-: My name is Bobbi Jo Biers,
and I do a wide range of things.
I own my own business called Traveling Chic Boutique.
It is a mobile
women's clothing business.
So I have a 1963 Airstream that's been converted.
And I travel around and I do trunk shows.
The Airstream, it was completely gutted on the inside
and redesigned to be a woman's boutique.
So you walk in, there's a couch,
some display racks, adorable chandelier,
and it's painted really nice.
There's a fitting room in the back of it.
And then I have cubby holes to put jewelry
and scarves and handbags.
A typical day for me can be dropping my kids off at school
and coming home,
entering new inventory, tagging it, steaming it,
pricing it, displaying it, taking pictures,
running it through social media,
logging it into website,
logging it into your inventory,
doing research to find out who,
what shows I can go and hit
and set up at and reaching out to customers
to book trunk shows and book private showings at the house.
So it can, yeah.
And to start buying online a lot of them require
that you have previous purchases through a wholesaler.
So for me the way that I,
the best way for me to get started,
was I go down to New York at the Javits Center,
and there's fashion shows.
I call them fashion shows.
And there's hundreds, thousands of distributors
and wholesalers, and I literally walk the floor
up and down the aisle looking for
new designers and new brands.
Feel it, touch it, look through.
Most women say oh that's so fun,
that's a dream, and I say yes,
it is a lot of fun, but I can promise you
you will be exhausted at the end of the day.
So besides doing the boutique,
which is what I do, I also teach
a young entrepreneurs academy here at West Conn.
It's not a West Conn program,
it's run through the Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce,
and I'm their program manager.
West Conn is a partner of ours and hosts it,
and that's a 30-week long class
that I take middle schoolers and high schoolers
through the process of owning and operating
and launching a business.