About Little Red Suit

January 26, 2007

Purpose
The purpose of LittleRedSuit is to explore the many ways our lives, our efforts, our careers and our PR and marketing efforts are impacted by our new media world. Join me in this conversation, and you’ll probably hear a lot about marketing, media, Generation Y, the workforce, communication, personal branding, relationships and very likely several other topics. I may just get into how the ideas of social capital can be useful in everyday life.

So, What’s With this Red Suit BusiTiffany and the Little Red Suitness?
The image of Little Red Suit is a metaphor birthed out of a one-day quarter-life crisis when I felt my career, my pursuit of education, my numerous ambitions and my personal life collide on the crux of a decision point – I could continue pursuing whatever path lay itself out before me and learn to be satisfied where I ended up, or I could make my career, my education, my ambitions and my life observances work for me. So, I started this blog to both further that purpose and to talk about these things as they arise in my life. There was also an actual suit involved. Read more in my post, Parable of the Little Red Suit.

Author
My name is Tiffany Monhollon, and I’m a PR and Communications professional. At my day job, I do a lot of research and writing on the topics of management, HR, career development, generations in the workplace and similar subjects. I also do PR and media relations consulting work, along with a multitude of other corporate communications functions.

I’m currently pursuing my master’s degree in Journalism. Basically, that means right now I’m spending a lot of time reading about social capital – an idea you’ll hopefully hear a lot about on this blog.

After work and on weekends, I blog, brainstorm website ideas, assist my friends in launching a start-up t-shirt business, and work on my thesis, the last step in my master’s pursuit.

In my other spare time, I am a laundry-avoider, closet Lost addict, book geek, adopted aunt, aspiring worship leader and youth ministry volunteer.

Disclaimer
At Little Red Suit, I write about my opinions, thoughts and insights. What I blog here does not reflect the opinions of my employer, persons or companies I mention, or anyone else. Unless they just happen to agree!

5 Responses to “About Little Red Suit”

  1. mom Says:

    you are also …….. AMAZING……. loved talking with you and I am now a faithful reader of your blog… Dad and I are so proud of you. It’s so fun to watch your life come into focus even though there are still many unknowns. God is good as he guides you into new adventures and as he helps you find fulfillment and balance in your life. Here’s too the continual adventure of life…………


  2. Hi Tiffany,

    I just learned about your blog on Modite. Looking forward to reading your blog — seems like we have a lot in common (including many of the same favorite sites listed on our blogrolls).

    Keep up the great work!
    Lindsey

    http://lindseypollak.blogspot.com


  3. Hi Tiffany,

    I left you a comment a while ago but never recieved a response? Just checking to see if my email reached you at all? :)

    Thanks


  4. Hello! My name is Jeremy Parker and I am a 23 year old entrepreneur. I am
    the CEO of Tees and Tats, a high-end, limited edition t-shirt line
    designed by world renown tattoo artist Marco Serio. We launched the
    line last July, with much success, selling to many high-end boutiques
    all over the US and Canada. But starting last November, are sales
    starting to slow dramatically as with the rest of the economy. A
    large percentage of the stores we were selling to – closed, and the
    stores that have survived are not placing re-orders.

    I did not want to concede to failure- because if the entrepreneurial
    spirit dies, America will be in a much worse place. I knew the store
    issue would still be a problem, because high-end retailers are not
    buying goods anymore, but I came up with an idea that I thought might
    help our online sales.

    I first lowered our prices from $110 to $55. This helped a little
    bit, but people where still not buying like we saw earlier. So I came
    up with a concept that at the time seemed bizarre, but now has proven
    to be a savior for us.

    Now when a customer buys a shirt on our website (www.teesandtats.com),
    they are told the price of the DOW. For every 100 points that the DOW
    drops within two months after the time of purchase they receive $5
    dollars off of their purchase. For example if a customer buys a shirt
    for $55 dollars and the DOW is 8200 and two months later the DOW is
    8000 – the customer gets a check in the mail for $10 dollars. The
    reason why people aren’t buying high-end fashion- is that they are
    nervous about affording food, rent and other necessary living
    expenses. Obviously very understandable. So by assuring them that if
    the economy deteriorates even more they would get some money back –
    it made it very enticing for many customers. Our sales have been up
    significantly since we started this.

    One important additional element to the Tees and Tats philosophy is
    our desire to give back. For every T-shirt sold in the initial
    collection, we are going donate a percentage of proceeds to the
    non-profit ArtWorks Foundation. Based in Englewood, N.J., ArtWorks
    provides children and young adults suffering from chronic and
    life-threatening illnesses, and their siblings, access to creative and
    performing arts programming which encourages the use of the creative
    process as a vehicle for healing, communication, self-expression, and
    personal development.

    I just want to thank you for listening to my story, and I want to say
    that as things are looking bad and seems to be getting even worse– It
    is going to be the American people who are going to fix this problem.

    Best Wishes,
    Jeremy Parker

  5. sparklegem Says:

    I think we have a lot in common. Will be reading your posts with interest!
    - Crystal, whygeny.wordpress.com

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