Yee ha! Had our first meeting today at Fina Bar & Grill and it was brilliant if we don't say so ourselves! Most of us arrived pretty frazzled (Helen and I included) as it was kids' first day of term (and school and nursery in general in Helen's kids' case!) Touch wood all went smoothly and the coffee and muffins Mandy at Fina provided certainly helped ease our furrowed brows.
We were delighted by the number of ladies who turned up - way beyond our expectations and it was lovely to put some faces to names. The atmosphere was just what we wanted i.e. all very informal but everyone still had a chance to talk about their business, what stage they were at and provided a bit of background about themselves. This then led to some really interesting conversations among the group and it was great to hear about everyone's ventures. We rounded off by agreeing that everyone had found the meeting really useful as it was nice to talk to like-minded people, make valuable contacts and realise that we're not alone with some of the concerns and questions that we inevitably have when setting up and establishing our businesses and that help and advice is never far away. We also agreed that a future session from Sarah Walters on how using social networking sites can help your business would be really beneficial - watch this space for details.
Helen and I are so glad that the meeting was productive and enjoyable as we admit we were quite nervous so, thank you ladies for all your kind words and roll on next week at Caffe Latte! Exciting news there too as I had a call from the Wilmslow Express this afternoon and they're going so send a photographer along to take a photo to accompany some editorial they're running on us. Note to self, full face of make up required.
Right, off to write a newsletter now and catch up on emails. Life? What life!
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