Had a promising call with someone I met at the virtual networking event Wednesday. She had a high viable food related business in Sacramento until California went on COVID-19 lockdown. We had a good conversation. She thinks she doesn’t have any money. We scheduled a follow up call for next week. I’ll sell her on … Read more
Now curiously I’m starting to write ahead in my thrice weekly marketing emails. I had one already written for Friday that I’ll now use for Monday. For Friday I’m doing another heavy sales related one. The email coaching offer I made Wednesday I’m pushing again for Friday with a different sales angle. More teaching leading … Read more
I had my 2nd online office hours session today and cut it short because no one was showing up and I had not promoted it much after yesterdays didn’t go anywhere. It’s fine. These are all experiments. I did go to an online networking meeting a guy in Sacramento put together. It was deadly dull … Read more
I’ve been trying to get people to come hang out with me online during “office hours” and I scheduled two times for it this week. Ultimately I overestimated how much people I know want help with their businesses. Or I’m selling the benefits of it wrong. Or something. But for todays I was doing a … Read more
The most interesting thing today, outside of the usual Monday work stuff, was helping my daughter Elizabeth with a written application she was doing for school. There is a process where she needs to write a bunch of short essays and then she will get a letter of recommendation from the school. That is as … Read more
For variety of TV viewing, I signed up for a 2 week free trial of The Criterion Collection channel so we can watch art house, foreign, and avant-garde. They have a small collection of films I’ve mostly never heard of before. Though a good collection of Jaques Tati and some Kurosawa. We started with Cactus … Read more
Today Chris and I suited up and did some morning grocery shopping. As usual, I wear gloves and push the cart and open cooler cabinets and push the buttons on the credit card terminal at the end. Chris puts items in the basket. Then hand sanitizer and wipes at the end. With Aldi you put … Read more
Unlike the last 3 days, I only had a couple of short calls today and did work the rest of the time. There is a software project I’ve been working on to help me automatically measure some statistics from LinkedIn. I got it to the point of usefully working today and I’m happy about that. … Read more
The business coach I’m working with wanted to do a live session on Facebook and I had prepared a couple of things for that. Unfortunately he was unable to figure out how to get us both on camera so it was short and different. It’s ok. Technology is difficult and I have zero experience with … Read more
As an experiment I had announced I would be available for “office hours” for 3 hours from 9am to Noon. That meant I had my camera and lights on and a link to my online video conferencing service available if anyone wanted to drop in and chat. As expected, attendance was light. But I got … Read more