tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37701488644561535112024-02-19T01:06:05.209-05:00Designher BrandsAuthor, aesthetic wordsmith and branding therapist specializing in women owned small businesses.Melissa Boltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08049497714374749591noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770148864456153511.post-10022410146944591022012-10-14T14:47:00.001-04:002012-10-14T14:48:11.746-04:00a new home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Looking for me?<br />
I'm still around, I recently changed my business name to my own. I toyed with the idea for a long time and finally decided to take the leap. As a personal branding gal, I felt I wasn't bing true to me by not being me through & through. And so it was done.<br />
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You can visit me now on the website http://melissabolton.com<br />
& my new blog http://melissabolton.blogspot.com<br />
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See you on the other side! xo<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today's the day.</div><div style="text-align: center;">A new day, a new week.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Stop reading about it. Stop journaling about it. Stop dreaming about it.<br />
Do it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">No one can make it happen but you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Inaction breeds doubt and fear.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Action breeds confidence and courage. </div><div style="text-align: center;">If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Go out and get busy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I heart teachers and have so much respect for what they do. I always try to send in something a little extra special for them at the end of the year. Thanks to the magic that is <a href="http://pinterest.com/melissabolton" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, I was able to create some pretty easy & super adorable chalkboard pendants that really work! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We HAD to add a piece of chalk to the packaging!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The kids celebrated by jumping in the pool with their clothes on as soon as they got off the bus. Tons of fun stuff planned this summer! What are YOU doing this summer?</span><br />
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To be so strong that nothing<br />
can disturb your peace of mind.<br />
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To talk health, happiness, and prosperity<br />
to every person you meet.<br />
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To make all your friends feel<br />
that there is something in them<br />
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To look at the sunny side of everything<br />
and make your optimism come true.<br />
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To think only the best, to work only for the best,<br />
and to expect only the best.<br />
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To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others<br />
as you are about your own.<br />
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To forget the mistakes of the past<br />
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.<br />
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To wear a cheerful countenance at all times<br />
and give every living creature you meet a smile.<br />
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To give so much time to the improvement of yourself<br />
that you have no time to criticize others.<br />
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To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,<br />
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.<br />
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To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,<br />
not in loud words but great deeds.<br />
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To live in faith that the whole world is on your side<br />
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.<br />
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-Christian D. LarsonMelissa Boltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08049497714374749591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770148864456153511.post-23652321958914597162012-06-13T15:46:00.003-04:002012-06-13T17:27:12.077-04:00When Should You Post It?<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdesignherbrands.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F06%2Fwhen-should-you-post-it.html&media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rakacreative.com%2Fstudio%2Fnews%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F06%2FBest_Time_To_Post.jpg&description=The%20BEST%20time%20to%20post%20on%20Facebook%20%26%20Twitter%20for%20click-throughs.%20Social%20media%20infographic." class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal"><img border="0" src="//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" title="Pin It" /></a><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">LOOK around. What do you want to be doing? Who are you doing it for? Is it for you? For your bank account? Are you doing it because it's what you think you're supposed to be doing? </div><div style="text-align: left;">{Hint: wrong answer.} </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">It's <strike>okay</strike> imperative to LISTEN to the small voice in your head. That's your calling that's calling you. What's it asking you to do? Are you ignoring it or listening? Listen. Really HEAR it. </div><div style="text-align: left;">FEEL it. SMELL it. TASTE it. Now pair it with your natural talents and gifts. And there it is. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Once you've got that down, try it with your market. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">What's your niche? In other words, who are you serving? </div><div style="text-align: left;">Again, look hard...beyond the surface. LISTEN intently...really hear what they're looking for. FEEL them out. What is it they are seeking? Can you give it to them? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Don't try to flex your style beyond your given niche to serve a customer who lies outside the fringes of your offerings, lest you spread yourself too thin for the niche market you've so painstakingly defined. Don't sell yourself out to snatch a quick sale. You're in this for the relationships. Send them elsewhere. It's okay. They'll appreciate it and will likely be back. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Don't try to sell, strive to provide and find success- on your terms. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Gather ye senses and use them as they were intended. Embark on a discovery journey. Just be sure to bring your {open} mind and deductive reasoning skills along for the ride. Honesty, non-negotiable. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Above all else, it's your thinking that determines your success.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Change the way you think</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">& you'll change your results.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>When people believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. ~Norman Vincent Peale</i></b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Your worth is not measured by the number of Facebook fans or blog followers you have, your weekly sales numbers or by the weight of your wallet. Sure, all those other ancillary factors are great confidence boosters but if you really know who you are then you don't need them. How many of your fans or followers are buying? How many notice when you don't write for awhile? Collecting minions is not where it's at. Building relationships is. So how do you do that? </div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Know yourself, determine what you're worth, sing it from the rooftops and watch your niche come to you. Being 'inspired' by or otherwise borrowing from a seemingly successful person does far more harm than good.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Comparison is the thief of joy.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">There's only one person who can determine your value and that's you. Because the value is in the you. Not in the them. It works for them because that's them, not you. If you continue to try to live up to the ideals set forth by another, you will fail again and again and eventually quit when you feel that you can't keep up. It isn't about keeping up. It never was. It's about blazing your own path. Leading, not following. Are you going to trip along the way? Probably. Will people give you a hard time or doubt you? Good chance. When you're comfortable with yourself you'll go from absorbing their blows to being completely oblivious to them. Trust me, it'll happen and when it does, you'll know you've arrived.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. -Thich Nhat Hanh</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">As a brand story teller I can help you define your story and condense it into a readable and authentic manifesto, but to get there you've got to do the leg work. Get to know yourself. Because if you don't know yourself you can never truly know what you've got to offer to the world. If you don't know then they sure don't know. Staying in the corner does no one any good. Self esteem sells. You don't have to go all Charlie Sheen on us, though. Confidence does not equal cocky. So many of us are afraid of coming off as show-offy or as braggarts. When you're proud of who you are, it shows. People want to be a part of that. Getting sales is great. Building relationships is better. Gather true fans and form lasting relationships and success on every level belongs to you. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in. -Jane Roberts</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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from <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/video/223506?cm_mmc=Newsletter-_-Starting%20a%20Business-_-May%2014,%202012-_-How%20to%20Deal%20With%20Copycats">Entrepreneur magazine</a>Melissa Boltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08049497714374749591noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770148864456153511.post-23780893089817465682012-05-12T15:51:00.001-04:002012-05-12T15:52:23.293-04:00A Mother's Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_EaPoDLu7_b32guQcPA7OKoAeReCZolIcQhhEriiPg30aahQ70hDBDJrQV6vpbNkEde_DAD9ERSnNH3eiCC7b-Jo25SQJmWoBqjFEUsZlqOL19QFdR99qFc3e6l16V-Id7gJbiFfmzF7r/s1600/sodus+117a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_EaPoDLu7_b32guQcPA7OKoAeReCZolIcQhhEriiPg30aahQ70hDBDJrQV6vpbNkEde_DAD9ERSnNH3eiCC7b-Jo25SQJmWoBqjFEUsZlqOL19QFdR99qFc3e6l16V-Id7gJbiFfmzF7r/s320/sodus+117a.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">"You don't love me!"</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">How many times have your kids laid that one on you? And how many times have you, as a parent, resisted the urge to tell them how much? Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to insist you buy a bike with your own money, which we could afford, and you couldn't.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your hand picked friend was a creep.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your bedroom, a job that would have taken me 15 minutes.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to say, "Yes, you can go to Disney World on Mother's Day."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, disgust, and tears in my eyes.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough not to make excuses for your lack of respect or your bad manners.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to admit that I was wrong and ask for your forgiveness.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to ignore "what every other mother" did or said.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to let you stumble, fall, hurt, and fail.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your own actions, at 6, 10, or 16.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to figure you would lie about the party being chaperoned, but forgave you for it...after discovering I was right.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to shove you off my lap, let go of your hand, be mute to your pleas and insensitive to your demands...so that you learned to stand alone.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, and not what I wanted you to be.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">But most of all, I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Mother's Day is fast approaching, if you haven't noticed, and with it, the attendant demands for your wallet. Breakfast foods -- toast waiting to be burned and eggs ready for scrambling -- feature prominently in grocery circulars, and soon restaurants will report an uptick in reservations for Sunday brunch. Well, la de da.<br />
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Why would I mock a day set aside to celebrate my accomplishments? Because, honey, a single, solitary day ain't enough payback.<br />
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Yes, time in the trenches has made me a crotchety mama. Skeptical, picky and opinionated, too. So I'm grabbing this space to tell the children what, in my heart of hearts, I consider true reward for the maddening, humbling experience called parenting.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">For Mother's Day, what I really want, what I "deserve" after all those sleepless nights and countless teachers' meetings, after all those Saturday morning baseball games and after-school fundraisers, after all those middle-of-the-night emergency room visits and boo-boos cured with kisses, after all those arguments over cars and curfew, all those pep talks and prescient warnings, is simple: Your life well-lived.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I want you to be honest and good, conscientious and compassionate. Hardworking would be a plus, and while we're at it, let me throw in other essentials you should have:</div><div style="text-align: left;">a love of God, an appreciation for family and a generosity of spirit.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">That's a solid start, but I've earned so much more. So in good times, I want to hear you count your blessings and watch you share your bounty. When it's time for your celebratory two-step, I expect a front-row seat at the party. (No limelight for me, though. We mothers pull strings surreptitiously.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">During difficult times, of which I know there will be plenty, I hope you display your mettle and your grace, a resiliency learned at my side the hard way. I expect nothing less than quiet strength and dry humor.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">So come Mother's Day, forget the flowers. Drain the mimosas. And, for Pete's sake, don't bother with a schmaltzy card that you rushed to buy on your way over. Live as I raised you. In this way, you honor me every day.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Easter morning brought baskets full of Godiva chocolate. {The bunny knows mama doesn't mess around when it comes to her candy!} The chocolate was not the Godiva I knew. I suspected perhaps there were some handling issues {likely outside of the company's control} at play here. So I phoned the company. I let them know that I had received some less-than-Godivaey candy. I supplied him with the numbers, dates etc... The representative was pleasant and issued an apology that felt sincere and not at all canned. I felt that I did the right thing in giving them the chance to track down the handling issue and I got an apology. It likely was not even their fault, but they apologized. I felt valued and like I had done the right thing. To my surprise, a beautiful box of Godiva chocolate landed on my door in an ice packed cooler sent via overnight mail the next day. And it was perfect.</div>
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I submitted some of my drawings to be considered for rubber stamp designs to Plaid Crafts a few years ago. I received a personal thank you note to let me know they had arrived and were being reviewed. A couple of weeks later I received a package in the mail with a politely worded rejection letter. They said that my stamp had made it to the final round of reviews but was too close in style to another line they planned to launch later that season and that they would be unable to produce it for that reason. Disappointed? Sure! But I understood, of course. Inside the package was a huge set of all of the colors of their beautiful paint that you could imagine and a note tucked inside that read: 'keep creating'. To this day I will never forget the way their brand made me feel. And now, when I think of craft supplies I think of Plaid. I recommend them to people. I sing their praises. And all because of an excellent experience I had with their brand. It probably cost them $40 (their cost) and I can guarantee they have made their money back multiple times over between my purchases and the purchases of those I have referred to them. Win. Win.</div>
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(The drawing at the top is the design I had submitted. <a href="http://www.adoredbefore.com/catalog.php?item=131&catid=123&ret=catalog.php%3Fcategory%3D123" target="_blank">It's now being sold as greeting cards instead</a>!)</div>
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'The customer is always right' does not mean that the customer is always right. Even the customer knows this. It means that make things right with the customer if you value them and their business. Are there times when you'll be annoyed to have to take a return? Yup. Do some customers try to take advantage of your kindness? Some do, yes. Are you going to take things personally? I'd be worried if you didn't.</div>
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No matter what business I have ever been in, I have welcomed questions and complaints. Often times a complaint is an easily-diffused misunderstanding that you can both chuckle about later. Sometimes it's not. But in either case, it's when there is an issue and the customer does not complain, that I worry. Because chances are...they're complaining. Just not to me, but to others. And that's not the message I want out there. And neither do you!</div>
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