Lessons learned & Looking forward
Creative Entrepreneurs share their perspective
Creative Entrepreneurs share their perspective
“Attitude is the difference between an Ordeal and an Adventure.”
The beginning of a new year gives us time to reflect on our experiences last year. 2020 might have been tough, but sometimes, when we go through the hardest experiences we learn the most! These amazing brands share the lessons they learned last year, and their hopes & dreams for this new year. May you be inspired and motivated to make your dreams come true this year too!
My personal outlook on life is to always look for the good in everything. The good in each person, the good part of each day, the good you achieved or strive for, the good part of your meal (usually desert in my case!) And especially in a year like this, it helps to really focus on the good no matter how big or small.
As I am sure for many of us in the creative industry (and everywhere else) it has been a very long and hard year. But instead of focusing on all the struggles of this past period, I will focus on the good I did manage to achieve. The biggest happy moment of the year I achieved in 2020 was the exciting expansion of the FynBosch brand.
To have faith in your own resilience. 2020 threw many of us more lemons than we knew what to do with, but as individuals and a brand we learnt to adapt. In the wake of the pandemic Kingdom of Wow! quickly adopted home production to safeguard our team and enable us to continue manufacturing. We learned, as many companies did across that globe, that this was both a doable and viable work model and offers more flexibility to our team and brand.
Nothing is impossible… Navigating Covid, lockdown and so much other obstacles gave me time to plan better and also get my processes simplified. It has put me in contact with fellow creatives that I would have otherwise not got to know and given me the last push to finally start my online business. The best way to start is just to start… You never know where your tiny dreams will lead.
Makes notes NOW (and throughout Q4) on all the collection development ideas that have popped into my mind and also things that are guided by what customers are looking for during this busy period, there’s no time for product development and design when there are so many fires to put out, but when the time comes after New Year to finalise the new collection, these notes will help guide me to make certain I’m fulfilling my customers needs as well as being inspired by my own ideas.
I think the perfect design comes from a culmination of things and fulfilling the customers need is a major one, maybe not as fun as coming up with a whole new design, but it’s so important to stay useful, I want to be the fixer of their problems, so if it’s a new size range or a different cuff design, it’s just as important as a new addition to the collection. – and without taking notes, all this just gets forgotten after New Year, no lie, I think it’s something about the manic brain that I get at this time of year which helps me be super productive, it also doesn’t retain the stream of consciousness that comes up with new product ideas!
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