Christmas Party!!

As a member of Mums in Business, I went to their Christmas party. Now, not many networking and business groups that I know of have their own xmas party, so it was great to attend.

There were heaps of us there- over 65 I’m told and the food was delicious!! I made some new contacts, renewed some old ones, have a laugh, drank some champas, and won a prize!!! I won a family portrait from Tessa Gallery Studio valued at $450! Yes, I did a little song and dance and pumped my arms in the air and let out a “woohoo!!” and made a bit of a fool of myself, but I was chuffed!!

Then Alison took the time to thank me for all the help I had given her over these last few months which was great to be recognised. I returned the favour and thanked her for providing such a valuable network for all of us.

So, my last two weeks have been so busy, but it’s back to normal next week and if you called and I didn’t answer- I’m sorry!! Try again this week!!

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I’ve done it again!

Well, following on from my latest forgetfulness, I was getting ready to take Hayden to the speech therapist yesterday, and thought I would drop into the bank beforehand. So, we are getting ready, and I find Haydens scrapbook- with a note on it reminding me that we changed our time to make it earlier. Guess what time??

Yep- right then!! I had completely forgotten again!! So I ring up and we had to make a new one for next week but I felt like such a ditz!!

So we went out and bought a new diary for next year- and I pledge to use it!!!

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Publicity Queen!!

Publicity- everyone in business wants it, but how to get it?? Today I went to a meeting run by Donna-Marie from Jacaranda Business Services with the guest speaker being Sally Romano- Publicity Queen. It was a great talk, and even though there was no projector for Sally to use, she did a wonderful job.

Sally talked about the various avenues for media, using the TRUE system. Take a look at her site and also her ebook that she is selling on Ebay for the moment.

The last week was so hectic! It started with my first ever venture to the Redland Women in Business meeting. Of course I went to their christmas party as my first event and found it quite fun. That was last Tuesday night. Then I was out all day Thursday, thursday night, Friday, Friday night, down the coast all weekend, came home on Monday- straight into a committee meeting at the kindy which went forever and was actually a little feisty!!
Then today- as above, and then did one thing that I will remember for quite a long time to come!

I set up a business meeting with one of the women I met at the Redland Women in Business Meeting and then totally forgot to go! Luckily, she rang me as a reminder and only had to wait about 10-15 mins for me to get there. I was very embarressed and have made a note to use my diary more often!!

Anyway, lots of information has been learnt over the last couple of weeks and I will be posting here more regularly!

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Winner Finally announced

The winner of Diva Promotions October competition has finally been announced- Sarah from Quilt Fabric Delights now has $200 to spend on advertising at Bub Hub!!

Congratulations Sarah and hope it brings in some new customers for you!

Things have been pretty hectic the last week with Diva Promotions. I’ve been working with Mums in Business and I must say, we’ve been making some headway!! Also I’ve been looking into finally getting a CRM program so I can keep track of all of these campaigns, and when people have paid, and when to follow up. My excel and whiteboard just aren’t doing it for me anymore!!

I’ve got my kids Art Show tonight at the Kindy. This is where they display all your child’s art work from the year and put it up for auction! It’s a fantastic way to raise money- our centre is a not-for-profit centre so we need to get as much as we can. Should be a good night- wonder how much I’ll spend this year….

Roll Up, Roll Up!!

Come and get your Diva Promotions affilate banner!!

Finally, we have launched with ClixGalore. After so much umming and aahing, I decided to ’screw it and just do it’ to use the words of one very famous business man!

So, visit clixgalore- www.clixgalore.com.au and look under ‘business’ and you will find Diva Promotions. We have 3 different banners to use, plus a text advert.

Fingers crossed this will go ok!!

Working from home??

There has been a bit of talk going around the traps lately about working from home and how to seperate it from your family life.

It’s pretty hard to do sometimes!! I’ve actually found a routine that is working for the moment, and allows me to keep my service up- which is something I have found to be incredibly important.

Hubby goes to work around 5:30 am every morning. I *try* to get up with him, and go out to my office. Whilst the kids are asleep, I action my emails that came in throughout the evening and night-time.

Then I write down anything that needs extra time to action, and turn the computer off. I lock the door and walk away.

Once the kids go down for a sleep during the day, this gives me approx 1 hr to action emails that have come in throughout the morning. Again, anything that needs extra time to action, gets written down on my ‘email action’ list and when the kids wake up, I turn the computer off, lock the door and walk away.

After dinner, or when the kids are in bed for the night, I turn it back on again, and this is when I action my emails, and so some of the action points I have written down for the day. If there are no action points, I work on developing my site, or getting new leads, or devising new advertising plans etc.

I have found this works for me, however has taken huge amounts of discipline!!

One day I will get myself a shared office so I can get out of this house!!!

Competition closed!

Diva Promotions’ very first competition has just finished. We received some great feedback from it which was wonderful. The winner will be announced very shortly!!

We are currently looking for another prize for our next competition so stay tuned.

Also, our latest campaign- Birth.com.au is taking off! We again received a great response to the newsletter advertising and unfortunately had to turn some people away. It is a very selective newlsetter, and to keep the great click through rate, we have had to limit the amount of advertisers.
Hopefully this will become a regular monthly occurence as it is well received by my clients!

I’m currently working on getting the Mums in Business xmas party set up. We’re doing a charity function, with proceeds going to the Working Wonders foundation at the Childrens hospital here in Brissie. So far, we are having some great luck with some awesome prizes to be won and raffled. That’s on the 30th November on the north side of brissie- anyone is welcome- just let me know!

The email hackers have struck again, this time my web designer- kerrie has been hacked over the weekend, and her paypal and ebay accounts compromised. Why can’t they just go and get a real career?? Hopefully you get it sorted asap Kerrie!!

I’ve been tagged!!