As I write this I’m about a week behind on writing my journal entries here. I realize this is a more and more common situation. My marketing email list gets 3 entries a week and that is top priority. Then throwing all my other energy into getting new customers. And that is starting to work. … Read more
I finished up the initial version of a small website project I took on. Client is happy with progress and I’m happy with how it stayed simple. There will be a little more to do but it’s close to done once I hear back from client with some more info. I also got feedback from … Read more
My morning mastermind group was today. There was one new member. She had said she wanted to attend for a while and finally made it. Unfortunately she had technical troubles which took some time to resolve. Doing our meetings over the internet can be a challenge. While the meeting went well, we agreed that new … Read more
I spent much of the day on work projects. I was falling behind on managing my new business connections from LinkedIn and my girlfriend Chis had a good idea yesterday. I was working too hard at getting teach connection into my online contact database. Her suggestion was just write everyone’s name on a piece of … Read more
We did a morning run to the farmers market and got large quantities of delicious looking vegetables. There was some especially good looking cauliflower and I’m not normally a big fan of it. But I’ve been converted by the quality of what’s available locally here. In the late afternoon I picked up my daughter Elizabeth. … Read more
I went to a coffee shop in the morning for a chance of scenery and wrote a couple of marketing things (email and Linkedin post). In the afternoon I had a short call with someone I met through LinkedIn. She didn’t seem super interested and seems to think she and her team have everything handled. … Read more
At the networking group today a couple of interesting things happened. 1. I thought of a novel approach for my commercial and actually pulled it off. I wanted to comment on people who immediately try to hard sell you when they connect with you on social media. To illustrate, I did a bad variation of … Read more
I did client work and tried and failed to keep from watching the social media stats on my LinkedIn posts. The giant post started out at 28K views and my posts continued to grow. I didn’t take notes about today at the time and I’m writing this 4 days later so I’m a little stuck … Read more
The social media stats on my LinkedIn posts are going up rather quickly now. But the end of day, the post I did today had over 180 views and the two from last week had about 300 and 350 view respectively. I’ve never done posts that got that high a reach before. I think its … Read more
Had a quick lunch with Steve from the networking group. He is a little stubborn about some of my suggestions for LinkedIn but I think with the results I am starting to get, it will make sense to him in time (we will likely work together on something in January). Then I tried some shopping. … Read more