Oh! The joys of Business Development!

I've Twittered and blogged and Facebooked and LinkedIn, I've even found Jigsaw that, for those of you who don't know about it, is like a 'swap shop' for business contacts. Great find! As you can see, I've taught myself how to link them all up, so that YOU can jump from one to another - all this excitement is just too much!

If all that wasn't enough, I've stumbled across this guy who says that I don't have to make any cold calls anymore. Fantastic! Shall we all go home?

I've downloaded the first 10 chapters (that I can have free apparently) and apart from having my brain addled, he still doesn't seem to be getting to the point! I think 'the point' is probably going to be at the start of Chapter 11 (call me cynical!). He did add a quote at the start, that kept me reading this far:

“Oh no, I haven’t failed 5,000 times. I’ve succeeded in finding 5,000 different ways that you cannot possibly build a light bulb.”, which is apparently a quote from Thomas A. Edison,on his progress during his quest for the incandescent electric lamp.

I'm not sure which part of the quote I read. Was it a subliminal message to tell me that without his help, I'm a complete failure? Probably. Whether or not I'll get to the good bit is yet to be seen. I'll keep you posted!

I decided to see if I could find some more positive quotes to keep me going!

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
- Walter Elliott

Then Albert Einstein came onto the scene. He's a bit heavy, but the first one I came across was relevant to my activities of the past few days

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

Watch out world! When I get really into this virtual marketing world - I will be invincible!!!!

Then the next one hit me. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Yep! It's going to be hard.

Then I hit one that worried me: “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

Last week, I hadn't even heard about a blog and I certainly didn't know about twittering (in fact, I'm still a bit confused!) and this week my picture seems to be everywhere.

HELP! EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE LAUGHING AT ME!............ What the hell - I admire my audacity! Others are just going to have to live with it!

One thing I am learning though, is that to network is to find lots of like-minded people who are interested in business development. We want to work with people who want to grow their businesses, because we want to grow Masters. Bring it on........!

One little aside which amused me:

I was on a stall last weekend in aid of our local amateur dramatics group. It was a 'make us an offer' stall. We had this awful green glass vase type thing. It didn't have much going for it, but it did have a lid on it! There was also a green necklace, which wasn't alot prettier. No-one looked at them, so we decided that we would sell them as a set. I decided that if no-one NEEDED them, then I would create a WANT for them. So, the next woman I engaged with (sorry zoomed in on with the sole purpose of getting rid of these dreadful objects)was so convinced of the positive advantages of having these wonderful objects on her dressing table, that she just WANTED them. Hey presto! A sale! And she even offered me £5 for them! (Apparently, she walked away with the goods in her bag muttering the words "but I don't even have a dressing table")....

........selling ice to eskimos comes to mind!! LOL!