The day the SAS heard a Dragon roar!!

Well, where do I start?! What an absolutely amazing few days I have had since my shock win of a #SBS award from the hugely popular businessman & Dragon’s Den star Theo Paphitis!

So let’s go back to Sunday 25^th March, it started as any ordinary day, the sun was shining & spring definitely felt like it had arrived. I had, had a lovely day with family and friends and at 17:30 on the dot my trusty phone alarm went off for me to send my weekly tweet to Theo (yes that is the Monica in me, never wanted to forget!!) Each week since I started entering #sbs I would try & come up with something different to try & get Theo’s attention, I tried ones playing on the ‘SAS’ theme, jumping out of helicopters, great to have around in an admin emergency, you get the picture! But, that night I went with a very straightforward tweet:

"@theopahitis #sbs Been Busy supporting growing businesses all week, it will make my Sunday if I get a #RT from you! www.staceysadminsolutions.co.uk"

Ok, I may have then thanked all my lovely followers individually who re-tweeted my entry, and named drop Theo into every tweet, but hey a girl has to try, and I was on a mission to get my ‘golden ticket’ to the much talked about #SBS Event!

I sent the original tweet at about 18:15 & then carried on with my usual Sunday night twitter madness with all the networking events that take place every week! Fast forward to about 21:10 & I get the first congratulatory tweet about my #SBS win – yes, I got 2 congratulation tweets before THE re-tweet from Theo showed up in my interactions! At that moment, I literally and I mean literally fell off my chair! I then had to remember to start breathing again! I ran straight upstairs to tell my husband who doesn’t really get Twitter, but understood the impact a re-tweet from Theo could have, after I told him about when my lovely twitter pal Nici from @Woodandwillow1 won a few months ago.

To be honest I am not quite sure what happened after that! I know I phoned my mum but the rest is a blur! By the time I got back to the laptop & my hands had stopped shaking enough to type again, I had had something like 183 interactions & they didn’t stop! I started thanking everyone for all their lovely words of support at about 22:00 but by 23:15 I was in the infamous twitter jail! I decided to try & get some sleep & would start again in the morning.  I took a note of who I was up to in the thank you’s and smiling from ear to ear went off to bed. I got very little sleep as I was still in state of shock and so excited at the prospect of going to the #SBS event the following Friday.

Monday came & I was still running on adrenalin, the congratulation tweets didn’t stop all day and I had to write my press release – easy I thought, I do this all the time for other people, was it heck! My brain was whirring so fast with a million & one things I wanted to say but couldn’t get it together! Finally, after about 2hrs I had nailed it and was happy with what I had written. The press release was saved to my website & I started sending it to all the local papers and magazines. By Tuesday morning it had been published online by 2 local papers and will be on print on Friday! To say I am over whelmed is an understatement!

So, there you have it, a blow by blow account of my #SBS win! I hope I didn’t bore you? I just needed to get it all out, lol! The lovely @ShelliBobbins sent me a screen shot of the moment Theo re-tweeted me, which I will forever look at & smile and think ‘the day the SAS heard a dragon roar!!’