Okay, I'm going to post a quote what Carlo Ople included in his presention from his talk last Friday September 11, 2009 in Seminar room, Hall 2 of SMEX Convention Center in MOA for the Gonegosyo Youth Summit. He quoted Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari Computers, and it goes,
"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."
(I'm sure that the quote Carlo presented in his talk is much longer than this quote that I got on the net. hmmm. or could it be the same...I think.)
That quote was pretty much inspiring for me at least. It was also a good thing that I stayed for the last talk for the said convention, ok wait, it was a good thing I attended the talks from 2.30pm onwards in the convention, I learned a lot. I heard about the Gonegosyo Youth Summit just a day before the event, I decided to go alone after class, I did not invite my friends to go with me since they have plans to go see a basketball match in Araneta. And I don't think that they would go with me anyway. So it was a solo flight.
These past few months I was looking for some business opportunities, I want to have my own business, a business with a low capital, a business that I like to do, a business that will suit my personality, a business that I have a passion doing. All these time the business that I was looking for was actually under my filthy snout! Because I am my own business. Yes, you got it baby, I am my own business. Thanks to Carlo Ople, Marketing Head for the Casual Games Division of Level Up, he also do Digital Marketing Consultancy. That Carlo guy is surely is a guru. He made me see what I was looking for. Actually I was too dumb to see it. He pointed what is under my nose. There is a future under my nose! (on the background angels singing ahhhhhh. I saw the light.)
Currently I am a jobless Graphic Designer (well not really there is this one project that I will call "my break", woot woot break! Yeba! Not going to talk about it baka maunsyami.) I'm taking up Computer Programming in one of those computer schools inside the mall. hehe. I always say that I am a struggling Graphic Designer, well because I am. I have been a designer for quite awhile now. I provided my services for some small companies, because I am a sucker for the concept where one person decides to join a group, a very small company for that matter and that person grows with the company until that company becomes multi million worth, and a happy ending for all. For once I was in for that concept you know, rags to riches thing, but in my case the person who acquired the riches are those company owners I worked for and for us designers (who were supposedly part of the dream, the company grows, so do we. Not! it's just a crap!) we can share the leftovers on the plate.
For some time now I had my own website running http://www.kikomartinez.bravehost.com/, I have friendster, facebook, deviant art accounts. I was hoping that somehow I will get projects from these accounts. But I never had. I made logos, cd covers for friends and they are for free. I am happy I am capable to help them, and because of the "papuris" that I get from them, I always feel good I did a good job. hehe. Puzzled by the situation nobody would like to get my services aside from friends, thinking I had tons of accounts and they are like everywhere so people will go look for me if I just let it chill. No! That shouldn't be the case. And that is what actually I learned from Gonegosyo covention. Dapat masigasig akong nag popromote ng website ko, ng portfolio ko. I can use both facebook and friendster accounts to get projects only if I used my lagging brain in the very first place. It was an idea that I had before to promote it via social networking sites but I did not acted on it because I am so stupid and afraid. The talk which Carlo Ople had, made a huge impact to me. Fear is the main reason I do not have projects, why I do not have clients. I fear that people will have ill comments on my works, I fear that if I post my works people will mock at them, fear that I am not good enough, because of fear whenever people would ask me what is my profession is I would say 'Graphic Designer pero average designer lang ako'. I thought building my own website is a huge step to promote myself. Pero ano ang silbi ng website ko kung hindi naman ako bilib sa sarili ko. I am thankful I have real friends who appreciate my talent kahit libre sincere naman sila sa pagpuri sa akin. hahaha. And that builds my confidence. Kung wala akong clients ok lang pansamantala my friends are my biggest clients.
Cherrios to Gonegosyo. Carlo Ople you rock!
"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."
(I'm sure that the quote Carlo presented in his talk is much longer than this quote that I got on the net. hmmm. or could it be the same...I think.)
That quote was pretty much inspiring for me at least. It was also a good thing that I stayed for the last talk for the said convention, ok wait, it was a good thing I attended the talks from 2.30pm onwards in the convention, I learned a lot. I heard about the Gonegosyo Youth Summit just a day before the event, I decided to go alone after class, I did not invite my friends to go with me since they have plans to go see a basketball match in Araneta. And I don't think that they would go with me anyway. So it was a solo flight.
These past few months I was looking for some business opportunities, I want to have my own business, a business with a low capital, a business that I like to do, a business that will suit my personality, a business that I have a passion doing. All these time the business that I was looking for was actually under my filthy snout! Because I am my own business. Yes, you got it baby, I am my own business. Thanks to Carlo Ople, Marketing Head for the Casual Games Division of Level Up, he also do Digital Marketing Consultancy. That Carlo guy is surely is a guru. He made me see what I was looking for. Actually I was too dumb to see it. He pointed what is under my nose. There is a future under my nose! (on the background angels singing ahhhhhh. I saw the light.)
Currently I am a jobless Graphic Designer (well not really there is this one project that I will call "my break", woot woot break! Yeba! Not going to talk about it baka maunsyami.) I'm taking up Computer Programming in one of those computer schools inside the mall. hehe. I always say that I am a struggling Graphic Designer, well because I am. I have been a designer for quite awhile now. I provided my services for some small companies, because I am a sucker for the concept where one person decides to join a group, a very small company for that matter and that person grows with the company until that company becomes multi million worth, and a happy ending for all. For once I was in for that concept you know, rags to riches thing, but in my case the person who acquired the riches are those company owners I worked for and for us designers (who were supposedly part of the dream, the company grows, so do we. Not! it's just a crap!) we can share the leftovers on the plate.
For some time now I had my own website running http://www.kikomartinez.bravehost.com/, I have friendster, facebook, deviant art accounts. I was hoping that somehow I will get projects from these accounts. But I never had. I made logos, cd covers for friends and they are for free. I am happy I am capable to help them, and because of the "papuris" that I get from them, I always feel good I did a good job. hehe. Puzzled by the situation nobody would like to get my services aside from friends, thinking I had tons of accounts and they are like everywhere so people will go look for me if I just let it chill. No! That shouldn't be the case. And that is what actually I learned from Gonegosyo covention. Dapat masigasig akong nag popromote ng website ko, ng portfolio ko. I can use both facebook and friendster accounts to get projects only if I used my lagging brain in the very first place. It was an idea that I had before to promote it via social networking sites but I did not acted on it because I am so stupid and afraid. The talk which Carlo Ople had, made a huge impact to me. Fear is the main reason I do not have projects, why I do not have clients. I fear that people will have ill comments on my works, I fear that if I post my works people will mock at them, fear that I am not good enough, because of fear whenever people would ask me what is my profession is I would say 'Graphic Designer pero average designer lang ako'. I thought building my own website is a huge step to promote myself. Pero ano ang silbi ng website ko kung hindi naman ako bilib sa sarili ko. I am thankful I have real friends who appreciate my talent kahit libre sincere naman sila sa pagpuri sa akin. hahaha. And that builds my confidence. Kung wala akong clients ok lang pansamantala my friends are my biggest clients.
Cherrios to Gonegosyo. Carlo Ople you rock!
It's time to get the ball rolling guys. You'll going to see more of things I do (lunok...syet!). Hehehe. Just wait. Dito lang yan sa blog ko. You'll get kikofied. Bwahahaha.
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