end of a fab week

hello cyberworld, well its been a busy week, for the simple reason that I have been taking an hour out each day to ice skate. In sunny Worthing we have a temporary outdoor ice rink. I used to skate when I was much much younger and bounced a whole lot better. However, I have had a fab week, a blissful hour each day of freedom. I had forgotten how much I love it and I've also met some fab people. So come on Worthing lets get behind a proposal for a permanent rink.

I have to kick myself into action now as rooftop number five needs some serious attention, I have followed up from my networking episode, but need to do more...............soooooo much more.

So on that note I put my trust in ...........well something............. the busy fairies will visit me next week and I have another networking event to bravely attend on wednesday. We have a training session first on BLOGS!! twitter and social networking, so I am looking forward to learning loads.

have a happy weekend :-)

I've been networking!!!

I have another hat I wear for a few hours a week - I also work for the Worthing Chamber of Commerce, we had a huge networking event this week, I was there doing the signing in as normal.

Now I would usually run a mile after I have finished my tasks, networking is NOT my idea of fun and I find it incredibly hard. However today I was aware of rooftop number 4 needing my attention so I thought here goes - bull, horns and grab. And grab I did, I made a couple of fantastic contacts for my business which is all you can wish for from these events.

I was soooo chuffed that I had faced my demons and went for it. It certainly helped that I had pinched a great marketing idea from a colleague (thanks Sam from balloon wrap!) and presented my business cards in a little bag with 2 everton mints, that went down really well and wasa great ice breaker.

So now I need to make sure I follow those leads up, and then onto the next challenge.

Bring it on !!!!!!!!!!

very pleased with myself

i was sooo excited this afternoon, I managed to find a way to link my blog to my website - an easy feat for many of you I am sure but not so easy for a newbie like me - so my fabulous new blog is now proudly linked to my web site. I now have to do a bit of work on my site to make it sparkly and new. may take some time :-)

one week on

well its a week since my last blog, had a fantastic couple of days after posting, i guess you put positive thoughts out and good things will come to you. I am the extreme optimist my glass is not only brimming but its floating around somewhere!! I had a lovely email back from grasshopper who inspired me to do this so thanks girls, and asked me to keep in touch, which I will, and I thought it was very lovely of them. We all need to support each other in business it helps to know that there are other people out there in the same boat. If I can inspire someone else that can only be a good thing., I am classing that response as roof number two, now on to roof number three.............

well, after reading a blog from grasshopper porridge in the Daily Mail, which incidently made me laugh lots, I thought I would try one of my own.

I have decided today is the first day of a new era for artifax in worthing. we will fight the credit crunch and blossom through it.

So I now need a plan............i will shout about us from the rooftops, we are the best and we will continue to be the best, and everyone will know we are the best.

So let the shouting begin this is my first rooftop, for anyone remotely interested we do t-shirt printing and personalised gifts.

I do get cross when I see groups of lads on aeroplanes in their matching t-shirts knowing full well they haven't bought them from us, the fact that they probably live 50 miles away is irrelevant they still should have come to us :-). Why didn't they - because they don't know we exist, that is to change as of now.

so next time you are having a holiday, stag night, hen night, party, remember this first rooftop of mine and remember artifaxonline.com. I'm off to discover rooftop number 2, maybe santa can help me find it ????? he's not so busy at this time of year.