Another talk
I was fortunate to be able to speak to another group of people last night. This was my first opportunity to do so via Zoom. I was impressed with how the whole thing worked. I have often seen interesting Zoom topics mentioned but didn’t have my technology to the standard required to partake. In a previous call, I could hear the man, but he couldn’t hear me. It is the little things that need completing to ensure everything works as it should. Genevieve gave me some tuition last week. I needed to go to settings and turn something on and she showed me how to swipe my screen to be able to speak, things I would never have known how to do on my own, and on Monday night, the convenor of yesterday’s talk gave me a practice run as well. I am still not 100 per cent confident that I will get it right the next time I need it, but at least I am way more likely to succeed than I would have been, even a week ago.
I was grateful for the opportunity to speak to these like-minded people yesterday. I do feel that I have been given my spiritual information so that I can share it and I know one of my soul purposes is ‘’write so that others may understand.’’ Even though I am speaking, I am still sharing what I have written about in my books, and on a personal level, any opportunity for more book sales is great.
I have mentioned before about how difficult I find marketing. When I worked for the newspaper, there was always friendly banter between the ad reps, tasked with finding advertisers to support the paper, versus us, the reporters, writing to provide a product for the ad reps to sell. They didn’t see it that way and instead believed they were providing the revenue for us to write in the first place. No amount of dialogue could convince them that if we didn’t write, there would be nothing to draw in the advertisers. But the reality was that we did need each other. They needed us to provide the stories and we needed them to find the revenue.
I was always pleased that I was the writer and not one of the saleswomen. To me, that would be such a difficult job and I remember them often bemoaning the fact that their targets were constantly rising, being expected to sell more and more advertising for the same bonuses. That is fine when the economy is thriving and people have money to spare, but I don’t think it would be so easy in today’s world. A lot of people are hurting. Their mortgages are rising, food is rising and I read an article yesterday where petrol is expected to hit $3 per litre by Christmas. I remember the outcry when it reached $2. But seriously, how are people supposed to cope with these price hikes.
I am sure that many people see buying a book as a luxury in this current climate but that is fine because the books will still be there when things pick up. I just need to keep plugging away and be grateful for any sales I do get.