Wednesday, March 06, 2002
Today was the first day of the JPL/NASA High Tech conference 2002 News Releases - JPL to Hold High-Tech Conference for Small Business . It’s an Opportunity fair for small businesses. They have lots of government agencies and private businesses together to try and find small disadvantaged and minority business to contract work out to.
At first I was intimidated by the idea of going into that arena. We put together our business cards and a flyer and I posted our website. I was up late getting it all together.
We started talking with the companies and even talking with some of the other small businesses. We also talked with our competition. Most were in business longer than we were with more resources. That didn’t bother me though.
I’m digging the workshops and getting contact information for the agencies. But the most valuable information was about marketing.
Tomorrow morning I’m going to a General Services Administration (GSA) workshop to see about getting us some contracts with them. It’s a month full of networking.
I’m getting it now. The whole thing is going to be about marketing. One of the speakers said “You’re in the business of marketing yourself to another person.”
At first I was intimidated by the idea of going into that arena. We put together our business cards and a flyer and I posted our website. I was up late getting it all together.
We started talking with the companies and even talking with some of the other small businesses. We also talked with our competition. Most were in business longer than we were with more resources. That didn’t bother me though.
I’m digging the workshops and getting contact information for the agencies. But the most valuable information was about marketing.
Tomorrow morning I’m going to a General Services Administration (GSA) workshop to see about getting us some contracts with them. It’s a month full of networking.
I’m getting it now. The whole thing is going to be about marketing. One of the speakers said “You’re in the business of marketing yourself to another person.”
