Wow, what an awesome week! I didn’t have a full client load as I wished, but I did a few marketing things that really rocked. I had a booth at the Sharp UpSwing in Golden Valley and also did 2 speaking engagements on Monday to different private networking groups to support Project Link It Forward. I also found out that my piece in the Star Tribune was syndicated nationally and the story is all over the place. I received emails from folks all around the country…and some calls. My mom’s friend told me that the Waterloo paper put it on the front page of their business section, half page! OMG….she is sending me a copy. I couldn’t believe it. Who knows, maybe I will be in Waterloo doing workshops soon LOL.
This weekend I am heading home to Rochester for a late Christmas. It’s only going to be 25 below….I should be able to handle that. WT? 25 below? Yes, I’m nuts and I’m going.
Tonight though I am working on a few projects that need some love as I’m ready to push forward with business. It’s time to move it to a new level. Last year I did 260 client visits. This year I’m shooting for 4 times that. I know…big goals, but I plan on having a big business.
It’s Friday night, watching the Insider. Not much else is going on. I’m pretty excited to do nothing tonight but just relax.
See you next week! Lisa
Where did this week go? I know….I was sick all week long, barely had an ounce of energy, but still mustered up enough to work all week. I did take Friday off to relax somewhat, I caught up on emails all day long. With Friday night closing up, I hit the sheets with coricidan with a Nyquil shooter.
Today I am still sick, but had some good energy this afternoon so I ran errands, took my dog to the park and decided that Funyons was an acceptable “Lunch”. When I left Rainbow today chowing down on those Funyons, I realized I was one of those people that bought into the “marketing trick” of buying the junk food at the grocery store! I was in line and saw those Funyons just sitting there. How long had it been since I’ve had Funyons? A long time. A very long time. I better have some because it’s been awhile and they are pretty good. They are really good with sour cream. I remember eating them years ago with sour cream. Yum, that sounds really good. So they went in the cart. I ate them all on the way home sans sour cream. Hey I’m sick, I deserve something right? I had enough Funyons to keep me happy until 2010.
This afternoon I went through a few business plans and am working on some exciting things in the next few weeks. I’m doing many speaking events, many of which came after the Star Tribune article was printed. I’m very proud to be speaking to so many people about what I am really excited about…connecting people. It’s really what I’m good at, I wish I could make money just off doing that! Connecting people (networking) is something I have always been good at. I’m speaking to 2 groups on Monday about LinkedIn. One group is learning how to network into new jobs and opportunities and the other is a general FYI LinkedIn presentation.
I’m also boothing at the Upswing event on Wed at Golden Valley Country Club this week. it should be a good schmooze event for me, I like doing these types of events, they are fun! I love to get out and see folks.
I also made the decision to just focus on my core business, computer repair…so goodbye to LinkedIn workshops. As everyone here I hope knows, I’m also the creator of Project Link It Forward (a pro bono project) so I’m very busy and had to let something else go. Relieving myself of the workshops really helped me move ahead with just working on Call That Girl computer repair and services. Sometimes I think entrepreneurs get too ahead of themselves and put too much out there. I’m a one woman shop…I can only handle so many things on my plate. The biz is going well with computer repair so that is my core business and I need to focus on that. LinkedIn is the hot thing now and many other people are training it, so I am passing that along as requests come my way. I will pay it forward.
To close, I’m excited to “feel better” by tomorrow and have a day for me to do fun things for myself. I am going to wrap xmas presents as I’m finally going to celebrate with my family next weekend, do some cleaning, hit the gym and feel good that my energy is back.
Wow! What a week I’ve had! I was crazy busy and now I’m just finally able to do something for my personal life hah! Today I slept in and then did some email catch up, decided it was time to get out of the house and run tons of errands I needed to do.
I started off my day with going to see 2 apartments. The first one was decent, but the bathroom wasn’t up to my liking so it’s off the list. I told the guy that he needed to update the apt and he looked at my like “why” haha! because your bathroom is gross dude! Seriously…the paint was coming off the walls by the shower, how gross! I could not deal with that. And since he gave me that look, it wasn’t worth even asking him to fix it up. Next!
The next apt had me frightened. Enough about that.
My next errand was to get my puppy Frankie and doggie treat for tonight so we hit Urban Animal. There was a crazy dog in the store and I had to high tail it out of there. Next visit was the vitamin store. I love that place. I buy my “energy vitamins” Life Force 120 caps for $30. I love that stuff! I was a die hard Red Bull addict until I found these vitamins and I haven’t had a Red Bull since.
Off to the dog park! wait! I was starving…so I stop at Caribou on 24th and Hennepin for a D’Amico Turkey wrap…it was pretty good, but they should have added a wee bit more of the mayo, kinda dry. Off to the dog park! I was almost there and got a client call to pick up a computer at the office, so back to Nicollet and Franklin I go!
Client got the computer, back to the dog park…but I decided to hit Walgreens to drop off my ink cartridge. She ended up being able to fill it while I “waited” or what I call “shopping” time. I ended up spending $56. yikes!
Finally off to dog park with a quick visit first to the TCF in Uptown.
Dog Park was awesome! No fights for Frankie and he got his dog on…I love good dog park days.
Left Lake of the Isles and went to Payless, found some winter tennis shoes. Stopped at BBuster and got a flick “burn after reading” and then hit Chi-Lake for some Wine. That was an afternoon of running around I tell ya!
Got home and made some soup, biscuits and then didn’t feel good. Laid down for awhile, now I’m showered and do feel better a bit. I’m still very physically exhausted from this past week and mentally in need of a good day off. But not tomorrow…I have to work in the office all day.
the life of a struggling entrepreneur.
I’ve decided to change how my blog works. Back in college, I was a writer for our school paper, “The Winonan” and it was really fun to write about whatever I wanted. I had a weekly column, “I need a moment”. I wrote for 2 years, then didn’t get renewed my senior year…which sorta peeved me off. So instead of just staying mad, I worked on my own underground newspaper, “Censor This!”.
Since my business is building like mad right now and my brain is always focused on work, I felt that writing a blog about my day, clients and dramas, would be something that would help me keep track of memoirs and entertain the blog readers.
I’ll start with today. Today I woke up and was wondering if today I would still be receiving emails about the Strib article. Yep, all day long again! I can’t believe how it’s continuing on. 4 days later and I’m still getting emails about information for the Project workshops, speaking engagements and folks just congratulating me for a great piece. More importantly…I’m being thanked for creating the project and helping out even though I have a business to run. I feel so happy to be helping and will continue to help as much as I can.
When you take the first step out into the entrepreneur world, you have no idea what is going to happen. Last December I spent the better part of the month preparing for the Women’s Expo and putting on my “freshman 15″. I was not thrilled with the weight gain that I got from working out of my basement. Last December, I also only had 4 clients at that point, so for me to start this past Dec with a slow week due to holiday and fearing a comeback of “Last December” and being asked by pure strangers to help them find jobs…creating the project only seemed to what needed to be done to save me and help others who really wanted my help.Business picked up again for me shortly after, but I have found the ways to make it all work. I’m a natural connector and I am enjoying every minute of this.
So on with the day…
I decided to work from home as I had a remote phone support at 9:30 and could lounge around for that. I love working from home, but don’t get those that often anymore. Then I went to the office to find out our internet was down. Yay! Couldn’t do much, so I cleaned my purse and my drawers. My 1:o0 with my business developer Mary Chapa had to be moved to Green Mill where we worked out some business plans.
We came back to the office, still no internet. We borrowed some from the neighbor and figured out the rest of the plans and off I go on the road yet again to a final 5:30 appointment.
Got home and relaxed and called it a day!
