Starting A New Business Scary or Thrilling?

I was delivering a Financial Planning workshop yesterday for Nottinghamshire Business Venture in conjunction with the Business Link New Start Up Service. www.nbv.co.uk and www.businesslink.co.uk


One of the delegates, a wonderful guy whose business idea is teaching team working skills through outward bound courses, unbeknown to me spent much of the workshop thinking about how scary the idea of going into business is, although at the same time he was very excited about the opportunity.

He later came to chat with me and told me that there had been a particular point of my presentation at which he had completely switched from the 'scary' thoughts to how thrilling it was going to be. That point had been when for some reason I broke away from the financial speak and started to talk about the fact that the first few years of struggling to get my business started and trying to get over the hurdles, although difficult and exhuasting, were the best years of my life. I called those years 'character building' years, but that this character building had led me to help other businesses such as the ones right in front of me yesterday.

This all had come to pass because the night before, my web strategist, Kirsty Farelly had uploaded to my website a video of 20 years of television appearances I had made. These included the BBC, ITV, GMTV and a show I had partnered with Marks and Spencers for which was filmed and appeared on The Clothes Show. As I clicked on the 'view' button the memories of all those fantastic years came flooding back. These are video clips that had been retrieved from old tapes 20 years or so ago (your ought to see the varying hairsyles!). I was amazed at how emotional I had become watching the video uploaded to my website.

Well it's a sight for sore eyes, but I hope for any new start businesses it gives you a little hope. All the TV appearances and PR came very easy - it was just a matter of picking up the phone and writing a few letters (they'd be emails today!) and being very, very persistent.

Enjoy the viewing http://www.the-alternative-network.com/.

Ann