Furniture, movies, skincare... To Property/Marketing
Yes, one more addition to the once blank resume of mine. I seemed to have gotten lucky once more. I had lined up an interview shortly after my arrival in Bali.
A little backstory to this... I love the property business and I had built several villas in Bali and houses in Canada. My background in Industrial Designs, CAD and so on was a perfect fit for this. I love going to see new places. I love the design and building aspect of it and above all I love Bali. I am passionate about the island and the people.
A fifteen-year gap. To an interview.
How can this be? Do not burn your bridges is the way this goes once more. I had plenty of experiences with different real estate companies during my nearly 30 years of coming to and living in Bali.
But keeping in touch over LinkedIn and the odd messages here and there kept this friendship alive to the point that we knew where were in life. My friend knew I was in Jakarta and where I was employed. About a year and a half ago we talked and entertained the idea of working together. I didn't need the job and he may not have been ready for me. But we connected again and I was in need of a job. This interview was 15 years in the making...
I got a new job! I got it.
As soon as we met we hit it off and I had already prepared a presentation to relaunch this real estate company. I prepared it during my two-day quarantine in Jakarta.
Needless to say, it is a complete makeover. New logo, new look, new blogs and so forth. A plan to create content and a plan to revitalize this company that fell behind a touch in the social media aspect of its marketing.
Being in marketing and content creation plus the knowledge of real estate gave me the perfect advantage. I rolled out my plan and over a coffee, we shook hands and I started my new position.
What I learned...
We always need to be learning. We cannot sit still and let life pass us by. Need to take chances, always reaching for the next milestone and the next level.
In the meantime, I kept at it with my books, you can see all of them on my website. I learned how to format, upload, price and make my book available on several platforms. Kobo, Apple Books, Amazon, KDP and I learned how to get a book ready for printing.
I learned how to run a studio, rent and customer service, plus project management for the 3 million dollar project we completed at the Jakarta Film Studios. We built the first-ever Dolby Atmos studio in Jakarta.
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