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.