Friday, December 5, 2008

Fun Friday --- Day 3

Day 3

Today was a day to spend a few minutes on the blog--- we have an education in front of us ;-). There are so many tools, and gadgets to play around with, so, we hope, that over the course of our 60 Day Challenge, we'll get better and the blog will look nicer.

Check out the You Tube videos to the right of the page--- Look for the SIFA Choir (http://www.sifachoir.org/). It's a most amazing video that will likely touch your heart as it has ours. The SIFA Choir toured America this past summer, raising funds to build a new orphanage and school for them in Uganda. Most of them are orphans, vastly affected by the AIDS epidemic.

You can also view the song by going to http://www.togetherwecanchangetheworld.com/TWCCTWSong.aspx. All proceeds for downloading the song go to the kids.

As for our day out and about as Boot Campers:

Handed out an official invitation card to friend spoken to earlier in week and who'd already gotten an email from us the day we spoke with her.

We gave follow-up calls to our neighbor, and to two of the people we met last night at the Mall. We left messages for them and will call again. Another neighbor ended up not getting home, so, we'll check in with them this weekend.

We went to visit with a very nice woman at our property management company. Big Z spoke with her and she was so kind to give him her undivided attention, as she always does. She was happy to take his information and will look at it this weekend. She'd use $2000 to pay of debt, go back to school for photography, and to help her younger sister pay for her college.

We went back to the bike shop. Big Z approached the man who has been helping us shop for the right bike, tonight, as a business man vs. a consumer. This guy is also a very nice, helpful, and gentle. He also gave Big Z undivided attention, and became quite amused with his presentation. He commented on how Big Z gave a nice close: May we give you a call on Monday or on Tuesday to see what you thought of my site?

He said that it sounds like "they" are doing a good job of training him in sales and what a wonderful program it sounded like to help kids. He'd had prior sales training, and so was familiar with a lot of styles, and he uses some, but mostly he helps his customers get what they want.

We told him about the business partnership program, and its renewed form that the Campers are working on now, and that it may be something he would like to consider as he views the information. We also told him that Ginny is setting aside the $25K that she offered to non-profits in order to create seed money for kids with ideas for generating income to donate to good causes. This is fantastic (Ginny told us this on one of the daily calls).

For him, he'd spend that $2000. As for $2000 extra a month? Spend more. Get bills. Increase the quality of his life. Upgrade his lifestyle.

Sounds good to us!

He asked Big Z what he would do with the money. Big Z answered, "I'd get a new bike, and save the rest."

Big Z called two of his Aunts. One wasn't home so he left a message. The other Aunt was home and she gave him her attention while letting her dinner sit a bit and get cold (what a nice Auntie she is). Though she knew that Big Z had his own business, she didn't know about the Reality Boot Camp, nor had she ever heard Big Z talk with her too much about it. Tonight she knows he's turning professional. He did a very good job talking with her.

She said she would buy more jerky for her dogs (she has quite a few cats and dogs). With an extra $2000/month, she said she would be able to relax since she would have extra money for bills. She'll review Big Z's info and we'll call her next Thursday.

It was getting late into the evening, and we had to seek out more folks to share World Changer and Together We Can Change the World with. We went to our local Kmart--- it was GREAT, 'cause not only did we get to talk with three nice young men, but we got EXERCISE! Big Z was a bit high-energy after our salad, split pea soup and tortilla with goat cheese dinner ;-).

The three young men were Cruisin' Kmart. They were there because they had a Sweater Party later in the evening, and one of the guys didn't have a sweater to wear. They were super sweet to stop and talk with us as we interrupted their cruisin'.

All three chimed they would pay off their college loans, and one said he had tools to pay off 'cause now that he's a diesel mechanic, he had to invest in about $20K worth of tools for the trade. They all said they would save money if they had $2000/month.

As we left the guys to their hunt for a good looking sweater, we found a green basketball. Ever seen one of those? It was really interesting, and we found, it was green because it was made from recycled materials. Pretty cool. We're going to have to see if we can find on on our mall!

Then, as we raced up and down the aisles for excercise, holding hands and smiling as we passed all the bright colors, Big Z said, "That was fun!" I asked him, "What was fun?" He said, "Talking with those guys. It was easy and I liked it." That's great feedback from my young business man ;-).

Everyone we spoke to gave us their contact information and were very nice. We have given them all e-cards and thanked them for their time.

The ready made e-cards in our back office are really good. We don't use them cookie-cutter style, though, but instead, we tailor them to each person we've spoken with. It's been a savings of time, and it's given some good ideas. Thank you, Ginny, for creating the letters and information. And, thank you to the Team that has created the E-card templates. The photos are just stunning.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

COOL! GOOD FOR YOU!!!

Thank you for following me!

Jewel

Big Z and his Mom said...

Thanks, Jewel. It's a pleasure!