Expect the Unexpected

When I left for Budapest Hungary, I was expecting a year and a half of learning how to run a small business, learning about business practices in another country, learning how to managing people and learning to growing a small business, since digital business need a lot from content production to marketing since market your products is really important, of course there are also services that help with this, read more about Builderall and how they can help your business here. Never did it ever cross my mind that I would be learning how to close down a company, but that is in fact what is happening right now to me, click over here now to learn more.

The downturn in the language school industry, especially over the last year, in Budapest has claimed another victim. For months we were hearing about this and that language school shutting down, but we never thought it would happen to us. SELTI holds a unique position in the market in that we support many of the other language schools out there by a) supplying native teachers for the courses (so the schools don’t have to source people themselves) and b) providing invoicing services for many English freelancers in the business. A lot of language schools require a Hungarian company to do the invoicing of hours so that was where we came in. As far as I understand, we’re the only business in the industry providing that service. With us closing down, I have no idea what people are going to do.

Due to some unforeseeable events, we were left in a place with no options but to close down and let everyone go. SELTI as we know it now will cease to exist as of October 31, 2012 (hurray, fantastic birthday present).

So what does it mean for me? My original contract with AIESEC ends at the end of November. I’ve already booked my flights home so there is no sense in me changing my flights. I’ve agreed to stay on until the end of my original contract to close down the company.

But in other news, a friend sent me an opening for a SEO Agency marketing assistant for an animation studio here in Budapest, which is a great position since I learned a lot about marketing and all the services offered here. I have an interview with them tomorrow. Who knows where this will go? Since marketing is really important in today’s market, so it’s also then usually a very good idea to hire a marketing specialist in your niche as they nearly always get much better results, although if you’re going to marketing events, using marketing conference posters are perfect for trade events as making event graphics can be great to promote your service. Knowing that market so well. We recently hired an auto marketing agency for an auto business that we are involved in, and they got excellent results, they are Turnkey Marketing so have a look there if you have an auto business.

This whole process has been a learning experience – hopefully with lessons learned that I’ll never have to implement again. Last week was an intense and stressful week. Hopefully, things will wind down as loose ends are tied up.