Life has been really busy of late - I am trying to get companies to sponsor the Run for Heroes fun run in Swindon next June, so far without much success and yesterday I was appalled to receive an email from Jordans who make those yummy cereals wishing me luck with my swimathon! Again it was a thanks but no thanks email but a swimathon for god's sake don't they read emails properly???
I have also been trying to get the band some gigs and have been on twitter as I have made friends with a few people with a view to getting gigs. Fingers crossed I may have picked up a support act slot for this coming Monday with The Damned.
Trying to get back to my studies as well - I have assignments to write and yet have no time these days. I guess I shouldn't complain as my business seems to be taking off..I have been invited to quote to organise 3 seminars about divorce. Have been networking like crazy - I am now the marketing assistant for Birmingham Longbridge 4N group (a voluntary post) and I have been tweeting, facebooking, yakking on the phone, yakking on skype and I have been advertising too. Managed to get a free advert in CES which is a huge directory that goes out to big businesses who may want help organising their product launches etc, got a paid advert in Hospitality & Events North too. I no longer see the point in advertising in wedding magazines because I have had zero take up and I refuse to waste yet more money.
Visited a fab venue the other day, it is only available for use at weekends and bank holidays - its the Council House in Birmingham, their banqueting suite is to die for and for £1200 plus VAT people can hire it for the day..you also get the museum too for that price.
Friday, 27 November 2009
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Where does the time go?
Time is whizzing by so fast and yet it seems as though this week has passed by slowly..it feels like Thursday or am I wishing that it was Thursday?
I spent the latter part of last week, the weekend and this week trawling through all the emails and replying to them, always apologising for the late reply.
I have been out every day this week.
Monday, I was at a course on speaking confidently with a bit of mind mapping thrown in..this was an all day affair. It was in Stourport on Severn and I was given some directions and downloaded some directions from Streetmap which is usually quite good, only I got lost and ended up almost back where I started. Then something took over me and I thought..I will just turn left here and eventually I will get across to the Kidderminster Road but then discovered that the lane I wanted to take to Dodford and Chaddesley Corbett was closed so I headed for Blakedown, stopped and looked at the map to try and work out where I was..then headed for Kidderminster and followed signs for Stourport on Severn and then I needed to call the chap running the course..eventually I found his home. The course was extremely good and now I feel much more confident.
Tuesday, I was breakfast meeting again..I may have a gig for the band I am now looking after (only a small one but a gig none the less and a gig that pays more than £50). Today, I was breakfasting again and gave a video testimonial for Barry's website. I have also been emailing Britvic in the hope that they will donate 1500 bottles of water or sports drink for the Help for Heroes Day incorporating Run for Heroes which takes place in Swindon on 6 June 2010.
This evening I had a call from a chap asking me if I wanted to be a Wikaniko agent selling eco friendly products..I shall have a look but I won't promise anything and just now I have had an email from a lady called Paula who had seen my advert in Perfect Wedding Magazine and is asking for a job..a job that I don't have but I may ask her to help with this Help for Heroes Day.
Tomorrow night I am off to meet the band where we will discuss fees, Friday I am off to Cirencester for a look around the Four Pillars Hotel (where I stayed last week), I may just ask them about sponsorship whilst I am at it...why not kill two birds with one stone?
I just hope that at the end of all these meetings that I get something from them..the Heroes Day will cost me time but could reap rewards as it will look fantastic in my portfolio and it will be the biggest event that I have ever organised.
I spent the latter part of last week, the weekend and this week trawling through all the emails and replying to them, always apologising for the late reply.
I have been out every day this week.
Monday, I was at a course on speaking confidently with a bit of mind mapping thrown in..this was an all day affair. It was in Stourport on Severn and I was given some directions and downloaded some directions from Streetmap which is usually quite good, only I got lost and ended up almost back where I started. Then something took over me and I thought..I will just turn left here and eventually I will get across to the Kidderminster Road but then discovered that the lane I wanted to take to Dodford and Chaddesley Corbett was closed so I headed for Blakedown, stopped and looked at the map to try and work out where I was..then headed for Kidderminster and followed signs for Stourport on Severn and then I needed to call the chap running the course..eventually I found his home. The course was extremely good and now I feel much more confident.
Tuesday, I was breakfast meeting again..I may have a gig for the band I am now looking after (only a small one but a gig none the less and a gig that pays more than £50). Today, I was breakfasting again and gave a video testimonial for Barry's website. I have also been emailing Britvic in the hope that they will donate 1500 bottles of water or sports drink for the Help for Heroes Day incorporating Run for Heroes which takes place in Swindon on 6 June 2010.
This evening I had a call from a chap asking me if I wanted to be a Wikaniko agent selling eco friendly products..I shall have a look but I won't promise anything and just now I have had an email from a lady called Paula who had seen my advert in Perfect Wedding Magazine and is asking for a job..a job that I don't have but I may ask her to help with this Help for Heroes Day.
Tomorrow night I am off to meet the band where we will discuss fees, Friday I am off to Cirencester for a look around the Four Pillars Hotel (where I stayed last week), I may just ask them about sponsorship whilst I am at it...why not kill two birds with one stone?
I just hope that at the end of all these meetings that I get something from them..the Heroes Day will cost me time but could reap rewards as it will look fantastic in my portfolio and it will be the biggest event that I have ever organised.
Friday, 6 November 2009
Busy Busy Busy
I am having a manic time and today was particularly bad as at long last my business email has been sorted out and when I eventually gained access to it, I had over 400 emails and most of them were missed opportunities! I won't bore you with the details as to what went wrong with my email as it is all so tedious.
I recently joined 4Networking and have been having quite a few breakfast meetings lately, my local group recently offered me the post of Marketing Assistant, this is a voluntary post but will raise the profile of my business. On Wednesday I went to South Cerney just outside Cirencester to stay in a rather posh hotel at Cotswold Water Park..it was a jolly nice place but the food was expensive and I must remember that when I book on a room only basis next time to take some sandwiches and maybe some cupasoup so as to avoid the ridiculous cost of a sandwich. Due to the power of 4N I didnt have to stay on my own for too long as a lovely chap called Bruce Boulton who runs his own photography business popped in for a coffee - it was like meeting an old friend.
I went to the breakfast meeting at Coots Cafe which was 500yds from the hotel as planned - I had to take a hamper to their group leader, I enjoyed breakfast and had 3 1:1 meetings as is the normal - I met a fantastic caterer and two great wedding photographers, I also offered my services free of charge to an endurance runner who is holding a huge charity event in Swindon next year in aid of Help for Heroes.
Next week I have more meetings and venues to visit and I shall also be meeting up with the other band members of Third Bullet - I am really enthused about them so hope to be able to get them gigs and a record deal. I am busy with meetings for the next few weeks.
I can see myself moving away from weddings as the corporate side of things seems to be picking up in a big way and I am beginning to think that organising events is the way to go.
I am also in a quandary as to what to do with the 14 page list of brides that I received from Your West Midlands Wedding as these are people who visited their stand at the NEC - I only received this list today as it was one of the 400 emails that I had missed. There seems little point in contacting anybody as the list is now several weeks' old...oh for some enlightenment.
I recently joined 4Networking and have been having quite a few breakfast meetings lately, my local group recently offered me the post of Marketing Assistant, this is a voluntary post but will raise the profile of my business. On Wednesday I went to South Cerney just outside Cirencester to stay in a rather posh hotel at Cotswold Water Park..it was a jolly nice place but the food was expensive and I must remember that when I book on a room only basis next time to take some sandwiches and maybe some cupasoup so as to avoid the ridiculous cost of a sandwich. Due to the power of 4N I didnt have to stay on my own for too long as a lovely chap called Bruce Boulton who runs his own photography business popped in for a coffee - it was like meeting an old friend.
I went to the breakfast meeting at Coots Cafe which was 500yds from the hotel as planned - I had to take a hamper to their group leader, I enjoyed breakfast and had 3 1:1 meetings as is the normal - I met a fantastic caterer and two great wedding photographers, I also offered my services free of charge to an endurance runner who is holding a huge charity event in Swindon next year in aid of Help for Heroes.
Next week I have more meetings and venues to visit and I shall also be meeting up with the other band members of Third Bullet - I am really enthused about them so hope to be able to get them gigs and a record deal. I am busy with meetings for the next few weeks.
I can see myself moving away from weddings as the corporate side of things seems to be picking up in a big way and I am beginning to think that organising events is the way to go.
I am also in a quandary as to what to do with the 14 page list of brides that I received from Your West Midlands Wedding as these are people who visited their stand at the NEC - I only received this list today as it was one of the 400 emails that I had missed. There seems little point in contacting anybody as the list is now several weeks' old...oh for some enlightenment.
Monday, 2 November 2009
Getting Old
Either I am getting old or becoming more intolerant as I get older..either that or I have a headache and can't be bothered. I have just been speaking to a posh magazine that gets distributed into quality shops such as Hugo Boss, Harvey Nicks and Selfridges in Birmingham City Centre. They were trying to sell me advertising space and to be honest the sales woman put me off somewhat it was as though she was trying to be posh but kept telling me that Harvey Nicks in the Mailbox was lush..now I know and you know that Lush is a shop that sells bath bombs and handmade soaps. Their advert was reduced from £350 plus VAT to £150 plus VAT but although it was tempting, I have already wasted enough money on adverts in magazines and I am not really looking at the wedding market any more. Sure, I will organise the odd wedding if asked but I want to concentrate on the corporate market and..this band thing when it comes off..I am meeting them tomorrow.
I have a bad headache today and have had it since I took a tablet this morning. I have been having problems with dizzy spells which are becoming more violent (I have an inner ear problem anyway) so I visited the doctor today to see if they could prescribe me some medication. In the past I have had Stemitil but I got used to taking it as and when and was last presribed some in 2008 now I have some new tablets that need to be taken three times a day and I have to go back in a month - it could be that I have to have the flippin things for life..sigh. I read the contra-indications leaflet that came in the pack and headaches are a side effect and so I have one..my head actually feels hot.
Not much done over the weekend - did some washing that I forgot to take in on Saturday night and so it was wringing wet after being rained on on Sunday - it is now drying nicely in the living room. I received some samples of spray windowcleaner to test for Tesco Home Panels on Saturday and today I received some non-biological washing powder to test..I have two small boxes of powder...that should keep me out of mischief for a while. I also tackled the mound of paper that had accumulated..it is going down slowly as things get either shredded, chucked in the rubbish or separated into the bag that I use to visit the paperbank. I need to have a darn good tidy up and move some furniture about because I bought a new rug today - its pure new wool and rather large but a bargain at £49.99 when ones that look the same are in Argos for over £100...eek. This new rug means that I can get rid of the free one that I found rolled up on top of the bins (I actually found two rugs), they have had a damn good clean but the one that needs to be taken up is a bit grubbier and so I shall roll it up and put it on the bin in the hope that someone takes it.
I have a busy week ahead - on Wednesday I am off to stay at The Four Pillars Hotel at South Cerney (Cirencester) as I am off to a breakfast meeting on Thursday at a venue next door to the hotel. I shall take the time to meet with others and do some much needed study without being distracted by the internet.
I have a bad headache today and have had it since I took a tablet this morning. I have been having problems with dizzy spells which are becoming more violent (I have an inner ear problem anyway) so I visited the doctor today to see if they could prescribe me some medication. In the past I have had Stemitil but I got used to taking it as and when and was last presribed some in 2008 now I have some new tablets that need to be taken three times a day and I have to go back in a month - it could be that I have to have the flippin things for life..sigh. I read the contra-indications leaflet that came in the pack and headaches are a side effect and so I have one..my head actually feels hot.
Not much done over the weekend - did some washing that I forgot to take in on Saturday night and so it was wringing wet after being rained on on Sunday - it is now drying nicely in the living room. I received some samples of spray windowcleaner to test for Tesco Home Panels on Saturday and today I received some non-biological washing powder to test..I have two small boxes of powder...that should keep me out of mischief for a while. I also tackled the mound of paper that had accumulated..it is going down slowly as things get either shredded, chucked in the rubbish or separated into the bag that I use to visit the paperbank. I need to have a darn good tidy up and move some furniture about because I bought a new rug today - its pure new wool and rather large but a bargain at £49.99 when ones that look the same are in Argos for over £100...eek. This new rug means that I can get rid of the free one that I found rolled up on top of the bins (I actually found two rugs), they have had a damn good clean but the one that needs to be taken up is a bit grubbier and so I shall roll it up and put it on the bin in the hope that someone takes it.
I have a busy week ahead - on Wednesday I am off to stay at The Four Pillars Hotel at South Cerney (Cirencester) as I am off to a breakfast meeting on Thursday at a venue next door to the hotel. I shall take the time to meet with others and do some much needed study without being distracted by the internet.
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