of SEO, external and internal, as well as PR, and that’s where sales came from (mainly the former).

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