That's It - I'm all touted out!

I've been touting for votes all over the place. My sister has been working on her 500+ facebook friends to get them to vote from every phone and email address they possess. My auntie has been onto her friends and relatives in Canada; my mum has covered her Reiki class; my husband has hassled work and old army contacts; I've emailed Scott Mills and made a complete pest of myself on Facebook, Linked In and Twitter. And we've got a request on the astonmitchell site too.

It is in the hands of fate and the gods of entrepreneurship now. I am all touted out.

Now please will you all think positive thoughts and hope that I've done enough to win?

Thanks to everyone who has voted for me. Whatever the outcome it's been a great experience. I've met some lovely people and got back in touch with lots more lovely people by asking them to vote. I even managed to fit in a holiday!

Favourite quote of the week 'Im a human being not a human doing'

must remember that one!

:0)

Claire

Nearly caught up!

I'm almost caught up with work after being off - phew! Lots of orders through astonmitchell today, wonder if it's because it's raining and everyone is indoors on the internet! We have a returning customer from the USA who seems to love our Italian Fontana Contarini range as he keeps coming back for more. I think he's getting braver each time!

Board meeting with Kate next week I think - we're trying to work out how much to spend on Google Adwords - it's a fine line between spending too much and too little! Orders are noticeably affected either way but sometimes the profit on the additional orders is wiped out by the extra Google spend. Analysis required!

Finally got my other new website up and running. Mark Foster of VTS Design built the astonmitchell site for us - I maintain and update it day to day, and I am always impressed by his attitude. I asked him to build my Claire Mitchell Consultancy site and he's come up trumps again. http://www.clairemitchell.co.uk is looking good - very modern and very friendly, just what I wanted. It's focused on Social Enteprise marketing although I already have clients who are 'for profit' too. Hopefully I'll get lots of enquiries through, I do like working with SEs, always very interesting.

Voting closes tomorrow night and I have everyone I know, and everyone THEY know trying to get more votes for me - I really want to win! Fingers crossed !

More tomorrow!

Back to work after lovely hols

I'm back from Somerset and on a last ditch push to get more votes. I've hassled EVERYONE I know, including Scott Mills and his team to see if I can get them to vote for me. The feedback I've had has been really positive but I'm up against Esther and the might of Durham Uni's marketing department so I'd better get hassling some more!

Astonmitchell was busy while I was away. I was in touch via my new iphone the whole time, so I didn't really miss much of what was going on. I have to say I preferred my old Blackberry but it died on me, so I thought I'd try out what Apple have to offer.

I'll be on full PR throttle next week once I'm back to work properly. I want to get in touch with some of the daytime TV shows to see if there is any angle they'd like to work with us on.

So - voting closes on Sunday and I've done my best to get as many as possible. If you're reading this and you don't know me, then please do vote for me as I really want to win and I've worked extremely hard to get this far!

Got to go as I've got a toddler looking expectantly at me - think she wants her tea.

More over the weekend!

Claire Mitchell interview at the Entrepreneurs' Forum's Annual Conference, Inspired6