Today has been all about meetings. I’ve got 3 new people on my team, and most of my Mondays go into helping to train them.
So grateful to have help. I didn’t ask for it well enough in the past, and I’m working hard to do that more this year.
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Alex Standiford
Rent’s due. Got work to do this week.
1. Interview with some near-shore talent for future projects
2. Finalize estimate on proposal for future project
3. Finish blog post and email draft on personal brand
4. Follow up on existing leads
TGIF. Been a hard week.
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Alex Standiford
The grind continues!
- Negotiating a scope item with a client.
- Setting up a deployment flow
- Troubleshooting a connection to a WordPress website to a custom Azure application
- Write up email for my email subscribers
- Get agenda together for quarterly meeting
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Alex Standiford
Today’s a grindy, non-glorious day.
- Maintenance for one of our biggest clients.
- Quarterly meeting planning
- Posting social content
- Setting up account access for my assistant to manage our various subscriptions
- Sales emails and calls
- Interview for a salesperson
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Alex Standiford
Today in my “document all the things” binge, I’m documenting the recommended tooling and solutions we offer for slow websites, based on the result of a pingdom speed test. The hope is my team will be able to more-effectively recommend what I suggest to my clients.
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Alex Standiford
Writing up some documents to help AI with advising my sales team on how to pitch Novatorius services to customers.
AI seems to be mostly shifting my time from doing the thing to documenting the thing. Which, I guess needed to happen if I want to grow regardless.
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When to Pull in an Outside Tech Partner
I used to think I was doing developers a favor by keeping them out of the early planning. Turns out, I was just setting them up to fail. Here’s what I’ve learned about when to actually bring in outside help, and why timing makes all the difference.
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Alex Standiford
I always laughed at how many open tabs people had open in their browser. I’ve always been a “one tab” kinda person.
And then I started running my own business. That uh…that humbled me a bit.
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Are you a Problem Solver, or Solution Creator?
There’s a big difference between being a problem solver and being a solution creator—and most people get it wrong.
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Making My Business Siren-Centric
I’ve spent way too much time trying to build separate sales pipelines when the answer was right in front of me—Siren. Instead of growing Siren in spite of my business, I’m building my business around Siren. Every product, every service—Siren is the core. 🚀
