Today I worked from home as I arranged for two people to come and help me with my very old windows that were in enormous need of a spring clean and with some lovely mice that I discovered in our house when they attacked all the Easter Eggs in our son’s bedroom cupboard.
OK, I hear you say, what has that got to do with us?
Well in both cases they spent 30 minutes quizzing me on how social networking would help them and of course I loved it and spent time individually with them to explain.
It was a great hour in my life today.
1. The Window Cleaner is actually learning to be an Accountant and is doing a diploma – so people are not always what they seem are they. I showed him Mark Lee’s Group for Accountants – Find an Accountant and explained how he could network with other Accountants and learn how they run their own businesses. Currently he is spending time on FaceBook and could not see the connection between the social side of FaceBook and doing business in a social way. Lesson learned when he said “but I couldn’t get to all those accountants through FaceBook”
2. The Pest Controller, a great guy who is very knowledgeable, thinks outside the box about those little pests and already belongs to a forum writing about Clay Pigeon Shooting. I explained that one day he may want to be known as a Global Pest Controller ‘ the Pest Man’, perhaps by writing Blogs and sharing his experiences of housewives and their pests he could begin to have a ‘personality’ on the internet and one day he might be invited to Dubai to help control pests in a 5 star hotel! I think his first Blog might be ‘how to teach housewives that food should not be kept in kids cupboards’!
Learning that everyone will need to have a social media presence, share their knowledge and become a known expert for something is very tough to transition to, but if we all help someone learn this each day we will help them survive and feed themselves in the future.
So that is a good day, I enjoyed it and I have created a small shift ion two more people’s lives… now that is living in the moment wouldn’t you say Sam?
Warm regards
Penny Power
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