Implementation Day 13 – Hard slog
Hard day today. We had some upsetting news which completely knocked us out. Not easy, but you just have to get back in the saddle. I managed to get some work in before the bombshell. Here’s the (brief) list: – I spent an hour or so this morning further cleaning up my contact data to get it ready […]
Read MoreImplementation Day 12 – CRM
Big day today! The slow pace of yesterday gave me the kick up the arse I needed to eat a big frog (book reference: “Eat That Frog” by Brian Tracy). I took on the world of “Customer Relationship Management” software (CRM). I have been putting this off for approximatively 3 years. I’ve had a CRM […]
Read MoreSemi-Implementation Day 11 – One step forward two steps back
The Good: – Keeping on top of Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Still a lot to learn on these, but getting better. Hootsuite is great for this. – I put an enquiry form on the Magic-Weddings website – Tweaked the Christmas Party Magician enquiry form – Followed up more contacts from our tele-sales experiment – Research […]
Read MoreImplementation Day 10 – Video, follow-ups and apps progress
I’m writing this while waiting for the kids to finish their swimming lessons. I know smart phones are nothing new, but I still find them incredible at times like this. 6 months into having my iPhone and the thing is still remarkable to me. Anyway. On to today. Cait, my wife, spent a couple of […]
Read MoreImplementation Days 4 to 9 – Lots to catch-up on
Well, apologies for my lack of blog updates. I’ve been busy getting stuff done and if writing the blog gets in the way of that then it’s a counter productive activity. The point of this thing is to be my conscience to make sure I don’t stop getting things done. The main things I’ve set […]
Read MoreImplementation Day 3 – Finding iPhone app developers, WordPress tweaking and admin
It’s not all plane sailing this being productive lark! I’m glad I’ve got this structure in place though. My determination to have something of merit to write in the blog kept me plodding on. This morning was spent sorting out problems with sending yesterdays emails. I stuck with sending the emails via Mail Merge in […]
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