After my sixth trade for R3000 cash, the experiment began. And what a learning curve! I learnt that you can’t barter with cash… dooh! Because the value is so specific and agreed upon by society, it was difficult to barter up in value. So many of the 118 offers (yes, I was made the most offers for the cash) were for exactly R3000, sometimes even less! And very rarely for more. The offers included the following: so much tech! From…
So far we know my goal is for office space to help startup entrepreneurs. I started with a match, traded it for a pen, then a frog, and the frog for 2 books. I then traded those two book with Nick for 2 case of First Sighting Wine – a total of 18 bottles! I got to catch up with Nick, and we spoke about why he made me the offer, where the books are now, and also learnt about…
I chose to trade Rodrigus Rana, the frog, (my third item) with Retha, for two business books. Retha was a good sport, and allowed Rod the Frog to go on many adventure, that included trips: to the UK to attend a wedding, sailing in Mozambique, rushing around Mumbai, visiting China and even going down a copper mine in Chile. Let alone all the trips he did around South Africa. On one of those South African Trips, Rod joined George Scola,…
I traded the matchstick with Nikki for an ordinary green ballpoint pen. And that pen I traded with Megan for a toy frog. We called him Rodrigus Rana, or Rod for short. Then I got offers for the frog that included a doll that raised funds for AIDS orphans, some books, and an optical mouse with 5 CD’s… Who did I trade Rod the Frog with? And for what? @telanasimpson Now I had Rod the #Frog. What would you have…
I traded the matchstick for an ordinary green ballpoint pen. And then what did I trade that pen for? And with who? This trade also highlighted a strategy I adopted going forward, of getting offers on my offers for my current item. @telanasimpson What would you swap a green #pen for? I chose a #frog as my second #onematchstick trade. & my #strategy ♬ original sound – Telana Simpson | Courage Coach Here is how Megan described her offer (original on…
Remember I got 5 offers for my matchstick? I decided and made my first trade on the 15th June 2006. Below is my recap video with Nikki Viljoen, about my first trade: I swopped the single matchstick for an ordinary green ballpoint pen. Why Nikki? Why the green pen? Where is that orginial matchstick today? Listen to Nikki telling us the story of my first trade here:
Yesterday I shared why I chose a matchstick, and how it all started. Today: Let’s recap about the 5 offers I got for my 1 matchstick. Which one would you have chosen? (Here is the list of offers made on my old onematchstick blog.) @telanasimpson I got 5 offers for my 1 matchstick. Which one should I have chosen? #tradingup #onematchstick #retelling ♬ original sound – Telana Simpson | Courage Coach Or watch here in Facebook, or here on Instagram.…
Let’s begin the recap of onematchstick, and do so by starting at the start. It was all the way back in 2006, on a Sunday, the 11th June, that I wrote my first ever blogpost. What inspired me? Why did I choose a matchstick? What was my goal then? Here’s the story, and the original blogpost. @telanasimpson Recap: how I started #onematchstick on 11 June 2006 #trading #tradingup #retelling ♬ original sound – Telana Simpson | Courage Coach
In June 2006 I started with a single matchstick and now, eleven trades later, I have a Mobile Lifestyle Makeover to trade on… I set out with this moonlighting project to get office space, to share with start-ups and run my coaching practice from. Now with COVID, the need for offices has changed. So much has actually changed since I started in 2006. Just as COVID hit us, over a year ago, I had just got some blocks out the…
I’m reigniting onematchstick, just working on the strategy, and the start was a website.For the backstory – see my blog that has the story until now: https://onematchstick.blogspot.com/
