Been on calls and meetings for most of the week. And Monday especially was kind of crazy. One of those days – not that it happens too often – where your throat gets dry by the end of it because you had more calls/conversations than normal. I’ve also noticed this happens more on Monday than …
Holy moly – what a whirlwind of a week folks. Largely because on-top of the usual stuff, started doing some cold outbound sales to India. And if you know anything about India, you know that it’s ~10 hours ahead of me in Canada. Which means if I want to do any meaningful outreach by phone, it …
Early morning phone calls and what solopreneur success comes after Read More »
Do you work on weekends? Probably a hot topic, especially among solopreneurs. And especially with all the work-life balance chatter that goes on these days. I have some opinions about it, although as per usual, I think it really depends on the person, business, goals, etc. I personally like to work on Sunday afternoon. Here’s …
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Wanted to take my solopreneur book reviewing to a new level this week, so I tried something a bit different. As many of you know, I like reading, and I try to share summaries and lessons I learn when I finish a good book. And especially if you’re trying to start or grow a solopreneur …
What a week! Last Monday around 6pm our internet went out. There was a bit of a snow storm here so that was probably the cause, but I was susprised such a “minor” storm would cause an outtage considering that weather is pretty normal up here in Canada. Anyway, what I wanted to write about …
Did some cold calling this week. I’ve talked about it a little in the past, but getting into it more and more now that we’re full speed ahead doing marketing and sales for Visto. Have you done much cold calling? It can be a little daunting and intimidating, especially at first. But like anything, gets …
Had an interesting call with one of the Canadian embassies in Africa a few days ago. This is something we only recently discovered, but Canada has trade commissioners all around the world. And their mandate is basically to help Canadian solopreneurs and companies expand into other countries or regions of the world. Pretty cool stuff, …
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Had a few good solopreneur partnership discussions recently, including one in-person coffee chat. And it got me thinking – what is the tradeoff for doing in-person meetings? Now a few years ago (read: pre-Covid), we may not even be asking that question, because it was so “normal” to do lots of meetings in-person. During and …
Wanted to give you an update on how my solopreneur networking event went last Thursday night. Especially since I switched up the format a bit, so I was curious to see if the attendees liked the two new elements that I added in. Most of my networking events are focused on one thing: bringing people …
Went for a walk during lunch yesterday to grab some things and get some fresh air. When you work from home and live in Canada (the cold parts), going outside isn’t the most fun thing to do in the winter. And quite frankly, since so much of what we do now can be done online, …
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