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Sarah and Cody & “Blackbird & Violet”

Posted by fiscuseg21

· Monday, November 13th, 2023

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Sarah and Cody, two young women from Australia, started their company “Blackbird & Violet” in 2019 (full names and exact ages not available). Fueled by a passion for sculpting things out of polymer clay, Sarah and Cody wanted to start a business that would provide the necessary tools and materials for this hobby. According to their website, they love “creating colourful & cheerful things” out of polymer clay and want to “help others create those things too.” At first, the focus of the company was on clay shape cutters. One big issue that Sarah and Cody recognized was that clay shape cutters were primarily sold in large sets of sizes. They thought it would be much more convenient if the cutters were sold individually.

So, Sarah and Cody set out to start a business called “Blackbird & Voilet,” where they could sell clay cutters individually in a variety of shapes and colors. All of their cutters are designed and made in-house. Since then, Sarah and Cody have been expanding their company further and further. A year after its founding in 2019, B&V expanded to sell all sorts of supplies related to polymer clay sculpting. Today, Blackbird & Violet sells shape cutters, silicone molds, texture tools, extruders, cutting tools, texture tools, clay packs, earring backs, earring displays, and more–all aimed toward the polymer clay hobby. The company even offers holiday themed products and takes custom orders for shape cutters.

Because Blackbird & Violet is an online business, Sarah and Cody have spent a lot of time optimizing the website. It is colorful, robust, and easy to navigate–even for new users. The product pictures are fun, colorful, and pleasing, which encourages customers to explore the website even further. The B&V website utilizes design in its entrepreneurial efforts to appeal to its audience (people passionate about polymer clay as a hobby) and increase traffic.

Sarah and Cody’s business not only displays how design can be used in entrepreneurship, but also how an idea for a company can be found within our own passions. They noticed something missing in the polymer clay market and figured out how to meet the need effectively.

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Categories : Art, Clay, Crafts, Tools/supplies

Jungmin Kang & “Snoopslimes”

Posted by fiscuseg21

· Saturday, October 7th, 2023

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Jungmin Kang was just 13 years old when she started her slime business in 2017. She became familiar with ‘slime’ through social media, as she enjoyed watching ASMR slime videos. Soon, she started her own e-commerce slime business using her allowance money. She launched her own social media and website for ‘Snoopslimes,’ selling various different types of slimes.

Kang’s business started small, but it has now grown larger than she could have ever imagined. Her social media following has now reached over 6 million, and she has sold over 1 million slimes total. To grow her business, she consistently posted high-quality videos of her slime products on Instagram and TikTok. Many of these videos went viral, which helped to spread the word about her company. In just over a year of posting on her social media, Kang had gained over 1 million followers.

Kang explains on her website that her product is a “therapeutic sensory toy” that provides a “creative outlet” for customers. Snoopslimes serves a wide array of customers, from young children who use slime as a fun toy to adults who use slime for “stress relief.”

Kang has found interesting ways to innovate in the slime market. She uses a “drop-based” business model, meaning that she launches a new supply of slimes every week at the same time. Some of the slimes stay the same every week, and others are brand-new or seasonal. Many of her slimes are carefully curated to coincide with current trends, events, or media. This business model creates more interest and demand; she can be more creative in the slimes she launches each week and many of the slimes sell out quickly after the drop time.

Kang also offers ‘slime subscription box’ plans for dedicated customers. The Snoopslime website also has a ‘Slime 101’ page for slime information and care, as well as a ‘Slime Lookbook’ page where visitors can see slimes from previous drops.

Kang is an inspiring example of a young entrepreneur who found an extremely niche interest and used her creativity to satisfy a need in the market.

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Categories : Art, entertainment, Experience, Slime

Raelynn Heath-Rae’s Materials

Posted by Sean8Mahoney

· Sunday, December 4th, 2022

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Raelynn Heath is a young girl who started her own business making and designing jewelry. she started making jewelry when she was just 4 years old.

Young Raelynn started making her first jewelry with plastic beads and acrylic. as she got older, she continued to create new things like jewelry out of clay and recycled pieces of soda cans and chip bags, and even her old clothes she grew out of. With her mother’s assistance, she would give donate to members of her community to those specifically lost loved ones. she plans to expand into clothing design as well.

From Raelynn’s amazing product and mission, she made it onto the 1 Million Cups to spread awareness of her product and to explain her story. 1 Million Cups is a Weekly education program that gives experiential learning opportunities to entrepreneurs of today’s world.

I find young Raelynn’s so unique with her recycled jewelry and I’m behind impressed that she made such a popular project at such a young age. I think her story is motivation to us all to commit to our ideas and make them come true.

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Categories : Art, Business::Entrepreneurs, Charity, Clothing, Construction, Design

Destiny Snow

Posted by joedeluca21

· Wednesday, October 26th, 2022

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Destiny Snow is a very successful young entrepreneur who owns the business called SnowGlam collection. This is an online company that sells beauty products to women. One thing that stood out to me was how she handled the COVID situation regarding her business. Constantly being stuck at home made her realize that she needed to focus on growing her company. She did this by the help of a social media influencer named Ari Fletcher. She tagged her on her Instagram story, and Destiny instantly saw how big of an impact that had on her business. She said her phone started blowing up with orders as soon as Ari posted on her story and that was the spark her business needed. I thought this was a very clever of way of getting exposure. It was pretty much genius as it immediately reached her target marker which are primarily teenage girls who love to shop. Another thing that I found really impressive was the number of sales she had for her online business. It was an astounding amount of over one million dollars over the course of two years. If Destiny keeps working the way she is and utilizing social media, I think she still has more room for growth and expansion. The most inspiring part of this story was how she used COVID to help strive her business to where she is at today. Instead of letting the pandemic hold her business back, she optimized this as an opportunity to really focus on social media as her main way of connecting to her customers.

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Categories : Art, Celebrities, Clothing, Design, Influencer, Instagram, Social Entrepreneur, Women Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneur

How Any Hobby Can Become a Multi-Million Dollar Business

Posted by baginskiIG21

· Tuesday, October 18th, 2022

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Now it’s fairly common for young people going into the world to be full of passions and interests, hobbies like art, music, and design, but what kids don’t realize is that these passions can become successful business ventures with the right tools and motivation. For young entrepreneur Bella Weems, her passion for design and jewelry became a multi-million dollar business. Weems founded Origami Owl. Origami Owls’ biggest hit product “Living Locket” features a locket with interchangeable charms which can be collected or given as gifts. Weems also started “Owlettes Initiative” which focuses on connecting with young kids who wish to become young entrepreneurs. She shares her success story along with tips to build a business and thus gives back to her community.

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Categories : Art

Tiktok Becomes an Entrepreneurs Free Advertising

Posted by baginskiIG21

· Tuesday, October 18th, 2022

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Tiktok has taken over social media since 2020 when the Pandemic started, and while many young entrepreneurs were struggling to get their businesses out there, Tiktok came to the rescue by providing practically free advertising to the young businesses. For “All things Lilly Ann” Tiktok aided her in promoting her new business. Lilly Ann works to bring positivity to her community through her typography business where she designs sweatshirts, chalkboards, planners, and stickers all featuring hand-drawn quotes. All this young entrepreneur took was a new innovative idea and some social media exposure to build a beautiful small business.

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Categories : Art

Nicole Dutra: Dutraville

Posted by PelletierHG22

· Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

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In Ellicott City, MD, Nicole Dutra found a passion for hand dying clothes and fabrics. After years of experimentation with different methods of tie dying, she found ice dying her favorite. A couple more years later, she decided to sell her work and create a business out of it. She named her business Dutraville, and creates all of her pieces from home. She sells her work both from Instagram and Etsy, but she also does custom orders. Nicole provides excellent customer service with both quick shipping and, if you’re in the area, she will even drive it to you. She even will give you a personal tour of her studio and explain the process behind ice dying, show you all of her dyes, and even let you help her get a project started! She sells everything from tote bags to hoodies to Turkish towels, and she provides a discount if you want her to dye an article of clothing (or other cotton piece) that you already have. Her business is still growing, but it is definitely already worth her time. Nicole has had stands at many small business fairs, most commonly being outside Su Casa on Main Street in Old Ellicott City one Saturday of every month. She has even had the opportunity to partner with other small business owners and combine their products and skills! Dutraville is one of my favorite small businesses to support.

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, Art, Clothing, Creating, Design, Fashion, Handmade

Lirika Matoshi

Posted by brakmg22

· Friday, September 30th, 2022

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Most people who have Tiktok or any form of social media remember “The Strawberry Dress” that took the internet by storm in 2020. It almost seems strange how such a fanciful dress became so sought after and coveted in a time where no one was going out and wearing beautiful clothes. Despite the hardships that quarantine brought, this fairly expensive dress became the best-selling item in Lirika Matoshi’s collection. Women who were software engineers, stay-at-home mothers, nurses, young teenage girls in high school all agreed that the dress was absolutely beautiful, bringing to mind the Tiktok concept “cottage-core,” more easily defined as rural bliss (which was how Vogue described it). “Most of my designs are inspired by my childhood. I feel like the things that make me feel better are the strawberries, the dress, the gowns, nature in general,” Matoshi said about the nostalgic feel the dress evoked. This dress was not practical by any means and there were very few places to which people could wear it in which the dress would make sense…but that didn’t stop the mass excitement over this gorgeous “princess” dress.

Lirika Matoshi, originally from Kosova, is only 26 years old. A self-taught designer without any formal fashion school training, she learned to make everything she has from her sister, designer Teuta Matoshi. She began with making accessories when she was only 20 and made the courageous leap of moving to New York. Since then, she has only expanded her line of accessories and clothes. In 2020, her business took off with the Strawberry Dress. Now, she outfits numerous influencers and celebrities and her label has a following of almost one million. With her significant platform and accomplishments, she has been added to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. The emergence of social media has been able to push designers and artists to become huge names among influencers who have so much sway over young consumers. As a self-taught artist myself, I’m glad to see that the possibilities truly are endless and the algorithms of social media platforms may be the answer to success. Anyone can put themselves out there. All it takes is one post, one dress for something to take off.

Vogue article: https://www.vogue.com/article/strawberry-dress-lirika-matoshi-popular

Lirika Matoshi’s Strawberry Dress: https://lirikamatoshi.com/products/strawberry-midi-dress

Lirika Matoshi’s website: https://lirikamatoshi.com/

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, Art, Design, Entrepreneurship, Fashion, Uncategorized

All Things Lilly Ann

Posted by turnbaughga19

· Monday, September 26th, 2022

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Who would have thought that taking fancy notes could lead to a successful business venture?

For Lilly Ann Cepull, this became a reality with the development of her business All Things Lilly Ann back in 2018.

Lilly realized at a young age that she was fascinated by fonts and lettering. By the time she reached high school, she realized that other people were noticing her knack for hand-lettering. Girls in her classes noticed her fancy notes and began asking her for a doodle or a hand-lettered quote to hang in their rooms. Eventually, Lilly discovered she could make a business out of this and soon enough, she was hand-lettering chalkboards for weddings, teaching classes on lettering, painting clothing, and much more.

In 2018, Lilly took a leap of faith and decided to pursue her dream of having her own business. She began printing her art on stickers and prints–focusing on a theme of positivity throughout all of her art. The shop began to grow, and Lilly expanded by selling sweatshirts, tee shirts, socks, journals, to-do lists, and more.

All Things Lilly Ann continues to grow. Her Instagram (@instagram.com/allthingslillyann) now has over 121,000 followers. She runs the business out of North Carolina with her high-school sweetheart, Devin, who runs the business full-time with Lilly. Lilly states on her website, “Our day to day work varies so much (which is part of why we love being entrepreneurs)…”

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, Art, Design

Bella Weems: Origami Owl

Posted by campagnama21

· Saturday, November 13th, 2021

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Bella Weems is a 28-year-old who is the founder of the jewelry company Origami Owl. At just 14 years old, she turned her passion into a business after her parents told her she would have to earn her first car. Her passion for handcrafting jewelry turned into a multi-million-dollar business. See the source image

Origami Owls main product is called the “Living Locket” which is a locket which you can add in your own, personalized charms to. This is unique because each charm can represent the persons hobbies and interests and showcase them when they wear the necklace. Bella also sells bracelets, earrings, and other accessories.

Bella is a busy kid entrepreneur, but she still allots time to give back. She started the “Owlettes Initiative” in which she personally mentors young aspiring entrepreneurs ages 12-17. Bella shares tips with these kids and any advice from her success story. I think this part of her business is truly inspiring because she found a way to help others as well as keep up a successful business.

Bella says the best part of being a kid entrepreneur is, “…being able to encourage kids of all ages to not be afraid to reach for their dreams and never let anyone tell them they’re not good enough or their idea isn’t good enough.” Bella’s business Origami Owl not only lets people express themselves through their jewelry but inspires young entrepreneurs to take the risk to start making something they are passionate about become big.

11 Successful Kid Entrepreneurs Keeping Their Eyes on the Prize

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Categories : Art, Beauty, Business::Entrepreneurs, Creating, Design, Entrepreneurship, Fashion, Jewelry, Jewelry, Mentorship, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Startups, Uncategorized, Women Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneur

Tags : creativity, Jewelry, mentorship, origami owl