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Donna Maria's Handmade Beauty Connection
June 9, 2003

A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 4, Issue 23
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1. HBN Update: Welcome Renewing HBN Members!
2. Create The Life You Love Summer 2003 Small & Home-Based Business Success Series!!
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: The Softest Hands
4. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: win a 1/2 hour legal and business consultation for your business!
5. Create the Life You Love™: The Five Business Personality Types,
Part I

Missouri Soap and Bath | Debra Hendron | Missouri
renewing member; supplier of handmade CP soap bases with all natural ingredients in grated form for creating liquid or hand-milled soaps, or adding to M&P

Fairies Kiss | Kathleen Vosburgh | Washington
renewing member; cold process soaps, herbal, milk, Ayurvedic and specialty soaps, skin care and bath products -- (you've gotta try their Rice Soap!!)

Learn more about our members and their exciting activities by visiting their Web sites through HBN's Online Member Directory, now with 4 ways to search: (1) by state/country; (2) by member business name; (3) by keyword search; or (4) using our new alphabetical listings.

Create The Life You Love™ at dM's 2003 Summer Small & Home-Based Business Success Series, Washington, DC

Three high energy mid-week networking luncheons to help your business reach its maximum potential! Choose one or two, or come to all 3 and enjoy a discount!

1. Branding Your Business: How To Maximize A Key Competitive Advantage, June 25. Speaker, dM.

2. Using An Email Newsletter To Promote, Market & Grow Your Business, July 16. Speaker, dM.

3. How To Get Inexpensive Media Attention For Your Business, August 6, Guest Speaker, Katherine Hutt, Media Relations Expert

Spaces are limited so sign up early to reserve your spot! To register online, click here.

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Last Week's Question: The first person to respond with either the correct number of newsletter subscribers as of the time the newsletter published on May 12, 2003, or if, no correct answer is received by June 6, 2003, the first person to respond with the number closest to the correct number of newsletter subscribers as of the time the newsletter published on May 12, 2003 will win a bar of one of my favorite soaps of all time -- Lemongrass Soap by HBN member Leslie's Garden Handcrafted Soaps!

In my work with small business owners over the past several years, I have encountered at least 6 definitive "business personality types." While some people may be a combination of one or more of these types, nearly everyone I have encountered possesses one of these as their dominant business personality type. Over the next few weeks, I will review these personality types. As you read about them, see if you can categorize yourself or someone you know into one of the types. (Any resemblance to real people is entirely coincidental.)

Dan The Dreamer. Dan is a chronic planner. He doesn't go anywhere without his To Do list and his Palm Pilot. He seems extremely well organized as a result, but when you look below the surface, there's really not much there. Dan has lots of plans, and while he may accomplish his list of daily individual tasks, he never turns them into anything of substance. Dan wants to make money quick, and he always has a plan or the next "big idea," but he doesn't want to take any risks or spend any money to make his dreams a reality. Dan might have been the person who sent me an email last month that said, "my business is not very active right now, but I'd like to have your suggestions on ways to make money quick." Unfortunately, Dan's planning is a colossal waste of time. In reality, the only real plan he has is to stay right where he is.

Playful Polly. Polly is a lot of fun. She's fun to be around, fun to talk to, fun to have lunch with. And what's more, she has found her true passion in life -- let's say it's making children's clothing -- and she embroils herself in it every chance she gets. She subscribes to sewing magazines and newsletters, owns the hottest new fabrics from other countries and owns all of the supplies and equipment needed to participate in her passion. Since people have started asking Polly to name her price to make clothing for their children, Polly believes she has found a commercial application for her passion. So, she prints up a few business cards and sets up shop. The problem, as Polly quickly discovers, is that it's not as much fun when you have to do it. For example, if Polly has committed to finishing a christening outfit by tomorrow, but she really wants to play with the imported silk fabric just in from India, she has a real dilemma. Plus, as she moves forward, she learns that not only does she have to make things that other people want, but to keep the lights on, she has to make some things she doesn't like to make at all. As a result, Polly is constantly frustrated, and wonders how something she loved so much became such a drag on her emotionally and financially.

Do you see anyone you know here? Maybe -- maybe not. Stay tuned next week for Part II when we'll meet Wanda One-Way and Carlton Cruiser (a/k/a William Wing-It). Finally, in Part III, we'll meet Unimaginative Ursula (a/ka/ Cora Copycat) and then finally, Solid Sally who trumps them all when it comes to setting and accomplishing goals for her small business, and we'll discover some ways that everyone else can make the changes that will make all the difference in their lives!