My first client!!

Yoo hooo! I got my first client last week. I ran a couple of errands for a co-worker of mine and it turned out great. She was able to get some things off her to do list and Gift of Time was more than happy to help her out. I just hope that more people see the value in not having to spend an entire day doing errands. Think of how much time you could have if you didn't have to run to the grocery store or dry cleaner or whatever other annoying thing is sitting on your to do list.

I have consistently been getting hits on the website so that is pretty good considering that all of my marketing up to this point has been grass roots, mostly just handed out my business card and letting people know what I am doing. I am still working with the printer to do the brochures, I never would have imagined what goes into printing one little brochure. Still waiting to get one more edit on a word that was missing and then we will be good to go. So my next marketing effort is going to be to hand out brochures in several more affluent neighborhoods in the area plus leave them in all the local real estate offices. Hopefully this will generate at least 2-3 new clients, I will keep you posted on the progress.

Oh, in addition to the above I've been very actively posting on several local message boards and networking that way as well. I'm pretty confident that I should be able to get at least 1 new client with my free forms of marketing. So much of a business like this depends on future referrals so just 1 new client could generate several new people in the future. I am hopefully going to add a testimonials page on the site as well.

So far having my own business is great but it really consumes almost all of my mind right now. I'm constantly trying to think of new ways to get the word out and how I can update the website and give myself more visibility. I guess it's always like that when you own your business.