When I was a kid I was forever selling things. At first it was food that I'd walk door to door asking neighbors to buy (I'd go home and have my mom make whatever the item was AFTER making the sales and not telling her beforehand), then it was Avon in my preteen to early teen years and of course school fundraisers. And each and every time I loved it! I enjoyed the process of selling so much that I would have sold anything, even now- sales are one of my favorite parts of running my business.
When I was in my late teens I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I just FELT that was where all directions were pointing me and the idea of operating my very own small business just thrilled me to death! At the time I had no clue what kind of business I wanted to have, just that I needed to be my own boss and have one.
Life didn't lead me into owning my own business right away, instead it took me on a very long and circuitous course through the land of retail, hospitality and management. Which is exactly what I needed it to do.
Having those other jobs allowed me to gain the experience I needed to then step out on the shaky limb of entrepreneurship with some knowledge and understanding not only of what I needed to do to be successful but what my clients needed to do as well.
It wasn't until 2010 though that I got the idea for what would later become Baldwin's Gallery. At the time I was a supervisor for a local branch of a corporation in Lancaster, PA. One day during work I happened to walk into the employee break room in time to catch a coworker creating mini works of art on paper cups- doodling. As soon as I saw the details, the intricate style and breath taking process of what he was doing I immediately told him he had to do something with this amazing talent! I was on fire to see him do something with it beyond doodling on paper cups that would be thrown away!
So we put our heads together and I coordinated his very first art exhibition, which wound up being a screaming success!!!
I was so high on the feeling after the opening show ended that I just knew that was the kind of business I wanted to start.
In August of 2012 I finally started Baldwin's Gallery (back then it was called Baldwin's Dirty Little People Art Gallery) with the goals of helping people and working with art. I had no clue it would become what it now is nearly a dozen years later.
Baldwin's Gallery has gone through a number of changes since the start, as do most businesses, but the one thing we've stuck with since the beginning is our 2 main goals- helping others and working with art; that has not changed at all and continues to shape the way we do business even after over a decade of doing this.
I'm so very thankful for all those work and life experiences that helped prepare me to be more than just a salesman, because even though that's still one of my fave parts of what I do the business is so much more than that and I'm so glad it is.
When I was in my late teens I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I just FELT that was where all directions were pointing me and the idea of operating my very own small business just thrilled me to death! At the time I had no clue what kind of business I wanted to have, just that I needed to be my own boss and have one.
Life didn't lead me into owning my own business right away, instead it took me on a very long and circuitous course through the land of retail, hospitality and management. Which is exactly what I needed it to do.
Having those other jobs allowed me to gain the experience I needed to then step out on the shaky limb of entrepreneurship with some knowledge and understanding not only of what I needed to do to be successful but what my clients needed to do as well.
It wasn't until 2010 though that I got the idea for what would later become Baldwin's Gallery. At the time I was a supervisor for a local branch of a corporation in Lancaster, PA. One day during work I happened to walk into the employee break room in time to catch a coworker creating mini works of art on paper cups- doodling. As soon as I saw the details, the intricate style and breath taking process of what he was doing I immediately told him he had to do something with this amazing talent! I was on fire to see him do something with it beyond doodling on paper cups that would be thrown away!
So we put our heads together and I coordinated his very first art exhibition, which wound up being a screaming success!!!
I was so high on the feeling after the opening show ended that I just knew that was the kind of business I wanted to start.
In August of 2012 I finally started Baldwin's Gallery (back then it was called Baldwin's Dirty Little People Art Gallery) with the goals of helping people and working with art. I had no clue it would become what it now is nearly a dozen years later.
Baldwin's Gallery has gone through a number of changes since the start, as do most businesses, but the one thing we've stuck with since the beginning is our 2 main goals- helping others and working with art; that has not changed at all and continues to shape the way we do business even after over a decade of doing this.
I'm so very thankful for all those work and life experiences that helped prepare me to be more than just a salesman, because even though that's still one of my fave parts of what I do the business is so much more than that and I'm so glad it is.