Laurie's Cobalt World Earned an Honorable Mention In Last Year's Contest!
Please vote for Laurie’s Cobalt World in the HomeBased 100 contest held by StartUp Nation. It’s already that time of the year again. Voting is very quick and easy.
I love having a home-based business. Luckily, a few years ago, my father, husband, and I added a lot of space to our home. (Dad and I built the house together in 1999-2000). In the additions, we have a craft room, classroom, and glass room. Try saying that three times fast.
You can often see pictures taken in the craft room in photographs we take for the crafts sections of my monthly newsletter.
The classroom has turned into a combination classroom, weight room, and teen lounge since it was first built. I suppose we should call it the multi-purpose room now!
The glass room is actually a long room with two large closets. One closet has built-in shelves full of cobalt blue glassware. The other closet has shipping supplies. That was originally a computer nook for the classroom, but we “stole” it for Laurie’s Cobalt World. (And consequently got each of the three younger children a computer for their own room.)
The large glass room is also full of glass – some on built-in shelving, others in cases under the work tables. More is on industrial strength floor-to-ceiling shelving. Some is on the work surfaces. And often there is a piece or two queued up in the light box, where my husband takes photos of the glass for the website.
I’m always looking for ways to add more glass to the glassroom since I’m also interested in adding more quality cobalt blue glass made in the USA to Laurie’s Cobalt World. It’s pretty stuffed right now, but I think I could add some cases to that closet!
The additions to the house also contain two office spaces. I used to have the smaller space when I only had my two rabbits websites. But when Laurie’s Cobalt World started doing well, he agreed to switch offices with me. Now my commute to work is about 12 steps. It would be about 4, if I slept on the other side of the bed!
Working at home means that I am often here outside of our posted business hours. I have taken phone orders on Sunday afternoon or late in the evening. It means that I can turn around an order quickly since we are not a huge organization – there’s no lack of communication between the office and the warehouse.
It also means that I’m intimately familiar with everything I sell. I inspect it all and I’m very proud of the quality of glassware we sell. I love talking with our customers on the telephone. And I really enjoy all of the emails we receive from happy customers.
I love having a home-based business. And we do a good job of it. We sell a great product, offer exceptional service, provide a newsletter at no expense, and operate our business with integrity. Please vote for Laurie’s Cobalt World.
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