Friday, March 27, 2009

In The Beginning...........

     If I had known what I was getting myself into when I started this adventure of entreprenuership--I never would have started.  I simply would not have had the courage.
     I convinced myself the experience I had aquired from being in sales and the restaurant business for 35 years made me a shoe in for success.   I could talk with anyone about almost anything,  therefore,  I would have no problem presenting my product.   I thought all I had to do was make business cards,  spread a few flyers around town and  explain  the benefits of my product to everyone I saw.  I called myself having "a plan".   I was good to go! I quit my job!  I told myself I was now the ruler of my own destiny!  
     I went nowhere!  Noone would talk with me.  That "plan" DID work --when I sold makeup door to door 20 years ago!  I couldn't figure out why it was not working NOW.  I started reading and reading and yet MORE reading.  I read so much my hair started to curl!!  I was learning an entire new vocabulary!  What is reverse funneling?  What is social media?  Facebook?  Are you kidding?  I don't want to do Facebook---that is like scrapbookking for kids isn't it?  And what in the WORLD is Twitter?  So I read some more.  Finally it all started to make sense.  I am forming a NEW plan.  And that new plan is what I will be sharing with you in the weeks to come.