The weather this morning was lovely. Cool air and no humidity. I took a nice long walk, about 3 miles and came back feeling good. Apple apparently released really good financial numbers yesterday so their stock jumped up by a crazy amount (5% overnight) so I called over to Phil my finance guy to sell … Read more
I had a morning meeting with an event planner I met at a networking event a couple weeks ago. She is new-ish in her business and feeling overwhelmed about where to go next with respect to marketing. We had a good brief talk and scheduled a follow up call for Friday. I’ll give her a … Read more
I had a call in the morning and worked the rest of the day. I’m reading up on the life coach for whom I’m helping with marketing. Reading his past blog entries and taking notes about how he helps his clients. In the evening I went to another meeting of the blogging group I found … Read more
In my research into local businesses that looked interesting I found Loon Liquors. They are a distillery south of the Twin Cities that distill their own organic whiskey, gin, and vodka. Now, I don’t drink but there was something about them that seemed interesting. And my girlfriend Chris does drink. And they have a “cocktail … Read more
This morning my girlfriend Chris and I went out to a local farmers market and did some other shopping. We were having a hard time finding a market that was open when it was scheduled to be. Sometimes there was weather. Sometimes the website that is supposed to list when and where the markets happen … Read more
I set up a meeting for next week with someone I met at networking last night. He says he is looking for someone who does marketing writing (me) because he doesn’t like to write. His thing is search optimization (getting your website found by search). He has a networking group he runs so I’ll meet … Read more
To update on my girlfriend Chris, since it’s been a while: She is only occasionally taking Tylenol. She is riding her stationary bike for between 5-10 minutes at a time. Walking around the block is slow but steady. And she can stand for longer and longer periods without discomfort. All of the joint pain is … Read more
I met again with the life coach client I found on LinkedIn today. We figure out plans for his next book and I’ll work on an email sequence and landing page for him. Paid, naturally. I really like the ideas he has and it seems like he has a good team he is working with … Read more
I cooked one of the beef briskets that I portioned from meat we bought from Greg’s a few weeks ago. The first attempt was to use the slow cooker and I wasn’t thrilled with the result. This time I found a recipe from the Culinary Institute of Near Orleans. It cooks stove top immersed in … Read more
The main excitement today was getting the Norwegian mug products set up on my girlfriend Chris’ online store. I set up a simple t-shirt store for her Son’s of Norway lodge. Then we found an online company that will print t-shirts so we are integrating with them so we don’t have to ship anything. And … Read more