Since 2015, people in different industries have been using Ucraft to build unique professional websites for their businesses, projects and personal brands. Over the years, we’ve accumulated a user base of talented and dedicated visionaries from all over the web. It’s safe to say that our Ucrafters make us incredibly proud, and we never get tired of scrolling through the sites our builder creates to see how each user can personalize Ucraft for themselves.and now E-commerce is on the riseas is the number of Ucraft users who have opened an online store using our builder.
Speaking of which, we have an exclusive user case study this month dedicated to girls in Ucraft. We’re talking about female visionaries and entrepreneurs who are always moving forward, doing their thing, and bringing something new. Let us tell you – deciding who will do the job is a challenge in itself. After going through a long list of special websites, we narrowed our selection down to the two that caught our attention the most (and business ideas).
The three lovely ladies we selected were kind enough to answer a range of questions related to their business, challenges they overcame, and other similar questions. Read on to learn more about their business and Ucraft’s journey, as well as some great advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Let’s dive in!
lark
lark is a curated online store of baby shower gifts, established by new mothers May and Vi after the birth of their daughter. As friends and acquaintances had already asked the pair for baby shower gift ideas, they went the extra mile and opened their own online business to meet the demand. Let’s learn more about their stories.
1. Describe your business idea/model in a few sentences:
Lark Roo designs practical, high-quality and unique gift sets for babies, moms and dads.
2. What motivated you to enter this market segment?
Pregnancy and preterm birth are a very precious time for new parents, as well as family and friends who support them. We wanted to create beautiful and functional gift sets with tried and true unique items that new parents will love and provide a seamless gift-giving experience for friends and family. As mothers ourselves, we often get questions from new parents about baby supplies, as well as baby shower gift ideas from family and friends. We realized there was a way to serve new parents and the communities that love them.
3. What factors or life events motivated you to become an online business owner?
As busy moms eager to make an impact, the flexibility of an online business is appealing, and platforms and tools like Ucraft allow us to create virtual storefronts and easily conduct business and connect with a wide audience that mortar shops don’t.
4. What challenges did you face when building your business? How did you overcome them?
As a small business, we’ve learned a lot from trial and error and continue to learn how to run a more efficient and impactful business. It helps us to keep an open mind, to be comfortable with the unknown, and to evolve as we learn from our mistakes. Finally, when working as an entrepreneur, you can sometimes feel isolated. Still, it’s important to remember that you are part of a wider community and that there are many others who have solved/are solving the same problems you are facing now. It’s a matter of proactively staying connected!
5. When designing your website, did you find the process easy or challenging? What is your source of inspiration (if any)?
We love the website design process and find it fun to imagine and relatively simple to execute. We tested several different platforms and found Ucraft easy to navigate and appreciated the responsiveness of customer service via chat. When you’re running an online business, your website is the first and lasting impression you make on your customers, so look, feel, content, and ease of use are critical to engaging with customers. To design our website, we put a lot of thought into our target customers and the interface, design and branding that appeals to them.
6. Do you have any advice you would like to share with aspiring entrepreneurs?
Don’t be afraid to use your network and community for support! Entrepreneurship can be a roller coaster, with ups and downs, but learning from your experience and the experience of others makes the journey fun and rewarding.
Vanya Ayala (Van Clegg)
Web Designer and Motion Graphics Artist Van Clegg Undoubtedly living an interesting life. Born in Mexico City, married to an Irishman, and currently living in Vancouver, Van is pursuing her goals as a digital designer – a win! Let’s see how she made a name for herself in the competitive world of digital design.
1. Describe your business idea/model in a few sentences:
My business model is simple. As a web designer and motion graphics artist, my goal is to collaborate with clients on their ideas and guide them through the creative process to realize their vision for the project!
2. What prompted you to enter this segment?
Motion graphics and web design are able to evoke and express that energy and emotion that I hold dear as a Mexican. It’s a form of communication, and through my business, I help people communicate their needs in a similar, vivid, profound way.
3. What factors or life events drove you to become an online business owner?
As a creative and digital media artist, moving my business online is critical to reaching clients and providing them with the best possible service.
4. What challenges did you face while building your business? How did you overcome them?
Growing up in Mexico, there weren’t many opportunities to grow a business like I did. In the future, I would love to be part of the development of the digital design industry in Mexico. However, to overcome these challenges, I moved to Canada, studied at Vancouver Film School, then worked for various media companies and started my own digital design business.
5. When designing your website, did you find the process easy or challenging? What is your source of inspiration (if any)?
Ucraft is an intuitive platform that makes it easy for business owners of all levels of online experience to publish and promote their ideas and products. This is a very simple tool to build a website. However, as a designer, I find it also has sophistication to really showcase my skills and services to a level that I’m comfortable with.
6. Do you have any advice you would like to share with aspiring entrepreneurs?
Give it a go! You may fail, but if you don’t try, you’ll never know! Be wise, have a backup plan, work hard and see what happens!
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It’s a wrap!
We really enjoyed writing this segment and hope you found it just as interesting and engaging. It can be difficult to choose between so many amazing sites, but we think the two we’ve chosen provide great answers to some of the key questions in the world of online business.
If you’re still waiting for a sign to take that leap and start your own, then consider taking a step in the right direction from this article. As highlighted above, chasing your dreams is always preferable — no matter what the doubt.In addition, there are many useful integrated Now in the market, both free and paid, can make the task of starting an online business much easier.
While starting an online business can be stressful initially, designing your website is definitely not a must.Follow in the footsteps of these girls and create your own amazing platform Uket.
