I had the opportunity of attending a conference recently in Orlando, Florida. It was for women entrepreneurs. In typical conference style, they had break-out sessions throughout the day on various topics. Well, during one of the break out sessions, several of the speakers who were suppose to speak on a panel type discussion didn’t show up. Well guess who was asked to fill in? That’s right, yours truly. I spoke for a few minutes on the power of pay per click advertising and then we opened the floor up to Q&A. What amazed me was there were only about 35 in attendance and the topic was Innovative Marketing Methods for your business. With so many women in attendance at this particular conference I was surprised at how low the turn out was on a topic like that! It just goes to show people don’t know what they don’t know…
The other thing I was completely amazed at was how many people leave their cell phones on while attending an hour seminar. If you are going to leave your cellphone on during a class, the least thing you can do is turn the ringer off and switch it to vibrate. It is not only disruptive and rude to the speaker, but it is disruptive and rude to the people around who are trying to listen to the speaker! Be kind - turn your cell phone off for an hour - your business will not go belly up if they can’t get in touch with you for 60 minutes!
Until next time my friends,
JoAnn
