Create
FUN in your Business – as if you were a KID!
My
business is created around fun and yet I didn’t realize that I
was still holding back. I wasn’t paying attention to
those inner messages saying, “…really create this the way
you want it,” because I thought that’s what I had done.
I finally GOT IT
one day after I figured out how to market my business and have FUN at
the same time. Here is an example from one part of my business. See
if this rings true for you.
After creating
my first exciting marketing program new ideas began springing up.
I told a friend, I wanted to create additional “fun” programs
but kept getting stuck. She said, “You like brainstorming, its
part of everything you do, create a single program around that.”
So I did. I thoroughly enjoy having brainstorming groups, and have received
some great results and feedback, but after a while I felt like something
was missing—something I was ignoring. I discovered what I really
wanted to do was take this monthly program and turn it into not just
a quarterly program, but an EVENT! Each event had to have an environment
that really meant something to me. It might have been something I enjoyed
as a kid or now as an adult.
What happens
when you start paying attention to those wonderful times in your past
or what you really enjoy today and integrate them into your business?
You create magnificent, FUN, inviting programs. If you’ve been
following your business path, doing what you love, how can it get any
better? By looking deeper inside and paying attention to those inner
messages.
You begin
like this. Simply start writing down those experiences or environments
that bring warmth, giggles or excitement to your heart from childhood
to now.
Think back to what you really enjoyed as a kid. Maybe it was books,
a love for animals, or those magnificent salt-water fish in your aquarium.
What puts that smile on your face when you think of something you have
enjoyed from your past or in the present? How exciting would it be to
combine that special environment with a program you created?
Here are
a few examples.
Things I enjoyed
as a kid: boating, riding the train to my grandparents
Things I enjoy now: hot tea in the afternoon, high tea, and a cabin
in the woods
One of my programs
is now integrating all of these things with separate events.
One event will take to the rails on a train similar to the one I rode
to my grandparent’s house when I was a child. It will also be
in my favorite time of year. I’m so excited I can barely stay
focused on my daily routine and my energy feels like a giddy kid. Another
event will combine with an afternoon tea.
Here’s a bonus.
By offering what you enjoy – it becomes your BRAND. Do I want
to be known as the Chief Executive Kid of business and marketing fun?
YOU BET! How do you want to be known?
Copyright ©
Beth Woodward, Marketing On The Playground™
Beth Woodward, CPCC,
CEK (Chief Executive Kid) is the creator of the popular Marketing On
The Playground Program, Women's "Brain" -Storming On The Playground
Program, and the "My Way" Marketing Plan. Find out more about
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