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Originally Posted by Phil
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Thanks, Phil, for sharing that!
I found this part interesting...
"When starting her business, she carried her mannequins through casinos herself, transporting them inside her Jeep Cherokee.
"'When you walk through a casino with a mannequin, people always have the most horrible jokes,' she said."
So, she was sometimes laughed at... people would snigger and make jokes...
But, being laughed at wasn't enough to stop her!
I liked the other part about her beginnings, too...
"A customer requested mannequins, so Wainwright borrowed a few from a friend. The income paid for her apartment for a month. Encouraged, she created a website for Las Vegas Mannequins.
"The Indian Pavilion exhibiting at MAGIC was her first customer, with a 15-mannequin order. She stored the bodies in her condo, building her business bit by bit."
So... The first mannequins that she rented to a customer, she actually borrowed from a friend!
And as she got deeper into the business, she was storing mannequins in her condo!
It shows, you can work with what you've got - you don't necessarily need to "spend big" to get your start in a business...
You can use your connections and their assets (here, she first used her friend's mannequins before buying her own), and also use your existing assets (like she used her own condo as storage space)...
Thanks, Phil, it was a very interesting article, with some great wisdom there...
Best wishes,
Dien