Inspiration for my networking group commercial today came from a copywriting email I received this morning. It just sprang into my head and was ready. I was pleased. “A common problem for business owners is finding clients. You know, here we all are networking. But what if you had enough clients? What if your website … Read more
I drove my girlfriend Chris to work (her school) so I could do some final errands. I wanted to go by Greg’s Meats and get a couple Christmas presents and likewise a final stop at Aldi. Then back to her place to pack, cook some chicken to be helpful and get some work in. The … Read more
Today we ran some errands and I cooked and we enjoyed looking at snow. In the evening my girlfriend Chris and I went out to a show, All The Great Books (Abridged), in St Paul with our good friends Len and Linda. The show was a lot of fun and did managed to cover the … Read more
Today was pretty relaxing. I made curry again with the leftover eggplant I had, plus broccoli and yellow squash. It was very good. In the evening we went to Sons of Norway and had a good time. The board members were happy to see the progress on the T-Shirt sales site I’m building for them. … Read more
I’m really struggling with finishing the proposal for the client I’m pitching next week. The challenge is getting into a mindset where I’m comfortable writing about myself and why I would be a good pick for the work. I need to accept that this is affecting everything I’m doing and get over it. [I’m writing … Read more
Outside of the usual work stuff tonight was date night and we were going to a new restaurant. It was also lightly snowing and my girlfriend Chris rightly suggested that leaving extra early would be good. Reservations were for 6:30pm across town which under normal circumstances would take 35 minutes so we left by 5pm … Read more
We woke up to a light dusting of snow which I enjoy seeing. I worked most of the day on my proposal and other business things and made a simple dinner (though, writing some days later, I don’t recall what. Let’s presume chicken and some vegetable). One fun thing was talking to a high school … Read more
I voted before I left California. Today was quiet and pretty productive. Among other things, I launched my test Facebook Ads campaign and after a few false starts, got all 32 ad variations launched and running. Spoiler, I paused the campaign early the next day as there is more I need to plan out regarding … Read more
I got up at 5:30am and made breakfast and drove my girlfriend Chris to work. I needed the car today to do some shopping. The grocery store Aldi has it’s Christmas chocolate out and I wanted to do early shopping and I also found some wonderful new English cheese. I worked the rest of the … Read more
I slept well till around either 3 or 4am local time and had work on my brain. I’d been thinking of the proposal I will be working on this week and was pondering if I know enough to do what I say what I’m going to do so I did some research on marketing tools. … Read more