The Cost of Starting Small
Florence d'Or: The Journal Entry 03 — The Cost of Starting Small Published every Friday at 7:00 AM Nobody tells you what small actually looks like. They talk about humble beginnings in theory. They quote scriptures about small things becoming great. They tell you to start somewhere. But nobody sits you down and shows you what that "somewhere" actually looks like on a Tuesday afternoon when nobody is buying and you're carrying a perfume bag through hostel corridors, hoping someone opens their door. I know what starting small looks like. Florence d'Or taught me. Starting small for Florence d'Or was bringing perfumes from home to sell in school because of supplier issues. Since it was a family business, it was safer, more convenient, and it made sense. Starting small for Florence d'Or was going round the hostels, room by room, block by block, on random mornings, knocking on doors and telling people to patronise me. Starting small for Florence d'Or was do...