{"id":3545,"date":"2013-03-29T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.123print.com\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2016-07-27T20:36:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:36:23","slug":"123print-small-business-sense-caressa-flannery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/123print-small-business-sense-caressa-flannery\/","title":{"rendered":"123Print Small Business Sense &#8212; Caressa Flannery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Looking to start your own business? We&#8217;ve got you covered.<br \/>\nEach month, <a title=\"123Print\" href=\"http:\/\/www.123print.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">123Print<\/a> will interview real, live business owners to uncover<br \/>\ntheir tips and tricks\u00a0to starting and growing a successful small business in the<br \/>\n123Print Small Business Sense interview series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This month &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Caressa Flannery, Owner of <a title=\"Create-a-Pulse Marketing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.createapulsemarketing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Create-a-Pulse Marketing<\/a> and <a title=\"RelyLocal Frederick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.relylocal.com\/frederick-maryland\" target=\"_blank\">RelyLocal Frederick<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><strong>talks about starting and growing her businesses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FULL INTERVIEW:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"123Print Small Business Sense - Caressa Flannery\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A1sTFQT0mU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more-->On the go? Here&#8217;s the INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"123Print Small Business Sense - Caressa Flannery (Highlights!)\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Axc3-VLUR7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some key takeaways from Caressa Flannery&#8217;s interview:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">Challenges are always going to be prevalent in any small business. You&#8217;re always going to come up against things that don&#8217;t quite go right.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a good juggler so time management ends up being a forte, in some ways.<\/li>\n<li>If I don&#8217;t know how to do something, I will seek a way to find out.<\/li>\n<li>Giving back to the community myself and people knowing what I do actually helps the businesses.<\/li>\n<li>Community Service makes you a well-rounded business owner because it&#8217;s not all about you.<\/li>\n<li>I tend to migrate toward professionals who have\u00a0persevered through challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Social Media has been very effective for growing both of my businesses.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve got to have that balance. You can&#8217;t be work, work, work all the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The advice that I would tell somebody starting their own business is to go for it, to not give up on your dream.<\/span>\u00a0 I mean, seriously, there are so many times even after I\u2019ve started my business where I am like, \u201cOh, I can\u2019t do this,\u201d or, \u201cOh, I shouldn\u2019t be doing this,\u201d and I really think that that inner voice, you just have to squash it.\u00a0 You have to go for what it is that you \u2013 if you aspire to do whatever your passion is, you need to be passionate, first of all.\u00a0 You need to have that passion for whatever specific task or skillset it is and just go for it, because the best is yet to come, as they always say, and you never \u2013 you just never know.\u00a0 If you give up, you\u2019re gonna give up a dream, perhaps, so I think it\u2019s just really important to master that and be able to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">fight past and be focused and stay positive and stay the course.\u00a0 That\u2019s what\u2019s really important.<\/span>&#8220;<strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; Caressa Flannery<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Caressa Flannery Full Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A1sTFQT0mU4\" target=\"_blank\">[Click here to access the FULL video interview]<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Caressa Flannery Interview Highlights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Axc3-VLUR7o\" target=\"_blank\">[Click here to access the interview HIGHLIGHTS]<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Caressa Flannery Interview Transcript\" href=\"http:\/\/www.123print.com\/blog\/transcript-123print-small-business-sense-caressa-flannery\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Click here to access the interview TRANSCRIPT]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the official Create-a-Pulse Marketing website:\u00a0<a title=\"Create-a-Pulse Marketing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.createapulsemarketing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.createapulsemarketing.com<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">C<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">reate<\/span>-a-Pulse Marketing on Facebook:\u00a0<a title=\"Create-a-Pulse Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/createapulse\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/createapulse<\/a><br \/>\nCreate-a-Pulse Marketing on Twitter: <a title=\"Create-a-Pulse Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/createapulse\" target=\"_blank\">@createapulse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the official RelyLocal Frederick website:\u00a0<a title=\"RelyLocal Frederick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.relylocal.com\/frederick-maryland\" target=\"_blank\">www.relylocal.com\/frederick-maryland<\/a><br \/>\nRelyLocal Frederick on Facebook:\u00a0<a title=\"RelyLocal Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RelyLocalFrederickMD\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/RelyLocalFrederickMD<\/a><br \/>\nRelyLocal Frederick on Twitter: <a title=\"RelyLocal Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RelyLocalFredMD\" target=\"_blank\">@RelyLocalFredMD<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Let us help\u00a0<em>your<\/em> business succeed!<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"123Print\" href=\"http:\/\/www.123print.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.123Print.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to start your own business? 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