National award! And Press release
Well, it’s been all go since my ‘Month of Implementation’. I had the busiest December I’ve ever had (almost 4 times more gigs than previous best year). Had a relaxing time at various family festivities between Christmas and New Year, and found out that I’d won a National award for Entrepreneur of the month in December. I was selected from over 4000 members of the Entrepreneurs Circle and it seems that my ramblings in this blog was what caught their eye.
Here’s a picture of me receiving the award from Nigel Botterill.
Damian Surr and Nigel Botterill
And here’s the rest of my winnings.
Prize booty
Engraved glass award
I left the presentation ceremony wondering how to make the most of the award. Winning it felt great, but unless I do something with it it’s just a short lived good feeling and a pile of stuff in the office.
Publicity was what I needed!
I wrote my first ever ‘press release’ at the end of last week. Now there’s a weird thing to do! Writing in the third person about how great you are … much oddness!
Local Papers
Yesterday, the story was in two different local newspapers. Luckily, both reporters were skilled enough to ask me a few more questions and completely rewrote the thing based on my answers.
I have no idea how many of the other papers I sent the message to may run with it.
I had to do a quick patch up job on www.gingermagic.com as it was too embarrassingly old to be seen as it was. It’s now slightly less embarrassing, but is still in urgent need of a total overhaul. It’s on it’s way, it’s on it’s way!
PS iPhone app is going very well. I have a fully functional version of it on my phone. Even done a bit of filming of me performing it to make a video trailer. The developer is great. I’m slowing it down at the moment as I have been spending time on Press releases. Back to the app!
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Erm, nice bloke BUT I taught him everything ! 🙂 I want half his wealth.