Showing posts with label drum up business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drum up business. Show all posts

Friday, April 15, 2011

Better tired than not

I came up with that expression a few months back when I noticed that everytime I had client meetings I'd be dead tired after. And heck I'm NOT complaining, it's quite the opposite. I'm actually REJOICING! Why? Coz that means money coming it, which is a good thing. Whenever there's less calls and less meetings that means there's no moolah, simple as that. So I would rather stand on a bus for an hour like I did today after my client meeting than sit around in the office. It truly is such a good feeling.

But, (yes, there's a but) the money coming in isn't for vacations. No no no. It's to pay for all the BILLS. Yes, I think that's what my world revolves around most of the time. Chasing payment due dates and trying to amass that sum to pay for it. I'm just glad and thankful that it works out fine. But I wonder sometimes, will they ever end?

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

What's up?

Dear Readers (aka Siblings),

I'm sure you've noticed some changes when you clicked my blog on your Favorites (which I'm sure is an excuse for not remembering my website url. I understand you guys are getting old! Haha. Kidding.) Anyhow, I changed my page font so you can read my posts better cause I'm nice! Truth is, I found it hard to read as well, so I changed from Consolas to Verdana. Common but practical. The important thing is I get my message across, no? And I changed the setting to reflect only my latest post cause my recent posts have been kinda long so scrolling seemed to be a bother. I've also (finally) managed to put up two posts I promised ages ago. Those are my most helpful posts on finance to date. *Crowd goes wild* Lol.

Anyway, work's been draining all the life force out of me. I'm trying to drum up business cause the bills don't pay for itself nor does it stop coming. What do I do? I made a Multiply webpage for the company a couple of years ago; the contact info there is up-to-date. And I still check from time to time to see if there are any inquiries. But there hasn't been any comments posted this year! Do people even use it anymore? I've already created a FaceBook page and had everyone at work add their friends. A couple of inquiries here and there, but it's not doing as well as I expected. I've even sponsored an event last month, but out of the hundreds of flyers we gave out during the event, we only got one caller asking about the flyer from the event. What's wrong with our strategy? We used neon-colored paper for the flyers and Facebook is the "in" thing, right? It just doesn't add up. Is there someway I can advertise for no cost at all? (Aside from word-of-mouth which isn't helping much.) Someone out there, Help!