This week was has been a busy one. And really exciting.
On saturday I missed my flight (slept in duhhh) up to the Gold Coast where I was invited to attend an eBay conference and share my story with a bunch of budding eBay entrepreneurs (400 or so). So after getting the next available flight I made it with about an hour to spare, phew. It was a really great exeperience. I really felt like I'd come a long way with the business, after looking out across the room with so many people waiting intently on everything I had to say (probably would have helped if I was holding the mike properly). Afterwards I spent stacks of time telling people about what my experiences had been over the past 12-18 months and hopefully I was able to give people some insight into what's possible with starting an online business through eBay. It really wasn't I stuck around on the sunday aswell - being in that environment was a fantastic boost.
I spent Monday working from my hotel room on the laptop. Damn I missed the dual 21" monitors from home though! still it was good to get away. I had a meeting with my eBay mentor on tuesday for around 2 hours, where we brainstormed my next steps beyond eBay and ways to stay front-of-mind with my customers (newletters, website, blogs). Things are slowly starting to come together... but I'm acutely aware that I'm not out of the woods yet.
I also spent wednesday at a business mentoring event which was awesome. It was good to network with likeminded people - when you're at home in your office you're often by yourself and shut out from all these other fantastic people who are going through similar issues as yourself.
I'll tee up another mentoring call in a month to make sure I'm on track with the internet marketing/blogging/newletter stuff and progressing along (it's easy to get stopped by little technical things or the fear of needing to get it right).
Who knows one day I might write a book about all this! (stay tuned)
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