It’s been an interesting month thus far and my carbon balancing budget will be needing a top-up for all the miles driven up to now. Changed the car on Saturday – the black beauty has gone in her convertible splendor, making way for a more sensible silver car that’s more respectful of the wonderful world we live in and which can get lots of stuff in the back. I do still use my bike for local trips, but carrying heavy water cartons on my back has been taking its toll lately. (aren’t osteopath’s expensive?)
Following another epic week, we were at the NPE (Natural Products Europe) exhibition on Sunday (my birthday) and Monday, giving tasters of Aquapax to visitors on the Marigold Health Foods stand and engaging with our trade and non-trade customers alike. I know a trade exhibition isn’t supposed to have members of the public there, but we’re all human beings first and that’s the level at which I prefer to engage with folk. It was a really encouraging show for us and some of the trade distributors we had made contact with at NTS in Brighton during March were there again, allowing a renewed acquaintance (nay ‘relationship’) to be followed-up on, which is after all how life should work.
There’s an old expression that if you genuinely love what you do, then work is something you will take pleasure from. As a ‘people person’ working with wonderful people has always been a pleasure and that’s how I felt after a couple of days working with the Marigold team. They’re a genuinely cool and friendly bunch, comfortable in their skin, which makes them fun to be around - particularly when one whips out a harmonica and starts jamming while the rest of us are clearing the stand down at the end of the day. Working in the natural products world, with knowledgeable nice people helps me relax, which proves another wise old saying – “nothing will content him who is not content with a little”.
Hot on the heels of all that exciting prospecting comes our newly revised website re-launch, which (with a bit of luck & a lot of solid effort – thank you Ian) should be going live this very evening. Isn’t it a reflection on modern life that a website revamp can keep you ‘wired’ till the early hours, processing bits of information, continually changing how you say what you say in an attempt to actually say what you mean? Even then it’s no guarantee to pass the biggest test of all – the scutiny of the ‘public’ – that’s you!
I’m getting the site ready for an anticipated flourish that’s just around the corner – I can feel it coming and it feels good. Be great to have some feedback – please be gentle, as web world can become a solitary place if visitors remain anonymous and writing for an unknown audience can be challenging.
Time for dinner – and then there’s some invoicing to be done.
With love.
