We went to bed at a relatively good time last night (11pm) and we are early risers, with me normally getting out of bed at 5.30 or 6 and Paul usually follows at 6.30 or 7, so it came as a massive shock this morning when I rolled over in bed and looked at my phone to see it was 8.07am, WHAT!!!! ‘Paul it is 8.10’ his reply ‘your joking me right?’. We never ever sleep in, even on a weekend we are up by 8 and that is a very good lie in. So panic ensued and we rushed around for a good 15 minutes.
Paul left at 8.20 to walk the dog and go straight to the office as our new forklift was being delivered at 8.30. I on the other had was supposed to be going to the SEO course that I blogged about yesterday, however what I didn’t tell you was that I found out last minute that it was all on Google Adwords! Well this is a particularly sore subject for me and I know all about the good and bad points, so I ducked out of the course for the day and will do the rest of the course shortly.
So off to the office and another busy day ensued. Paul was organizing the sales of the kit we currently have as well as coordinating the new collections. I decided to have a ‘accounts’ morning and organized all of the paperwork for the accountants…..bad idea! Note to self – if you have got off to a bad start to the day don’t then depress yourself with how much money you need to pay out or how costly the staff wages are. Anyway…….
On a brighter note we received Power Seller status and top rated seller achieved for our online retail store 8-Outlet today which gives us lots of new benefits. And our new van arrived today, not such great news as there are numerous things wrong with it but, always look on the bright side of life!
So at 4.30 I uped sticks and left to go home to go to our first Mussel Club event http://www.themusselclub.com/ Paul arrived home shortly after me and decided that we had had such a crappy day that we shouldn’t go. Well I have a motto that if you answer the phone you should always have a smile on your face as this is reflected in your voice tone and if you don’t want to go out to an event that you should because something good always comes from it! So 20 minutes later we bundled into the car and off we went – for those of you who aren’t the brightest I won the ‘should we go/no we are not going’ argument!
Well we got to The Staincliffe Hotel in Seaton Carew and were met by some wonderful people, none of whom are in our usual networking crowd, which made a nice change to meet some new people, and guess what? We had a great time, it was very relaxed and sociable, no awkward silences and it really was just like going out with a group of friends and getting to know them better. By the end of the night we had met some great new people and also had a few leads. To top everything off we got an email from a large North East client saying that they wanted us to do a collection for them. A fantastic end to not such a start of the day. As one very early exiting Apprentice contestant famously said over and over again ‘you have to roll with the punches’ and I guess in a way he is right (although annoyingly) we have to take the mediocre days with the great days!
Well that is enough from me this evening I hope you have all had a good night and don’t forget to vote for me www.ifwecanyoucan.co.uk/challenge look for Louise Moore and vote, you can also vote via text by typing VOTE LOUISE MOORE and texting it to 07624 803199. Good night!
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