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Work Life Balance – what does it mean?

November 23, 2015 in Travel by RonSue

Work life balance, what does it mean to us?

One of the many advantages of a Network Marketing business is the freedom or work life balance.. Recently we were invited to our nephew’s 40 th birthday, which was being help about 5 hours’ drive from our place. As we love to attend family events we decided to go. As it was at Bargara, a small beach side town just outside Bundaberg we decided to stay for a week of rest and relaxation.

As we can work from anywhere as long as we have our phone and internet connection, this was not a problem workwise. Another upside of our business is that we didn’t have to do any work if we didn’t want to. We just love our residual income, so while we had a very relaxing week on the beach we still were paid.

Every morning we woke up, had a coffee while we read for an hour or so, then we headed of for a walk on the beach. It is a very pleasant way to start the day, walking on the each of the ocean.

One day we decide to try a River Cruise on the Bundy Belle. It is a fully restored classic river ferry. Along the way we had a commentary telling us all the history of Bundaberg. Including the early history of the sugar industry, the rum factory, Bundaberg’s culture and history.

Another day was a chance to spend the morning chatting with friends over coffee and cake. One of the friends was a lady who we have been Facebook friends with for years before we met her in person, now any time we are both in the same place we meet for coffee. Both our friend work for themselves so they also have a great work, life balance.

The rest of the time was spent just reading, walking on the beach and spending time with family. One of the things we enjoy while we are away is trying different places to eat. We like trying out the local pub’s as they usually have good meals at reasonable prices. We ate several time at the Bargara Beach Hotel, we were advised not to eat there by one of our relatives but decided to try it anyway. We are glad we did, our meals were really good and the price was also good. Another advantage was that they offered a 20% discount for seniors, there is a benefit in being a bit older. We don’t have any photos of the meals, we are still trying to remember to take photos.

Ron and Sue

The lesson – Don’t make assumptions and jump to conclusions.

September 16, 2015 in Business / Relationship Marketing by RonSue

Assumptions -The lesson – Don’t make assumptions and jump to conclusions.

A little while ago I sent a ‘nice to meet you’ card to a new acquaintance, naturally in the hope of strengthening our association. She sat next to Sue and me at a business training seminar and during the day indicated that she would like to know more about what we did and maybe opening a Send Out Cards account. So naturally I wanted to follow through and explore what we could potentially do together.

Not wanting to be pushy and also allowing time for the impression of receiving an unexpected card in the mail to settle in, I allowed some time before attempting to make contact with her (also hoping she might make contact first). When I rang I learned that she was away on business for the next week. Obviously I would have to leave communication until her return.

In the meantime her card was returned, marked unknown and return to sender. I checked and that was the address I had written down for her.

Her address wasn’t on her business card and I remembered that when I asked for her address she was hesitant to supply it. It seemed apparent to me that although she was being nice and appearing friendly at the seminar, she really didn’t want to explore the possibility of us doing business, otherwise why would she have returned my mail? So feeling a little foolish and also wondering how I read things so wrong, I threw the card aside and dismissed any thought of further follow through.

A couple of weeks later I chanced upon the card and this got me thinking about how I could so misjudge a person’s character. I had to phone; I had to find out why she returned the card.

A warm and friendly greeting was followed by easy conversation. I quickly decided I had better reframe my question. So instead I stated I had a returned card and that I must have written the address down wrong. I had! I had written 123 instead of 124. Whew, it would have been really uncomfortable if I had continued on with my assumption.

A mutual friend who knows us well and was also at the seminar had rightly assumed we would send her a card and asked her what she thought of it. As she hadn’t received one, this caused her to wonder about us and our efforts to follow through as well. Fortunately we had a good laugh and are now moving forward.

So if things appear different to what you expected, don’t make assumptions and jump to conclusions, instead make contact, check it out, it could be that you have it all wrong!

Ron and Sue

Christmas Cards for Business Clients

September 8, 2015 in Christmas / Relationship Marketing by RonSue

Do You send Christmas Cards to clients?

We were talking with a friend this morning and the subject of Christmas cards came up and just how many of you are in the same boat as our friend. She bought a special card for someone a couple of weeks ago, but it is still sitting on her table waiting to be written in, then addressed and stamped and most importantly walked down to the post box.

Like so many of us she has the best of intentions, but things keep happening. Your friends, colleagues and customers unfortunately can’t open and see your intentions. Don’t buy cards you fail to send.

But why not make life easy?

Send Out Cards has a convenient and easy to use system that lets you send that Christmas card or any other card, like a birthday, anniversary or thank you card without the hassle of pen, paper, stamps, envelopes and mailboxes. Sending a card has never been so easy! With just the click of a button, you can choose your custom card, add a personal photo, write your message and click send. Send Out Cards then print, address and stamp the envelope, insert and mail the physical card for you.

As business people don’t miss out on the opportunity available this Christmas to let your contacts, clients and customers know just how important they are.

Ron and Sue