Running your own design business from home
Mar 10th, 2007 by mark
If you are good in design and are creative, put those skills to work.
Who knows, it can grow into a very viable business.
Do a few designs, take some good photos, scan them, build a website, promote it and there we go, the birth of a business.
One very good example of this is http://www.lilduckduck.com/.
Lilduckduck.com provides a greeting card design service which is highly personalized and customized.
From the looks of the website, their specialty is in baby cards and engagement/wedding cards.
What’s more interesting is that the design site is integrated with the owner’s blog. If you read through the blog,
you can guess that lilduckduck.com’s creative owner is a mother who has a young kid. Besides blogging about her designs, she also blogs about some “mother” type stuff as well. This include recipes, events in bringing up her child, baby stuff, oh and recipes!. All in all, I think she has built a community of readers who are interested in her designs as well as her journey as a mother of a young child.
Judging by the photos of the cards she has created, this looks like a successful business. I’m pretty sure, most of her business is by word of mouth and through the reader community that she has built up all this while.
Well if Mama Duck can do it, why not you?
What a great story! It is amazing that she can runa business and take care of a 2 year old!
She deserves a medal… =)
Hi Alan, Daniel,
Thanks for dropping by.
If you guys noticed on MyBlogLog panel on the right, MamaDuck has popped in too!
Say hi and *wave* to MamaDuck!
Oh, I see you are spying on me!! I’m coming back to say a proper thank you, it is so nice of you to write about me (LOL I had to wait until I’d had coffee and was awake this morning). The 2 year old loves to help package up orders, feed envelopes into the printer and sits on my lap while I work. I also do a lot of work at night after he’s fallen asleep beside me (the joy of the laptop). I definitely had to do something more than just stay at home with him, nothing wrong with that, just that it was turning my brain to mush and my wallet to empty ;).
Anyway, thank you again!
Hi Mamaduck,
I’d love to talk to you as well! I wanna know how you manage to juggle a home business and a 2-yo child…
Let me know if you’d like to be interviewed for my blog www.youngupstarts.com. You can reach me at daniel@youngupstarts.com.
Daniel,
Great! once its done, can I post it here too?
Not sure if MamaDuck remembers that once, I too wanted to interview her lol
Mark, I have interview questions in my box and I am SO terrible about getting them done *blushes*. Daniel, I’ll do my best to answer your questions too. I have to just sit down and do it already. Mark, I don’t even have your questions anymore tho, sorry.
Hey Mark,
Nice post here about how home businesses can succeed. And great to see Daniel hanging out here too. He he… Let me know when the interview with MamaDuck is done guys so that I can have a look at it too.
Ok, I reread that and it doesn’t make any sense, I need coffee, more coffee ;). I have interview questions from OTHER people in my e-mail that have also been just sitting there, sadly neglected. Mark, I had yours on my other computer, but lost them when I switched over to the laptop, not that it hasn’t been months and unforgivable.
Hi Mamaduck,
Well I can send it to you again after I revise my questions.