How long has it been?

[Bronze_Palms]

How long have you owned your business for? 

What did your business start out as and what has it evolved into? I recognize as time moves on, our businesses shift in a different direction.

I started my business in November 2019, officially opened March 2020 as a spray tanner, and now I own two storefronts. One with staff that offer spray tans and the other I rent out rooms except for one and take services there.

[SheilaWhite]

8 years.

I enjoyed doing a little bit of woodworking for many years and kept trying to think of something I could make and sell. My husband asked me to make an end grain cutting board and that was my ah-ha moment. I started Kitchen Wood Etc. (Etc. because I didn't know what it would lead to) So that was Feb. 2018. In Dec. 2020, I bought my first lathe. I'd never used one, but wanted to add things like bowls and pepper mills to my kitchen inventory. Well, I was hooked on turning immediately and barely did any flat work after that.

I was asked to display/sell my work in a local gallery that had been looking for a turner and were thrilled to find a woman turner. I eventually stopped saying "I'm a woodworker, not an artist" after having pieces accepted (and even sold) in local art exhibits. 

This year, I decided on a new name ... and that is how ART MEETS WOOD by Sheila evolved.

According to my sales vs. expenses numbers, it's still more of a hobby than a business, but I'm hoping to make more than I spend at some point and retire from my day job before I'm 90 lol.

How to become a millionaire doing woodworking? .... start as a billionaire 😁

[DinaLRosenberg]

We've been in business for 7 years.

We started out as a teeny tiny retail store. Now we have the whole building with garden, the storefront next door, a podcast, and a conference LOL!!

[ehflower]

We are a fourth-generation family business, proudly serving our community from the same location since 1908. For more than a century, we’ve remained relevant by embracing change — and by staying nimble. Being small has always been our superpower.

We began as a truck farm, later evolving into growing and selling fresh-cut flowers and transmitting floral orders across the country by telegraph. As our community grew, so did we — expanding into ornamental annuals and perennials to serve the gardeners around us.  We had our first website in 1995, selling native plants online which then switched over to a more floral website through one of the larger companies.  We started with square in 2020.  Often we "zig" when everyone else "zags".