This is Week 41 of a 52-week project/experiment in DIY marketing. Armed with nothing but a copy of the 2009 Grow Your Business Marketing Plan + Calendar and my bare wits, I’m applying the skills you need to grow a business in real time, day by day, and reporting on them week by week here, on the podcast, and at the Marketing Mix blog.
Streamlining continues at a steady pace since my freakout of a few weeks back.
I’m continuing to move toward my stated goals of clearing backlog and implementing systems that support my work. Of course, I’m also doing my work while all this happens, plus these are some pretty baked-in habits, so I won’t give the false impression that all is hunky-dory here in the Land of Perpetual Change. Or even that the change, while perpetual, is always deliberate.
One thing I thought might be useful would be to show how I’ve structured my calendar to create some of this room and order. I really enjoy seeing and understanding how other people manage their workflow; I’m hoping that videos like these might prove useful to others, as well. NOTE: if you click the little button on the bottom right-ish, you can make this sucker go full screen. And if you click through to watch it on Vimeo, you can view it in HD:
gCal (Show me your rig!) from communicatrix on Vimeo.
There’s a lot more I can do with this screencasting software (Screenflow, for the Mac, for those who are interested): zooming, adding text, bumping up the size of the Colleen screen, etc. Right now, I’m just trying to familiarize myself with the tool from a “performance” and storytelling standpoint.
But does it basically make sense? Or make so much sense that you’re all “DUH, Colleen.”? Is there stuff I should do more of? Less of? Ways to make this more useful?
Would love your input, in the comments or via email (colleen AT communicatrix DOT com).
xxx
c
Marketing round-up for this week:
- 6 blog posts (four at the main blog, one here)
- targeted mailing to LinkedIn, address book and Facebook about upcoming Pam Slim seminar
- first in-person meeting of a new chapter of the Mutual Admiration Society
- first virtual meeting of new semi-regular marketing/workflow support partnership (I’m supplying the marketing support, they’re supplying the workflow support)
- email, obviously
- morning and afternoon checkins with Facebook and Twitter
- revised one page on my website
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fantastik, Communicatrix. Here’s what drew me in:
3 things only per day
not scheduling tasks
clients tues/weds/thurs
What kept me out a bit:
was fast, don’t know Gcal, wanted to see your screen bigger
next wishes: that you’d make a “Work Sane” teleseminar over several weeks to explore our process in more depth along with yours. Dy
It makes sense, and I find it helpful. Look forward to trying out the program and giving it a spin along with your tips. Agree w/ Dyana Valentine’s things that drew her in. Also love the video– great learning tool for me.