A lot has happened since my decision to transition from a corporate drone to a truly independent consultant. Here is my story of the past 25 days, the 25 days that I said was to be devoted to updating my web site and concentrating on my new consulting business. Alas, the best laid plans of mice and men...
On September 21st, 2010, at an ACE Consulting Expeditors, Inc. sponsored table at the AITP "Battle of the Operating Systems" meeting on September 21, 2010, I officially "launched" my consulting company & its corporate website
TheConsultingAce.com . I boasted that I bought, created and updated the site in 25 hours and imagine what I could do in 25 days. The meeting and launch went great, I collected business cards for a contest to give away a free 6 month subscription to web page on my site for either my ACE Coupon Express page for businesses to advertise their specials and coupons on the Internet, starting at under $20 a month or my ACE Career Expeditors page for people in transition and looking for a new opportunity. I have not yet priced the ACE Career Expeditors page yet, but I'm thinking it's worth at least a $9.95 a month.
Alas, here we are 25 days later and I'm getting ready to take my daughter to the Sayville Fall Fest, and my website is nowhere near what I expected it to be and here's why...
The first few days after the launch, I spent going to networking meetings, planning for an October 16th Share-a-Day in Merrick, meeting with possible partners for my consulting company, working Real Estate leads, meeting business owners to sell websites, celebrating Punctuation Day on September 24th, (My sister Carole's birthday as well), moving out of my Syosset apartment that I was only using 1 or 2 days a week anyway, joined 2 racquetball leagues at Sportime in Syosset (Monday's at 8:30 & Thursdays at 7:00 in case anyone wants to come down and watch), arguing with my WebSite Sales Business Partner and Possible Future Girlfriend (WSSBPAPFG) about not being focused enough on selling Websites (as if our EBS relationship issues were not enough), having similar focus "discussions" with my family, going to court to battle my future ex-wife's (FEW) support payments and visitation rights and taking my daughter to see "Legend of the Guardians", which was a great movie and one that I highly recommend for all ages.
I got tired just re-reading what I was doing, so I decided to focus on 3 things, rather than being a jack of all consulting trades. I had a meeting with my parents and Sally, my WSSBPAPFG, all of which thought I was crazy to start my own business and ignore corporate America. Sally wanted me to just concentrate on Website Sales, stating that it was the fasted way to produce income for myself. My parents wanted me to keep looking for a "real" job and forget this silly business thing that I was doing. After a very interesting dinner conversation, I made the following recommendation...
I would concentrate on Website Sales, Real Estate and IT Recruiting, spend my week as follows...
MWF: Work on Web Site Sales, visit businesses, do cold calling, update my website, create flyer's and create processes and procedures for Website Sales, including cold calling scripts, prospecting logs and cards and organizing my A/R's & A/P's.
TuTh: Work on my Real Estate leads, update my Real Estate Website, Social Media Campaigns, Open Houses and training.
Saturday: R&R, networking meeting in any, visiting with my daughter.
Sunday: Have a Century 21 Open House or go to a Website corporate training session.
* The recruiting work would be sprinkled throughout the week as opportunities arose.
It's now October 1st and I haven't even looked at my website, but I now had a plan and could start focusing, or so I thought. I started to work on my new plan when I get an email from Time Warner Cable at 1:04 pm, stating that they already scheduled me for interview on Monday morning at 11:00 am, and wanted to confirm that I could make it. My first instinct was to say no, but I figured, what the heck, it may turn out to be a great opportunity and if not, I may be able to use my recruiting business to fill the spot and get a referral fee. So I relpied that I would be there Monday at 11:00 am. I spent the weekend going to an all day seminar on Saturday and Sunday doing something, but my CRS is kicking in and I didn't write it down. (CRS = Can't Remember Stuff, but don't worry, it''s not contagious)
Running out of time now, but I'll continue this blog this weekend, in the meantime, remember that Life is too important to take seriously....
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