Biz Confessional…My Biggest Bizness Breakdown Ep #28
I’m a big believer that in order to succeed in business, we need to stand in our truth when it comes to assessing what is AND is not working in our business, AND we need to be transparent to the world (most importantly to our customers and clients).
Let me guide the way for you.
Today, on the 3rd episode of my biz confessional series, I confess (and spill all of the details) about my biggest bizness breakdown. We’ve all been there, and sometimes it ain’t pretty. Today you’ll hear my story.
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Hi Mara, My confession is Promoting Myself is a Nightmare, after 8 years in the press and much longer as a photographer, I am now working on my mindset and I am getting there! From your video #28 I see that I am so lucky that my boyfriend has self learned computer programing (in the last 3 years), he flew throught HTML, CSS, Javascript and various others, now tackling XML! We have lots to learn and I will be back to visit you here – I love your site very much, it’s really packed with info, thanks for all! Blessed day to you my friend!
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I would have to say I have had several meltdowns. Especially in the beginning. I made the mistake of trusting a salesman that came knocking on my door to sell me screenprinting equipment. I thought it was a blessing from above as I had been looking to find where I could buy the equipment in Canada with no success. He promised me the world and beyond..the equipment plus training plus designing and creating my workspace. He came through only with the equipment, which I paid too much for. Disappeared before I got any training and had my space finished. I was in debt, and had to learn how to screen print from a book!
7 years later, I have just moved into a bigger and brighter space. It took me many years just to decide to stay in this business. But when I made that commitment, my business started to build.
Monique Gerber
Shout It Out Screenprinting
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I am going through the exact same thing now, the person that created my website used the pictures I sent him of my products. He didn’t create anything for me at all the words used were the things I told him about my products he didn’t add anything to capture an audience or make people want to buy at all. It tells them more about me then what I or my products can do for the consumer. NOT GOOD AT ALL!!!!
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Hi Mara, My biggest meltdown was similar to yours. But it involved a local tech–one person. I had my very first teleseminar scheduled and my web materials were given to the tech a month ahead of time. Imagine my freakout when I discovered that the tech was on the phone with my web host one hour before the teleseminar. I was going to be sending people to my website–that didn’t even exist–on the teleseminar. I freaked and had 50 emails at the teleseminar time asking “where’s the teleseminar?” Luckily a friend (who’s now my operations manager) came to the rescue and emailed every one of them back (there were 100 more who didn’t email me) and we decided to do the call 2 nights later. But the website was barely barely barely done in time. Oh, yeah–and I paid the tech beforehand on her website w/paypal. Sheesh.
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OMG, I once worked almost all night long installing a forum changing html code and the whole nine yards. For no reason at all I suddenly lost ALL the work I did which had taken me HOURS and I was exhausted. I don’t think my family ever got over the tantrum I threw.
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Hi Mara,
I'd say one early "teaching event" in one of my businesses was the disappointment of being excluded from a social media network (a smaller one fortunately). One guy was placed in charge of "membership" of that network and made the decision because he felt that I was promoting my site on the network, but in fact he was probably concerned that I offered a newsletter that competed with his company's products. He said they preferred links to pages with traditional ads rather than newsletters. I ignored it and moved on to focus on Twitter which has paid off and I'm now ranked on the first page of Google for my subject. I just continued to write and interact to get there.
Secondly, and this is just an offering, I'd say in regard to your situation that it may be worth having a chat about it. My approach is great at resolving such situations and it sounded by your voice that it's not over yet for you. The key I'll share with you and everyone else here is to "get over it inside," or it will not end "outside." And substituting the phrase "teaching event" for "meltdown" could help as well. Bridging that gap internally is the key. ; )
Be well,
David
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