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Join me in part 2 of "My Major F*Up", where I share one of my BIGGEST f*ups in my creative business to date 🤦🏻‍♀️

I posted Crooked Calligraphy's "worst review of all time" that one of our calligraphy students left in our “Student Survey” that we ask all our students to complete at the end of the course. I thought that if I blurred out the reviewer’s name enough to make it unrecognizable, it would be ok to post. Turns out, I was absolutely wrong.

In my haste, I didn't consider the impact all this negativity it would generate- not just in the social media world, but within my TEAM.

3 valuable things I learned from my "experiment":

• Sometimes when you “f*** around and find out”... there are consequences. 
• I need to be really honest with myself about my motivations for my experiments.
•  In an attempt to be vulnerable, I was ultimately MARKETING my courses- and hoping the right people would buy. That is not always the best way to go about things.

Running a creative business is HARD- and in a niche business like calligraphy without many precedents, sometimes you have to "make it up as you go". Unfortunately this was NOT one of the times that "making it up" worked in my favor.  But ultimately, I learned so much from a crazy 24 hours- and have become a better creative entrepreneur in the process.

Join me and learn what I would do differently next time- and what f*ing up, failing, and being messy has taught me through this experiment❤️

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