It’s My Birthday and I’ll Grant Wishes if I Want to!

By startupprincess | Published March 14, 2007

I’m 34 today. Happy Birthday to Me. ;) It truly is my BEST year ever. I believe that life should get better every year…don’t you? I’m creating the BEST year ever everyday…and you are all a part of it. Thank you for being a part of the joy in my life. To celebrate all that is beautiful and good in my life, my greatest birthday wish is to GRANT WISHES to Start Up Princesses.

Why am I giving presents on my birthday? Because I want women entrepreneurs to succeed! I am interested in what they need, how we can help here at Start Up Princess…so, last week I emailed our network of over 100 Start Up Princesses and asked them to share with me their wishes with me.

The Top Wishes: 

The #1 Wish was PRESS. 

My Answer? PRESS is a great wish…and one not so difficult to achieve, but it’s all about connections and a great story or product. I have had a bit of success in my former PR/Publicist days. So, when one Start Up Princess wished to be featured on Daily Candy my first question was, who do you know that’s already been featured? Can you ask them what THEY did? Did they know someone? Could they make an introduction? Can you send a press kit? Can you spin a great story or give them sample copy to use? I also offered to write a recommendation letter because their gig really DESERVES to be on there and I have no doubt it will be some day soon.

The #2 Wish was more help with growing their business nationally, reaching larger audiences–more distribution channels, help with creating a catalog

    My Answer: When one Start Up Princess wanted help taking her massive ecommerce site to a new level by reaching clients via a catalog, I told her to contact the local college graphic design department students and post an ad or request an intern to help her create a template that she could use or if she wanted to hire someone, to consider elance.

The #3 Wish was help with child care

When this issue comes up…I always recommend hiring a college aged student as mother’s helper to come into your home for a few hours a day. I have one that comes 10 hours a week and we love it.  Sorry I can’t babysit for you, but if you’re local and want to trade babysitting…I’m up for that! :)

What is YOUR WISH? I’ll open this up to everyone. If you comment and let me know your wish I’d be delighted to try and grant your wish… by giving you a tip, a suggestion, an idea to help you along with fulfilling your Start Up dreams.

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9 Responses to “It’s My Birthday and I’ll Grant Wishes if I Want to!”

  1. Lisa R on March 15th, 2007 7:07 am

    Happy Birthday Kelly! And on your birthday, how could I wish for anything else except happiness and success for you and your family:)

  2. startupprincess on March 15th, 2007 7:47 am

    Thanks Start Up Princess Lisa, you are so nice! I know you have SOMETHING you’d wish for?! I’d love to have a chance to bless your life.

  3. Abby M on March 15th, 2007 9:12 am

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELLY!!

    It is very strange to ask for a wish on YOUR birthday but here I go… I wish for good health for my mother (she is fighting cancer) and a wonderful year for Before Kids… (increased traffic to our website!).

  4. Merri on March 15th, 2007 3:55 pm

    Happy Birthday Kelly! I wish for higher google page rank and for more inbound links! :-)

  5. Grandpa & Grandma on March 15th, 2007 5:35 pm

    Here’s wishing you a “HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY”

    Happiness and success in all your endeavors. We love you.

  6. Sally on March 15th, 2007 5:38 pm

    Dear Kelly,

    Happy Happy Birthday to you!!!You certainly had wonderful
    parties growing up, now you can teach others!! I’m glad
    you had a wonderful year!! Much love and success to you
    and your family!

    Love, Sally

  7. Jamie Bird on March 15th, 2007 9:03 pm

    Happy Birthday! Hope you had a great one with your family, and that this next year brings StartUpPrincess lots and lots of success!!

  8. startupprincess on March 15th, 2007 9:42 pm

    Thanks to all for the well-wishes and I’m sending them right back! ;)

    Abby-I’ll keep your mom in my thoughts and prayers. Did you ever start your blog? That’ll get you more traffic to your website. Write an online Press Release monthly too.

    Merri-You’ll get more links; I’ll add your blog to our Start Up Princess Blog Page and give you a link there. Register your blog on http://www.blogher.org

    It really was a FABULOUS DAY. Onto great things this year!! Blessing and Love to all. ;)

    Any other wishes??? If they are secret, send me an email! Kelly AT Start Up Princess DOT com.

  9. Margie Zable Fisher on March 16th, 2007 5:46 am

    Hi Kelly,

    Hope you had a wonderful birthday! I see we are fellow Pisceans – my 40th birthday was this past March 8.

    Anyway, regarding the #1 wish for press, I wanted to let everyone know that I am offering a free tele-seminar on how to get PR and publicity for your product business. It’s on March 29.

    More details are available at http://zfpr.com/productpr.htm

    Best Regards,

    Margie Zable Fisher
    Zable Fisher Public Relations
    http://www.zfpr.com

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