Its funny when your picture keeps on popping up in the paper, the coverage of the whole event has been pretty high profile, so another article keeps on appearing when i'm not expecting it.
Its been great for business, and for my general credibility as a new business, my patients seem to like it; I just happened to bump into one of them in the butchers and she proceeded to tell everyone in there who i was and how i'd been shortlisted for "that competition" , a tad embarrasing, but its all good.
Its coming up to the first anniversary of my shop opening and i'm thinking of ways to advertise around it. Again, the competition helps, but the anniversary falls the day before the winners are announced so I will have to hedge my bets and proclaim myself as finalist and not winner (yet)
My staff have been absolute stars in getting people to vote for me, no-one leaves the practice without a brief on how to vote, lets just hope it pays off.
I was really pleased this week when someone came in for an eye examination who was another woman with her own business, with small children like me. We had a really good chat and shared networking ideas, she left with a bundle of my business cards to take to her next networking group,(which i have been invited to join). This is what i love about the north-east. I've lived lots of places, but i doubt it would have happened like that anywhere else.
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