Today was normal Monday work chaos. Not in a bad way, just a bunch of random things. Mostly reaching out to a longer than usual list of people for follow ups and setting appointments for later in the week. I didn’t worry about getting work done on building the online class. I did schedule this … Read more
Picking daughter Catherine up, the four of us went to brunch at the Zinfandel Grill. It was pretty good and I didn’t need to eat the rest of the day. After I drove Catherine back to Berkeley and happily didn’t run into any particular traffic either way. It was a nice quick visit. I’ll make … Read more
My daughter Catherine decided to come back to Sacramento for Easter. She got the free shuttle from Berkeley to UC Davis and I picked her up there. Unsurprisingly, I was able to convince her to come with me to lunch. After discovering the restaurant Journey to the Dumpling last year, there was one more dumpling … Read more
I had a follow up call with a networking contact. She runs a separate networking group, likes my email list, and in this conversation as well as last I got a lot of good customer research about what people need help with. I may have a chance to speak at their group and she intends … Read more
Another sunny day in California. I look out the window and there are lots of flowers and blue sky. It looks nice. I got into some technical depth setting up the experimental online course I’m writing. I need a way for people to be able to sign up for it, create an account, forget their … Read more
I went to the Wednesday networking group as usual and had a good time. This group keeps growing and was up to 42 attendees today. We ended up violating a cardinal rule of the group by going 7 minutes over time because it took so much time for everyone to have a chance to do … Read more
I went to the morning networking group as usual and it was a larger crowd of 12 with several new people. The group keeps gradually growing. My commercial was ok and there are a couple of people I’ll follow up with. After, I ended up talking to a crazy person for a while. I didn’t … Read more
I scheduled some more meetings with people from networking. I keep finding value not so much in trying to sell what I do, but learning about their problems and what they are looking for. I know this is the basics of everything I’m reading in marketing however it is annoyingly somehow different when applying it … Read more
I visited my daughter Catherine in Berkeley today. The drive there and back was uneventful and didn’t have any particular traffic. I got an early start but even coming back was pretty smooth. I got there early and read my expensive marketing book until she was ready. I had not seen her since January so … Read more
I had a meeting with someone from the networking group. She sells organic coffee via a MLM and does tastings on weekends. I hoped it would be lightly attended so I could talk to her more about her business. Not because I need to start selling coffee. Rather because she expressed interest in getting marketing … Read more