Puzzle

As I started this puzzle on Saturday morning, a friend of my three daughters was helping me sort the edges out of the box. After a bit of work, I asked her if she’d had a French macaron before as shown on the box. She hadn’t. I wasn’t about to let her miss out.

On a Mission

We set out on a mission to search for some. We walked to the French cafe around the corner. No macarons yet. We googled for nearby bakeries. One just over the river had pumpkin and apple ones ready and available, so we took off to get the real thing.

The flaky crusts disappeared in seconds in our mouths, leaving just the cream filling to savor for a bit longer. The experience of having the real thing rather than looking at it on the puzzle box was fun, exciting, and sweet!

Experiences

That’s what I think of my NYC trip last week. I’ve met all these fantastic people online for months and months, but they are these tiny pictures that sit in their own boxes waiting to find other profiles that fit.

The ‪#‎periscopesummit‬ event was full of panel discussions, presentations, parties and smaller meet-ups. The meet-ups, IMO, were where the pieces of the puzzle found each other. It was fun, exciting, and sweet!

The Pieces of a Puzzle

Here I am a few days later sorting through the colors and shapes to piece this puzzle together reflecting on the last few months of my business. This whole idea of online entrepreneurs being the pieces of a much bigger puzzle that we can’t quite see is the perfect analogy. We know there’s a bigger vision. Someone put a pic of it on the box, but finding how it fits together takes so much longer.

We’ll eventually get there, though. And then we’ll toss the pieces back into the box and start another puzzle.


Meet the Author, Sally Hendrick

As an international, keynote speaker, Social Media Examiner contributor, and Founder of Social Media Traffic School, Sally specializes in target market research, marketing funnels, digital courses, and Facebook advertising strategies.

With 25 years experience as an actuarial statistician, Sally has been turning statistics into stories for companies to adjust and tweak their marketing programs to be effective. While working with solopreneurs and small businesses through her online academy of classes to help them plan their marketing strategies using social media, Sally also helps medium and large size companies create strategic marketing plans and train marketing staff to carry out company objectives. Her methods are used to successfully increase return on investment with social media, as traditional marketing tactics are bringing increasingly less return.

Sally resides in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and 3 daughters. Message Sally on Facebook to get in touch.

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