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It's been a while since I wrote a blog, so I wanted to take this time to share my progress ...
We've launched The Fintech Virtual Lunch website. Thats up and running, and I've held two meetings now for my charter, with a third coming up tomorrow. Register here. We just put out a press release about my community charter - it's available on EIN Presswire News
The StartupBus trip is rapidly approaching, and I am beating the bushes to wrangle up the funds to support me on the journey. So far I've raised almost $1,000, but I need double that to cover my expenses for the trip. If you'd like to help, please visit my Go Fund Me page.
So now we have all the housekeeping out of the way, that's the different things I am doing to pull myself up and out of this pandemic induced mess I have gotten myself into. I'm doing a lot of things to get out of the hole, but my efforts have not been enough -- I need to manifest
With almost everything I have done in my career I have developed it from just an idea or concept. I find the thing I want to make happen, then I focus on my energies on it and will it into being. With this new organization I am focused on building something, a community. But I can't do this alone, I'm not getting the uptake I'd like for this project so I need to direct more energy at it to make it happen. I need to bring more people into it to make it prosper.
But in the interim I also need to find another gig. I need to find something to bring in some cash flow while I build the community. I am not happy unless I have a mountain in front of me to climb, a project to create, a cause to support, or a campaign to promote. And boy do I need the money, I'm behind and the collectors call every day. It's really hard to talk about the future of money when I don't have enough cash to pay my bills, the pandemic has ruined me.
But I know money is always a temporary thing, more will come. So I continue to look for a position that will utilize my skill sets. I've been putting out proposals but no opportunity has come as of yet. I am somewhat taken aback when I spend hours putting together proposals and I get a one sentence email reply, but that's business - I can't take these thing personally.
I am a man without a country, an artist without a subject, unfulfilled and feeling like a bit of a fraud. I write and talk about world finances and yet haven't been able to put a business together to sustain myself. I need to find something quickly, but I don't want to be desperate.
I'm writing this in the hopes that the right person finds it and we can somehow work together and benefit each other in business. I'm an innovative marketing generalist, I am a master of none. I don't want to start a race to the bottom, but I am cost effective, deliver the goods, and have the skill sets necessary to perform traditional marketing and modern digital campaigns.
I have access to every type of digital marketing platform services that might be necessary to fulfill the campaigns, and can function in every aspect from ideation to finalization. I can write, sketch, create graphics, build websites and know more about fintech than you want to hear. And, I have a deep and wide network of professional fintech people that surround me.
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So how am I going to make this happen, what is the outcome going to be. I'm getting tired of living in this state so I have to break through. I'm unfulfilled so I'm going to continue to push. If you are in my network and have grown tired of my posts - it's not going to stop --
Every position, opportunity and role I have had in my life I got through my network. And I don't think thats going to change now at 62. I may have to push a little harder, be a little bit louder or pull more guerrilla marketing stunts to get noticed but hey I'm willing to do what it takes. I'm not one to shy away from work, I don't mind sweat equity but it doesn't pay bills.
I've never done a fundraiser before using a platform like Go Fund Me, I've been posting in social channels about the fundraiser and was surprised to recently be told to "get a job and quit begging" and "why don't you sell some of the stuff you have listed on Marketplace?".
Yes and yes, and yes I am doing all that and more. If you have ever met me you know I am not satisfied with the ordinary, you understand that I am not satisfied with the technology they released today. I am looking way beyond that. I am by no means, your standard lot.
I've never really been criticized before for asking for help, but I really haven't had much practice at it. I guess some people find it repulsive, maybe they don't know or care about my struggle. All I know was it didn't feel good and that is all the more impetus to raise myself back up and get back up on the horse. I just need a vehicle, that has needs, to do it with ...
So that's where I am - searching for that product, person, or platform that needs promotion. I have a concept I want to leverage helping C-level professionals raise their social profiles. But I need the opportunity to do it. If you need to reinvent yourself, have a new product you want to take to market, or founded an early stage fintech startup, and need a marketing help.
So I'm going to close with the same thing I opened with. We've launched The Fintech Virtual Lunch website. Thats up and running, and I've held two meetings now for my charter, with a third coming up tomorrow. Register here. We just put out a press release about my community charter - it's available on EIN Presswire News
The StartupBus trip is rapidly approaching, and I am beating the bushes to wrangle up the funds to support me on the journey. So far I've raised almost $1,000, but I need double that to cover my expenses for the trip. If you'd like to help, please visit my Go Fund Me page.