My Best Summer Ever of 2014: Analogy for An Entrepreneur
It had been almost a month since schools opened and news from PAG-ASA ended summer officially. But I can't help look back at the summer that just passed with special regard and soft spot in my heart. It was my best summer ever. It was the summer of 2014.
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Admit it, it isn't always that we find strength to push ourselves from our comfort zones. It just feels so convenient and secured to do that which we are most familiar with--- no questions, no doubts and most of all, no worries. But just last summer, I once again found myself stepping up to try something new and taking action to actualize it. And finally, making a turnaround into something real from a mere aspiration, just a dream.
The last time I did the same was back in 2012 when I formally registered my biz. But this time around, I knew and felt it was much different. Getting into the internet as a publisher for the first time was like venturing into an unknown space. It also ushers in a totally different experience as your actions do not affect only yourself, but a wider public audience as well.
I've long been wanting to bring my business online with its own website and to level up promo efforts via social media marketing with the highly visited facebook site. But the downside is, I'm neither the hard-core techie who understands all those HTML computer programming languages, nor the computer savvy Gen Z-er who is much hooked with the web that navigating through facebook, tweeter, google+, pinterest, linkedin, and other social media sites seems just so much like a simple task as malling or strolling by the park perhaps. At the least, I consider myself a computer literate person with quick learning abilities and above average mental aptitude. If these assets alone would suffice to compensate, then I thought I can also do internet marketing just like others. From the overall view of things, it appeared to me the world wide web was the ultimate frontier to conquer.
And so I tried and carried on. It was the mere thought of seeing my future blog entries and business website that pushed, pushed and pushed me. I had no choice then but to do lots of googling, reading and learning from relevant websites to help me put pieces of the big puzzle together. Sometimes, it was also a frustrating hit and miss thing....trying out a new site and finishing on a dead-end, then try again. It was totally a self-learned endeavor. But amazingly, one click just led to another, and another, until all my questions were answered and my thoughts were cleared on how to go about with things. Then finally, the full picture came into view.
And now from the time I started trying around March this year, I finally went live with my own Facebook business page last May 17, posted my first own blog entry at Go Entrepinay dated May 29, and published my events marketing website last June 28. Best of all, I did all these without spending a cent! Quite trivial they may seem, but these outputs give so much sense of accomplishment to a humble and regular netizen like me without any high-flung computer expertise at all. Couldn't believe it? Well, I really DID!
Thinking back, what a co-incidence that all these nice developments happened during last summer. And as we know, most people look forward to summer for good things to come their way as all the time and the world are theirs during this sunniest season of the year. Summer means breaking away from homeworks, fun late-night hanging out with friends, finding new love, travelling to far places, finding new discoveries, and still a whole lot of possibilities one can think of!
But for me, I remember most the summer of 2014 as the time I rose above myself and totally evolved into another new, different, but definitely, better person in the end. And this came about starting just from a dream, a try, a struggle, a learning, and finally, a reality. I guess that translates into an excellent analogy for the making of an entrepreneur.
So how about you? When was your best summer ever?
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