Learn Something New

In response to the last posting re: the law of attraction I received an email from my sister Angela in Cheshire who has always had a passion for riding horses and she told me an interesting fact: The law of attraction is similar to what horses do naturally. If turned out in a field with a large herd of all breeds and colours they pair up with the ones most like themself.

On Tuesday evening I went to the Crowne Plaza Hotel which has an oceanfront restaurant, for a seminar on marketing with small business owners, Floridians certainly know how to do this in style! The evening began with networking, something most people hate to do. We were invited to be seated in a conference room with a main facilitator. We were given a time limit of 30 seconds each using a microphone to introduce ourselves to the 70 or so people that attended so that people could connect with someone they wanted to speak to and sit with over dinner, which was set up in the next room. I thought this was a good idea and taught you how to be succinct in explaining your business to others, although I wondered how people felt that didn't get invited. It reminded me of school PE lessons and the picking of the Netball and Hockey teams, where the same girls were always the last to be picked. I was always a softie and when I was Captain always picked these girls first, which is probably why we didn't win!

The dinner was lovely and the speakers were all local business owners who gave their own marketing tips and yet again that day I learnt a few new things, particularly how to market your products and services for nothing. The organisers have promised to email me the presentation slides so that I and anyone else who is interested can have those tips too.

My favourite thing I learnt that day was completely useless to me but cool! If you download google earth and want to look at certain places on the globe and you depress ctrl, alt A, then the cursor turns into a flight simulator. When I arrived home Charlie (who loves gadgets) and I spent ages flying to friends and families homes, it made us smile anyway!