Archive for the ‘Awareness’ Category

9 things to do NOW to financially prepare for future Entrepreneurship

Posted on October 27th, 2011 by by Evelyn

Share Entrepreneurship is risky, particularly from a financial perspective.  You can reduce some of this risk by following some friendly financial guidance. Had I followed all of my advice to a Tee (especially number 4) I probably …no I definitely would be experiencing less stress. Screw debt:  get rid of as much debt as possible [...]

Gentle Words of advice for emerging Indie Designers

Posted on August 5th, 2011 by by Evelyn

Share How many of us out here can sew or make jewelry? How many of us have received numerous compliments on our work and have decided we want to take a foray in starting our own lines and collections? I ask this question because as the creator and force behind DC Fashion Foundation’s Fashionably Business [...]

“Wannabe” Entrepreneurs- ruining chances…

Posted on April 27th, 2011 by by Evelyn

Share Before they even get started! We hear about “girls behaving badly” or even “dogs behaving badly”, but what about some of the wannabe entrepreneurs (W/E) out here who do the same?  Yes, I call them wannabes because no one who is truly serious about their business would be reckless enough to ruin the relationships [...]

Brick Walls….Or maybe I should have titled this post Si Yo Puede

Posted on March 10th, 2011 by by Evelyn

Share Lessons abound on an awakened path. Whether you are an entrepreneur, creative individual or some other type of “label”…these universal rules hold constant for all of us…especially this one: “what you put out is what you get back”. And what I put out created a cute little brick wall for myself. Long story short [...]

21 thoughts about being an “entrepreneur”

Posted on January 1st, 2011 by by Evelyn

Share Happy New Year! I thought long and hard about what I wanted to write in my first post of the New Year.  My new theme for 2011 is ” Stop Making Life Difficult & Do Something Different”.  To that end, I have decided to drop some “real talk”. I have been either teaching about, [...]

Master of the Mix DC- Viewing Party 12/1/2010

Posted on December 1st, 2010 by by Evelyn

Share Greetings Savvy Fashionistas!  Join me this evening at Bar 7 for the next installation of the Master of the Mix Viewing Parties.  The first three of my guests who find me at the event and say “EAB!” will get a special gift bag filled with wonderful goodies. Please RVSP Here. List closes at 4pm [...]

Groupon and LivingSocial- Worth It?

Posted on October 6th, 2010 by by Evelyn

Share Social Coupons:  Groupon and Living Social are really great tools to help promote your business, but please don’t think that you will generate a whole boat load of cash from your deal without having to deal with a whole new boatload of customers.  As a matter of fact, I suspected that these sites may [...]

Updates & All That Jazz

Posted on October 6th, 2010 by by Evelyn

Share Greetings Savvy Fashionistas! Long time no post.  Yep I know. Apologies but life and entrepreneurship gets in the way and as much as I would love to post more, it just has not been possible as of late. There is a lot of good stuff going on and I am working to try and [...]

Fiscally Fit Fashionista-has a new home!

Posted on August 5th, 2010 by by Evelyn

Share Greetings Folks! If you haven’t noticed, Fiscally Fit Fashionista has a new home. I took the leap, purchased the domain name http://fiscallyfitfashionista.com and had my wonderful webmistress Leslye (@leslyepj and http://reflectiondigital.com) migrate everything over. When I first started this blog almost three years ago, I did it because I had a message that I [...]

Long Time No Blog, plus look- I’m Hiring

Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by by Webmistress

Share Greetings good people! Yes, Yes, I know it has been a (long) while since I have posted any good fiscally fit information.  I really have no good excuse except that I just had to take a break. The burnout was real, and I needed to take a step back to (once again) reevaluate my [...]