Entrepreneur Spouse: Fresh Tips to Spruce Up Your Holiday Advertising Design

Yep, it’s time to start planning your holiday ad campaigns and getting those ideas flowing. To help put a fresh take on your ad campaign this year, I’ve put together this list of ad design tips along with a few examples. These are great to brainstorm while taking time off from your shop during a [...]

Entrepreneur Spouses: Support at Home

As military spouses, whether you were married prior to enlisting in the service or not, you know what it means to support your better half while in active duty. This show of support comes in many forms: from giving up your career, to when you have kids, to moving away from all your family and [...]

Entrepreneur Spouses: House Parties

A dear friend of mine, not to mention my favorite candle supplier, Deb Ragsdale is a Navy wife and, like many of us, has an Etsy. LilacAve has been around for a few years and she was gracious enough to let us in behind the scenes to learn how military wives, like herself, can take their [...]

Entrepreneur Spouses: Social Media

Most military spouses who work, work from home or online. Either way, you can use social media to help boost your sales and spread the word about your amazing services! Even if you are in the middle of a PCS, you can use your social media tools to keep your customers up to date and [...]

Entrepreneur Spouses: Free Delivery!

Sometimes it’s nice to get something for nothing! Offering free shipping has been proven to increase sales and gain customer’s confidence in shopping at your site if they know that they will not be hit up with shipping fees in the end. Customers always commit to the price they see on an item but they [...]

Entrepreneur Spouses: Survey Says

We all love being the center of attention in our shopping experiences, let’s admit it. And when we have an opinion about something, well… that hard-headed military spouse attitude can get a whole lot accomplished! So if we like to give reviews and feedback about what we love and what we hate, give your customers [...]

Entrepreneur Spouses: Packaging 101

There’s a lot to remember when starting up your own business, especially if you are not a individual sales rep for a company like Mary Kay, etc, where you are not given your own branding and packaging supplies. So what’s a girl to do if you are tired already from digging deep into your creative [...]