“The RoseBouquet”

As with any other business, you can spend a lot of time planning and preparing and setting up the office, but eventually you need to do some publicity and advertising to get your clients or students to come in. That’s where I am right now.

Last week with my one student went quite well. He was fortunate in that I could focus on his specific questions and trouble-shooting problems. I owe him one more session because he was committed to leaving Friday for a conference in Alberta. Maybe we’ll fit that in this week yet.

Next week may not be the best for a full five-day course because that week ends in Good Friday, a holiday. However, I’m doing my best to catch up on emails and unfinished projects and to do some serious advertising. Except that on my current budget, this has to be mostly free stuff, like taking flyers door to door, and putting up posters in public places.

I’m also praying for students as that seems to help most when I have any financial needs. I’m confident that the same God who can prompt gifts when in need, can also prompt people to sign up for my computer basics courses.

Meantime, I’m hoping more of those contractors I’ve called will show up to do their measuring and preparations for quotations. What better time than this week and next?

There’s these translation jobs to do too. They are time-consuming puzzles, as often the photocopies or scans are not very clear. At my rates it is hardly worth the effort.

I’ve been seriously thinking of adding some lines to my web pages on that, to say that I’m giving that up. — So-o, just now I went online to do a quick search and see if I’m still one of only three offering this. Hey! I’m listed at the top, but there are about six other sites with people offering to translate this obsolete handwritten script! So I’ve paused here in mid-paragraph to change that page on my genealogy site, and listed the six other places potential clients can check. Whew! That’s good.