On my birthday, I told all of you Facebookers “thank you for the wishes” and that “for 31, it’s time to get going.”
You may have wondered what I meant by that. While it could have meant a lot of things, as I am getting a lot of things in gear right now, but it didn’t.
Naturally, I was talking about events. My social events aren’t a big deal, but I brought a couple groups from initially less than 600 members and no events to over 5,000, just from my events. I kindly asked the organizers if I could talk to them. I basically wanted more control over the groups. They kindly didn’t get back to me, which is Minnesota Nice, I guess.
So I formed my own group, Mid 20s-30s (or so) Twin Cities Social on Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Mid-20s-30s-or-so-Twin-Cities-Social/
Basically, I had some friends who were 39, so I wanted them to still come. Also, I didn’t want as many college kids. Not a big deal, but I wanted everyone to be in the same place in life. I also wanted to help build collections. My friend D complained that meetup people are just at meetups. I wanted to make my group integrated with FB, so you could make a new friend and they could keep in contact by likes and such.
I kind of don’t think my friend will commission anymore since I introduces him to a friend at an event and he dated her for a couple weeks. Who knows. But there’s more.
I’m also using it to get closer to restaurant management. Not so they can be my clients, but for the main thing on which I’m going to start to get going: business events.
I’m great at events, I’m great at teaching, I go to business events a lot, and I know exactly what’s missing in the business event world.
I’m going to have two kinds of events. Without giving away things while they’re in the development stage, I’ll have one type of event that will teach people the basics. The other one will teach them how to kick it up a notch.
The latter one needs more development. The fist one is about 30% created. It is fully conceptualized and it’s infrastructure is being made.
But that’s what I meant. I want 2016 to be another year of unprecedented growth. So far, YTD sales are only up 28% over 2014.
Kicking it up a notch keeps me busy!
