January 23, 2007
It's a Small World
I've been in consumer products for most of the past 10 years. Beverage, high end hard goods (well, that doesn't look right when you write it out) and now mostly imports. Three very different product bases. And almost none of the same customers.
Most folks in this industry stick to one thing. You network and develop a lot of flexability. Me? Oh hell, why in the world would I make it easy on myself? If I can do one, then I should be able to do any of them! Yeah, not the way most "normal" people look at things.
So far, it's worked. Kinda. Oh, it's tough. While they are all three based on the same premise, there are very different ways of going to market. And it can get very aggitating, to say the least.
Anyway, I don't know many people in the industry I'm in right now. I'm a fresh faced newby. I'll be proving myself to my customers for a few years yet. And I'll just say right now, I'm about sick and tired of being told "Well, you don't know how it works...." Yeah. But I know how it SHOULD work.
Oops, got sort of off track there, sorry.
Anyway, I heard from one of the girls I used to work with many moons ago. Haven't talked to her in a coons age so we were emailing back and forth, catchin' up.
Seems she is in the same damned industry I am. AND is going to be in NYC at Toy Fair. AND she has connections.
Now, I wish I could tell you how weird that is. Seriously. And what a great help that is going to be. I have someone who KNOWS me that I can talk with about this stuff. Someone who knows the ins and outs of this crazy game I'm playing. Somone who can give me the straight scoop on some of my customers. How to get their attention. How to get their cooperation.
It's a smaller world than I realized, and mine just got a little brighter. A double bubble, as it were. Getting to catch up with someone I really like AND getting some help with work. I'm one lucky gal!!
I've been wondering, and perhaps you can explain it, since you now have a proper reference. Exactly how many days are in a "coon's age?"
Posted by: Ogre at January 23, 2007 03:05 PM