Hi everyone, well it’s January and even though i hadn’t planned starting Nutty Giraffe until now, December got off to a great start.
I had to quickly design a logo so that the Nutty Giraffe brand could start it’s journey. Business cards were printed and social media pages created and/or updated. Facebook was a new business page, but I like the idea of people knowing who the person is behind the company, so as a self employed one man band right now I decided to keep ‘me’ but change the user name to Nutty Giraffe on my other social media pages. This might change in time, but it was a bit of a whirlwind at the start.
It’s really not easy designing something for yourself. Nothing was good enough and you feel like you are going to be judged as it’s what you ‘do’. I didn’t use the colours I thought I wanted as they didn’t work, and ‘favourite’ fonts weren’t right. There’s also nothing wrong with tweaking or refreshing your identity later on in the life of your company.
So how has time been spent in December starting up the business… the month that where I was going to chill out leading up to Christmas and start in the new year? Well, straight away I was approached to help a new company with start up ideas, so a morning of brainstorming ensued with exciting things to come. Then a local solicitors asked for some new ideas for some print advertising, and it looks like this has shown my skill sets and more work has come in already this year. Then there is the Plymouth Albion programme which I have carried on with after leaving the previous company. Meetings booked in the diary for next week to talk about how I can help another new business fill a gap in their services, and social media assistance for a well established Plymouth building supplies company. And we’re only four days into January…here comes 2019!
Terri @NuttyGiraffe