Things are going moderately well…I’m on lesson 15/34 and hoping to open shop tomorrow. I wasn’t supposed to sleep in until 1047 🙈 but I did so here I am, trying to get through the day so I can do some more work tonight. I spent all of yesterday doing nothing but updating my MAC and working so I didn’t think it was healthy to work all of last night either. Today so far I familiarized myself with the Shopify draft of the products I’m offering in my store so it was time well spent. I’ve finalized my categories for the new drop whenever I open…Bohemian and the Halloween collection. I hesitate to offer Halloween because people would have to buy THIS weekend in order to get it on time, but I have to give it a shot after the cool pieces I found on AliExpress. I have no idea how this is going to go but I needed to do something for money because Color Street just isn’t cutting it these days. 😭 It takes 18-24 months for an e-commerce store to take off so I’m hoping that my marketing will be amazing and I can do better than that. 

My grocery pick up is complete and I’m on the road again! 

 It looks like I will be using my laptop daily from here on out, so I am changing my journal to a digital format. It's safer like this anyways, much more secure. 

My journey to find satisfaction and happiness in life again has turned a corner, with my accidental discovery today. I was about to get on YouTube to run Bella Art de Nicole videos when an ad popped up about E Commerce Businesses. I gave it a listen and found myself down the rabbit hole of research and discovered that what I was doing with Color Street for a while (selling on ebay) is actually a legitimate way of doing business called Dropshipping. In a nutshell, you set up your online store on Shopify, use Oberlo to manage your orders on AliExpress and market your business in whatever ways you can (FB and IG.) I've basically been doing this within the limitations of Color Street, and while I'm upset that I'm just now finding out about this, I am EXTREMELY grateful that this fell in my lap today because it's a clear sign that this is what I want to do. 

Now then, I have a solid business plan for everything I need, except I am not sure what I want to sell. My top 3 ideas are a jewelry shop, a children's toy shop and an adult sex toy store. I'm gravitating towards the sex toy shop because it would be a great business that would fit me, but part of me thinks that a children's toy shop would be best. Maybe I should do a poll :D but either way, marketing is going to be huge and I don't know yet which direction I need to go. I shall ask the Lord to direct me. 

Here's to business success.