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"  Have a clear vision of what your business is before you get started, and love what you are doing: Decide what it is exactly that you want to do and be specific. If your ideas are all over the board, you&amp;#039;ll have a hard time embracing what you&amp;#039;re doing and actually getting anything done. Most important, choose something you&amp;#039;re passionate about. If you&amp;#039;re not excited about the work you&amp;#039;re doing, you&amp;#039;ll have a hard time succeeding.   Be original:  Make sure your idea is unique and not a model of someone else&amp;#039;s business. It&amp;#039;s wonderful to be inspired by others, but should never duplicate another&amp;#039;s work. Fresh ideas are what get noticed.   Expect more work than you could ever imagine:  We&amp;#039;ve spent countless hours hatching plans, creating designs, making contacts, and researching. More time than we could have ever imagined. In the beginning, we didn&amp;#039;t expect to be paid for our time in terms of payment for hours spent working; rather, we considered our hours worked as an investment in our business.   No experience necessary:  We&amp;#039;re both stay-at-home moms, and had no experience as entrepreneurs. We made a decision to start out very small and grow our business as we could, never sacrificing good quality for the sake of becoming bigger. We knew if we stuck with it, the business would grow as it should, along with our knowledge base.   Don&amp;#039;t give up:  If you have a solid idea that you love, stick with it. Being successful takes an incredible amount of patience and persistence.  Be polite:  It sounds silly, but it&amp;#039;s true. Don&amp;#039;t forget to say thank you. We&amp;#039;ve had a lot of good fortune in our business and are always sure to thank anyone who has helped us along the way. Whether it&amp;#039;s cinnamon rolls we bake for our printer who got a last-minute job completed, pies we give to our show vendors, or a phone call to an editor, our business wouldn&amp;#039;t be the same without them and we recognize that.   Keep a good balance:  Following our dreams has been an amazing journey for us, but we&amp;#039;ve never let it consume us. For us, family always comes first. We stay grounded by the love and support we have from our families. None of our work would be meaningful for us if we didn&amp;#039;t have them to share our success with. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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