I wonder how many of you feel that way given the vast number of opportunities surrounding us every day. While I embrace the opportunity to stretch beyond my somewhat narrow boundaries and entertain new possibilities, I am only one person, managing a business that seems to be in hyperdrive. Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that my suppliers all provide incredible tools, not only for research and educational purposes, but as a tool to market their products to my customers. It allows me to provide professional services in a superior way!
As somewhat of a workaholic, I have a difficult time shutting down my system to relax! I seem to be in a perpetual state of brainwave that doesn’t want to allow me to rest. When I am not selling, I am servicing. When there are no customers present, I am creating and managing. My problem seems to be that I simple love everyaspect of being an entreprenuer! I love the challenge, the endless sense of accomplishment and I adore the friendships I have with my clientele! To that last comment I must add that for lack time for a social life, I am grateful for my customers who consider me their friend!
My days are filled with so many special offers that need to be provided to my clients, but customers are provided with only a fraction of the specials out there due to lack of time on my part. I’m trying to get myself in the habit of posting on facebook and my blog several times each week.
What I need, are a few of you who are more tech savvy, to teach me a few things about the new world of social networking! I have managed to establish myself on Facebook, LinkedIn and even Twitter, but I’m less than proficient, and there are some benefits that I know I am missing out on. I don’t have time to spend endless hours posting on walls and joining “causes” or taking quizzes to see determine my character. But I admire my adult friends who have revived their lives with such enthusiasm. I know their is a way to use RSS feeds and postings to provide my friends with current promotions and destination information, but I have yet to figure all of that out!
What I need, are a few good friends who are totally comprehending all of this new technology to teach me now to utilize it properly. I could use someone to blog daily, write my monthly newsletter, update my data-base daily with new prospects, send out my weekly email specials, and prepare my marketing materials. Then, and only then, would I have time time give my undivided attention to my well-deserving customers! Now, I concentrate on the urgent needs of planning trips, with all else taking a low priority.
With better planning and rigid scheduling of my time, I hope to do a better job in 2010 bringing information to all of you! It is such a pleasure to share vicariously in your trips and the pictures you share with me of your trips are so rewarding! Please keep sending me links!
I might find time to reignite my social life but I will have to find some new friends since most of my own have given me over to my workaholic lifestyle years ago! I’ve been promising myself more “ME time” for the past 3 years! I think I deserve that much, afterall, my initals are TME! Ah, the sweet smell of success! Being too busy to do anything but book travel, or enjoy travel Myself!
I encourage you to share with me!
Tina
“Your Personal Travel Concierge”