~sigh~
I’m feeling much better. ~laffs~
My monthly visitor showed up so…my PMS always go away when it does and today was a good drama free day.
I started out with a smile and was grateful for that. I spent the entire day doing internet networking, which means, randomly emailing people that I feel could provide me with tips on success or possible job opportunities. It’s not easy at all because once you come up with a person you think might be able to help you, you have to research their background and learn as much as you can about them before you contact them.
If the person is REALLY big-time, there’s no contact information for them on the net. If they aren’t, you’ll find their email easily. If there’s no direct contact information you have to be creative. If you know of the company they work for or the last company they worked for, you can contact the communications or PR department and ask for an email or phone number.
Once I was looking for a certain editor but couldn’t find his email anywhere. So I found a press release that mentioned him and I contacted the PR person who wrote the press release and asked her if she knew his contact info. She wrote me back with the information but asked me not to share how I found it.
Sometimes I’ll find a phone number to the company but it will be someone’s voice mail. So then I’ll go down the list calling all the numbers until I reach a real person. Like, if the number is 691-3533, then I’ll call 691-1000, 691-1001, 691-1002 until I get a live person and then ask for that person.
If you still can’t find the person, try the receptionist. If she can’t give you their number, then ask for her email address and write the email and ask her to forward it. This has worked for me in the past for a well known media mogul and she still keeps in touch with me to this day.
Yes, it takes some effort.
Then when you contact them you have to mention some of their successes and why their success inspires you. Then you ask them for advice on your career after sharing some of your goals.
I’d say about half the time, you will get a response. But if you don’t, keep trying.
The rest of the day was spent jotting down ideas for this chapter of my book and contacting sources for the current newspaper story I’m working on. One source gave me what I needed in 10 minutes, but the other still hasn’t contacted me yet. My editor is cool, she knows I’m trying so I’m not worried.
One of the authors that I contacted recently inspired me to get moving on my latest entrepreneural venture. After reading a little bit about my life and my internet adventures, she asked me if I could help out with her website and developing her web presence. I thought this must be fate because I had JUST developed a 10 point strategic plan to attract clients and help them to develop their web presence over a variety of web platforms that I am affiliated with. On one of my bios, I went so far as to say that I am an expert on building a powerful web presence.
Hey..I believe I can do it. Now all I have to do is attract clients who agree.
I love the internet!
I also spoke with dreamy Mr. Donovan Daniels today. Our convo was wild, we discussed some of his latest financial investments, the state of the economy and even dating. He is sooooo smart! I love asking him questions and hearing his passionate opinion. He just moved to Maryland, his job transferred him up there so now he’s even further away from Miami.
I learned a lesson today as well. Remember the man I went out with last weekend? Well, i was not nice to him simply because I was PMS’ing and I wasn’t attracted to him and I didn’t want him to be all over me. ~shrugs~ I had no business going out with him if I felt like that but I promised myself after the last guy, Luke, that I would give the next man who approached me more of a chance to learn who he is.
Anyway, I should have been nicer to him BEFORE i learned that he worked for the TV station that I was trying to get on with. Because I was so snotty, that man hasn’t called me and I never even saved his number in my phone before we went out so I don’t have his contact info to get back in touch with him.
Lesson learned: You never know who God is sending on your pathway. Be nice to everyone, because you never know how they could connect you with your dream.