A Ramble of a blog

So I had planned to be blog crazy this past week after starting my blog, but I’ve been busy working – always a good thing especially at times like these, but it got me thinking about how being a Director of an SME requires many skills. As everyone knows (though not until you undertake it quite how much) when your involved with a relatively small and young company you have to do pretty much everything, so I have been busy, marketing, negotiating, tendering, selling, networking and, oh yeah working this week, but you have to remember the big picture and all these tasks go into the large melting pot that is our business.

I quite enjoy most of the tasks to be honest, I was at a meeting the other day discussing some consultancy work and I mentioned that I enjoy meeting with clients or people in general and it was met with disbelief, an IT person who actually enjoys human contact! But it’s true I do enjoy meeting with people and always enjoy chatting with clients, customers and even sales people on the phone, my girlfriend thinks this is so funny how I allow them to run through their best sales pitch before declining the offer of a life time.

Anyway, a lot of this rambling is building towards a question (believe it or not) – which part of business which you do not consider your main skill or service is your favourite part? This could be sales, marketing, finance or any other aspect of the business.

Of course my favourite part of any project is either the start when we win the project or the end when we finish the project and I get to invoice them, at either stage it’s when we get money and that is always my favourite part of business.