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Meagan Nicole Photography

Posted by Kate Albers

· Wednesday, November 12th, 2014

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Today, friends, I am going to share about Meagan Nicole Photography. Meagan and I both graduated from the same high school. Meagan was always passionate about photography growing up. She always has a camera in her hand and a photo-op in mind. After graduating from high school in 2009, she was able to pursue her passion by doing a few internships and taking a few classes at a local community college. Meagan launched her business “Meagan Nicole Photography” in 2012. Meagan has a unique eye not just for photography but the knack she has for props and special scenery to enhance the photoshoot experience. There are many photographers back where I come from in Lancaster, PA. Instead of having a “competitive attitude” about these other photographers, Meagan has a beautiful vision that I wanted to share about her attitude about her business:

Meagans vision is to see all the various photographers band together, and create one bigger, more effective force – a team in a sense, and accomplish our passions + goals more effectively and give our customers a unique, unbeatable experience. We each have a different eye, and a fresh perspective. But we each have similar knowledge. Why not all come under one team, and fortify one another. Meagan’s vision as the “boss” is to empower and not control.

Meagan has a passion to live life to the fullest and to use her abilities to serve others and serve the Lord and leave an impact on this world. Meagan personally took my senior pictures in 2012. I highly recommend you take some time to browse over her lovely website. It is definitely worth your time.

http://www.meagannicole.com/

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Categories : Vintage

Sweaters Anonymous

Posted by Kate Albers

· Saturday, October 11th, 2014

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This is a really cool story about a young entrepreneur that I wanted to share with everybody. Sarah Gehman, a good friend who I grew up knowing in high school, and ALSO my roommate’s sister, began this business in 2012. Sarah is a missionary with the world’s biggest Christian mission organization, YWAM. Her job title is “Social media/marketing manager and photographer for the Ekballo Project. She is currently based out of the YWAM base is Kona, Hawaii. Sarah raises all her own money and one of the biggest things that she did to do this was through Sweaters Anonymous. It all began with her love of shopping at thrift stores. One day she realized that that she should try to turn this small obsession into something practical and decided that this could be a way to raise money for her YWAM trips. How this business works is that Sarah travels to various thrift stores and purchases used and sometimes new sweaters. Instead of regularly pricing the sweaters, she lists them on her website; http://sweatersanonymous.com/ and instead of pricing each sweater individually, she asks for a donation, so whatever a person is willing to give she will take. It is definitely a unique way to run a business. Sarah has been extremely successful, and she gives all of the credit to the Lord. Sarah quotes: “God is such a good God, and he doesn’t call us to do something that he won’t provide for”. To give an example of Sarah’s success, she has sold over 100 sweaters and has made 3,000 thousand dollars. Sarah has her own personal website, as well as a facebook page that she advertises these sweaters on. Check out Sarah’s Sweaters!

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, Fashion, Great Ideas, Vintage, Vintage Clothing

ModCloth

Posted by Olivia Ebert

· Friday, October 3rd, 2014

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Having recently joined Swing Club at college, my roommates and I have become interested in vintage clothing, because not much could make swing dancing more fun than having a vintage style skirt that flares out when you spin. While searching vintage clothing on the internet in our spare time away from our studies we came across a website called ModCloth.

As an entrepreneurship major, I found it interesting that the founders of ModCloth, Susan and Eric Koger, got their company up and running while in college. It all started with Susan’s hobby of collecting vintage clothing, a love that began in high school. With Eric’s help Susan’s passion grew into a business. In college, Susan and Eric began selling vintage clothing online to help pay for books. After graduation from college, they continued the company, adding new clothing from independent designers. With the continued growth of ModCloth, Susan and Eric now work with over 700 independent designers. Their inventory has grown significantly to include thousands of vintage inspired products from clothes to accessories to shoes and even home furnishings.

Susan and Eric’s ModCloth is a great example of the way in which a special hobby or interest can be turned into a profitable venture, creating great satisfaction for the entrepreneur and their customers. ModCloth not only creates value for their customers, but they help other entrepreneurs by working with independent designers in their own entrepreneurial adventures.

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Categories : Fashion, Vintage, Vintage Clothing

ModCloth: eCommerce at its best!

Posted by SmithMM1

· Friday, November 1st, 2013

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ModCloth is an online retailer that specializes in vintage , vintage-inspired and indie clothing, accessories and decor. ModCloth was started in Pittsburgh in 2002 by Susan Gregg-Koger and her then-boyfriend, now-husband, Eric Koger. Eric started a web development business in 2000 and used his knowledge to help Susan launch an eCommerce site for the amazing pre-worn vintage items she’d found at vintage sales. The company began in the Kogers’ college house basement at Carnegie Mellon where they employed a student part-time to help with packaging and shipping. It now has, however, 450 full-time employees across offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. It is one of the fastest-growing fashion and home eCommerce ventures to emerge in the past decade and the company did more than $100 million in sales last year.

ModCloth is extremely popular with fashion bloggers, vintage lovers, and online shoppers in general because there are up to 50 new products a day on the ModCloth website. That fresh content is essential to making browsing the ModCloth site a daily habit. Also, ModCloth’s Be the Buyer program allows customers to vote on which designs are created and sold by ModCloth. Combine all this with ModCloth’s great customer service and it’s no wonder that in 2010, ModCloth was named the #2 Fastest-Growing Private Company in America according to Inc. It was also named to Forbes 30 under 30 list for Technology in 2011 and for Art and Style in 2012. ModCloth also made No. 19 on the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies as well as No. 14 on the Most Innovative Social Media Companies list by Fast Company in 2013.

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Categories : College, Decor, eCommerce, Fashion, Jewelry, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Vintage, Vintage Clothing