NOTED sustaining + growing small business

Why do you want a storefront so badly?

1. Retail therapy is real: shopping takes your mind off of life's demands, it boosts your confidence, it's refreshing and gratifying because you are contributing to your self image.

2. You deserve to be loved and served: being catered to, respected and loved which brings you joy and that joy is contagious. 

3. To provide an experience: there's something about walking into a beautiful, luxurious space, hearing great music and touching stylish, quality clothes. We want to be that something.

We want to bring the Noted shopping experience to many locations, Louisville is just our first stop.

Why do you want a to hire so badly?

1. Mentorship and Coaching: Everyone that joins the Noted team will be SOMEBODY, they will be encouraged and challenged daily so that they can be highly sought after professionals

2. Gifts: Everyone has been given special gifts from God, but not one person has ALL of the gifts. In order for Noted to thrive we need a team of people to use their gifts and love what they do.

3. Growth: In order for us to properly serve our customers we need more hands, minds and hearts.

Why do you want to give a grant so badly?

1. Tithing: Brittany knew she couldn't keep all of the money for Noted, she wanted to give 10% to something she cares deeply about which is women entrepreneurship.

2. We know what it's like to have no capitol and a big dream: Brittany started Noted with a $200 gift from her Mom and a credit card. The $200 quickly went and the credit card quickly turned into multiple credit cards. The feelings of stress and defeat are not healthy for anyone or a business.

3. Mentorship: After being in business for 3 years Brittany has made countless mistakes and grown into a relentless business owner. Brittany wants to help encourage a small business owner to keep going and growing.

How does someone apply for the grant and who qualifies?

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Qualifications: Woman owned, located in Louisville, KY and has been in business for two years or less

How did Noted come about?

In the summer of 2018, Brittany Boone's (founder and owner) entrepreneurial itch came in a full breakout, God laid a vision on her to start a retail store with fashion, home décor and gifts. 

She knew she couldn't afford retail space yet along the product to fill it at the time. So she decided to start SOMEWHERE.

Brittany created a few gift baskets, but something wasn’t right, it had too much variety and different brands, she wanted something that was more branded and concise and thought, why not create the product that goes into the gift baskets. 

She then ventured off into creating smelly goods (hence the name Noted aka scents and a word that she frequently uses to say “got it”). She created soaps and lotions and enjoyed the few batches even though she still didn’t perfect the recipe.

In the midst of her smelly good production phase, she got pregnant!! A blessing, no doubt, but it came with a terrible case of first trimester morning sickness. She couldn’t even LOOK at the smelly good products.

The THOUGHT of the fragrances made her want to vomit. Brittany was bummed because her master plan was to have the recipes perfected by the holidays and share them as gifts with family and friends to test the market, but she literally could not get the guts to face those fragrances.

Instead of mass production during Christmas break she was stuck on the couch watching tv. She watched a show called Minding Your Business where a business consultant comes into your business and fixes the bugs.

This one particular episode was about a young lady, probably not too much older than Brittany, started her boutique 3 years ago. She said she started with nothing and literally no experience she just followed her love of fashion and it blew up overnight.

Everything about her story lifted Brittany, it brought back her feelings from earlier in the summer, which she completely forgot her original idea was to open a retail shop with fashion, home décor and gifts.

Brittany thought, if she couldn't bring her fragranced body care to life at this time, why not help others bring their business to life and provide business resources for them. 

As she was working on this incubator plan she received some advice from a local successful retail owner, he said "before you try and help someone else, you need to first help yourself."

Those words totally changed Brittany's perspective and she took it as "I need to first figure out how to make a business successful before I can teach others how to make their business successful."  

So she moved forward with women's fashion and has never looked back.

Our purpose: 

We serve. We style. We inspire.