Yeah, and I just want to say too that is I also thought sort of like when I was starting out I was like what what's selling what is the market want blah blah and you can try to fit into that mold or you can create your own market and I feel that I feel like

Everyone can create their own market whatever you're selling there's someone out there that's interested in it.

And a lot of times they're not even interested in the work they're interested in you.

So you're either going to put yourself as a spotlight depending on how comfortable you are.

Me, I like to hide behind my work. I don't want to be a personality. I don't ever into not being a personality.

But there are a lot of people that are very comfortable being personalities and their work may not be as great as other people on Instagram or on other websites, but they're visible and they're loud like they're the loudest people in the room so people gravitate towards that.

But you know I think really a lot of it is just creating your own market.

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In the world of working for yourself you have to remember that business is personal.

People hire people and being polite can go a long way.

So where do the most polite business owners in America live?

New research from Fresh Books reveals that Oklahoma, Alabama, and Ohio

have the most polite small business owners in the country. Fresh Books recently analyze customer data to uncover which

business owners by state are the most likely to use please or thank you on

their invoices. And where to Emily and I come from?

Oklahoma and Alabama.

Those please and thank yous combined with the legit looking invoices

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