With every new challenge in life there is allways a price to pay. Whenever I tell people that I’m travelling from Bluff to Cape Reinga and back calling on every business and collecting their business cards they are amazed. People say to me how long will it take you and why do you want to do it. I’m doing it because it has never been done before and I love the challenge doing things no one else has ever done before but of course there is always a price to pay. In my case its a 4 letter word called work. The easy part of this journey is calling on all the busineses and picking up their cards the hard part is sitting in my office all day loading all the cards and photos on to my computer. It is not uncommon for me to get up at 3 am in the morning and work on my computer until 6 am and then go for a swim for an hour. After breakfast I’m back on the computer again. If you browse through the SH1 Directories you will see pages and pages of stuff and I have designed over many thousands of hours. I am already working 7 days a week with very little sleep. One day I worked it out that after paying all those who are currently making an income from SH1 Business Directories and if paid myself just $15 hour I would need to get $20 for every business I visit and load onto the internet.
Sorry folks no more Photos
The answer of course is to employ somone to do the computer work but I cant do that until I increase my income. What I have decided to do is stop putting photos online for each town until I get sponsors for each town. If people want me to promote their town then they will have to buy advertising on the SH1 Business directories or make a voluntary donation it is as simple as that. If you want me to continue writing travellers guide stories and put photos on this blog then you will have to advertise with me or send me a donation to pay for the cost. I have one more week on the road before Christmas and I will not be going on the road again until I find some people that believe enough in what I am doing to support me.
Donations
If you woud like to see me make it to Cape Reinga and back and promote each town along the way and write a book about it all then please make a donation ito my bank account with the National Bank 060 889 0257897 00
or post it to Ron & Margaret Bishop 132 Gleniti Road Timaru
Merry Christmas to you all and a very Prosperous new year
Ron E Bishop
Motivational Business Coach