My Son, The Businessman!

[bustagasket]

Well, what a shock i had last night.

My middles son, Kurt, whose room i have taken over, popped in last night having just been to see some clients in Peterborough, with a business proposition.

Apart from having set up his own light hire and Dj company with the most amazing range of lights and lazers etc (Komumoo Productions) he has also started to work for his girlfriends mother full-time .

He has been helping her for about a year at odd times as she runs 3 mailorder lingerie companies (even supplies some Ann Summers stores lol, but its not all "that" kind of lingerie, they do the classy stuff too) and is bloody successful, and she was approached by another firm, several times asking if she would buy them out as they couldnt cope. She declined them until a couple of months ago, when Kurt had been out of work for a few months and his searches just werent getting anywhere. They discussed him managing this new company - doing all the repping and distribution etc and decided it was a good idea. So she bought the company and started to fully train him.

They were discussing their range and some of their clients like to also stock jewellery. Kurt kept saying that they had been checking out supposedly good quality jewellery and decided mine was better, and more unique as it was handcrafted, making it a good selling angle! So he has asked me if i was willing to let him show my jewellery on their websites (they get thousands of hits a day) let him have some samples to take with him when he is on the road, and let them take them all to the big london show that they are having a stand at representing all the companies.

I could not believe the business knowledge that he was coming out with, talking about insurance and seasonal collections and colours and marketing etc. He would mark the jewellery at a far higher price than i would dare charge as their clients are very afflluent, and he said i was underselling myself, now that he has looked at a lot of stuff.

I have to produce a portfolio for him to take with him to clients and really pull my finger out now to up my stock, and organise hallmarking and packaging.
Its all exposure for me as far as i can see in an already established market, and as its Kurt i would be working with, i can completely trust him not to rip me off, and in fact his "commision" is negligible but he wants to extend his range and meet his clients criteria and at the same time, and he knows that selling is my biggest fear, so it means he can help me too hopefully.

If this works it will give me a strong outlet where i can stay happily in the background, which would suit me down to the ground lol.

So we shall see, its all very early stages and they were just preliminary talks last night, just to see if i was interested in giving it a go, and there will be lots of meeting to come, but i am so pleased that he wants to try to help and that i will hopefully, be working with him. And, perhaps, i can help his sales too

Even if nothing happens I am so proud of him for the way he has taken this opportunity by the horns. It has given his some stress issues, and in fact ended up at the doctors as he had been hyperventilating for two days because its a lot for a dyslexic and dyspraxic lad to face, but he is not shying from it, he is quite determined it seems to become as successful as his girlfriends mum, and they are helping him all the way.

I think my boy is becomming a man