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Stand Up: Who's hustlin' on Wednesday?

Why?

That extra nudge of accountability to achieve even a small step on your IH journey each day.

To join in:

01 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of July.

02 Share what you accomplished yesterday.

03 Share what you commit to accomplishing today.

04 COMMENT on AT LEAST ONE fellow hacker's progress and give them an IH Point for their check in. Let's get in there with the encouragement/feedback!

Optional:

05 Share your Work In Progress to underscore your accomplishments.

Then tune in the tomorrow to share how you did on your own tasks!

#daily-stand-up

on July 24, 2019
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    July Epic

    • Idea validated & chosen

    Yesterday

    • Off day - hung out with old bosses & friends!

    Today

    • Finish up research
    • Summarize findings
    • Send out summarized findings to contacts to validate findings + figure out if the idea is plausible

    Kudos
    @Davey for powering through a nuts day at work, putting the kids to bed, AND knocking out a major feature!

  2. 3

    EPIC

    1. 2019
      • $6400 EOY - Nov & Dec excluded
    2. July
      • $1600

    YESTERDAY

    • Do a discovery call.
    • Schedule a follow-up call.
    • Book a discovery call.
    • Review & reflect - Define/list customer profiles to test.
    • Review & reflect - Assess lead/prospect segments
    • PT job

    TODAY

    1. List resources, strategy ideas for prospects.
    2. Do a follow-up call.
    3. Continue on: - Define/list customer profiles to test.
    4. Continue on: - Assess lead/prospect segments.
    5. Devise an outreach plan for today/tomorrow.
    6. Prospect then outreach.
    7. Review & reflect - Assess my progress, collected data & feedback.

    WIP: Envoy

    KUDOS
    TBA

  3. 3

    July Epic

    • Get the Announcr App ready for live demos: 75%

    Yesterday
    Was a NUTS busy day at the day job but I geared up to chase the deadline rabbit right after I put the kids to bed and knocked out almost all of a major feature.
    -Created a message system to allow customer to send messages/feedback to locations from within the app. DB Table, Backend, App UI work. Won't do "Respond to messages" feature yet, but roughed it into the backend and setup the DB to handle it.

    • Added anonymous messaging

    Today

    • Create the Read Message UI
    • Add pricing/cost to app UI for sending notifications
    • Add A FB style # potential users to UI for sending notifications

    Kudos
    PENDING

    Work in Progress
    Announcr

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      ( 1 ) Just checked out your landing page for the first time in a hot minute. The copy if fab! Well done!

      ( 2 ) My oh my Announcr has grown up! I really dig the direction you're taking!

      ( 3 ) How will you persuade customers to download the app?

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        Thanks! Need to update again with the newest, but that will be in early August. I am going to go town by town, location by location, with a regional/local rep strategy to sign up businesses and evangelize the app. There is a lot of room in the margin to compensate local reps well. Coordinated launch plans in localities will help rollout take on a kind of "this is trending in our community, jump on the bandwagon" from both businesses and local users/reps.

        Incentive to the customer is to:

        • Get special exclusive promotions
        • Be notified on limited specials
        • Be part of an insider's club for research
        • Offer anonymous feedback
        • Have an instantly more concierge customer experience
        • "Voice of the customer", "make a difference" style of empowerment

        Sweet spot for revenue starts at around 50 customers per location, and they don't need to be unique from location to location. ie I expect lots of local overlap.

        1. The locations will ask their best/loyal customers to download the app so they can communicate with them, and vice versa. I will also design swag, printables, and stickers to leave at locations, counter cards, door posters, etc. Cost comes out of setup. Their incentive to do so is TREMENDOUS as Announcr gives them a good handful of unique superpowers they can use anytime, at a crazy price.

        2. Local reps will evangelize in their own communities, using various angles pulled out of the customer benefit list. Pre-created sales/marketing collateral and FB ad creative for them to use.

        3. Good old fashioned paid UA and marketing

  4. 3

    Epic

    Add eBay support to AZLabels

    Yesterday

    • Found a good way to get a bunch of email addresses for Helpscout users. Emailed 10 of them to ask for their help in testing. Posted on IH (no love :-().
    • Turns out the click tracking chart wasn't broken after all; not sure why I thought it was.

    Today

    • Go through the whole CT project to clean it up, organize the code. Just paying some technical debt.

    Help

    • If you use HelpScout to manage customer support (at least 5 emails a day), would love to get you to test out CollectTrust (no charge). Once the beta finishes I'll send you a gift basket to share at the office (or your home office! :-))
    1. 1

      (Smiling) It's not you, it's us.

      In this crowd, I suspect you'd likely have more luck with Front. Might be worth polling which team boxes IH'ers use...

  5. 2

    YEAR EPIC

    • AutomatedApi running with at least 5 paying customers
      JULY EPIC
    • AutomatedApi accepting customers

    decided to simplify some verbiage there :P

    YESTERDAY

    • (Client) finished basic framing of new portal page and some bug fixes
    • (AutomatedApi) worked out file loading and in browser editing of API definitions
    • hobby/fun - reached out to podcast about potentially writing a fun little thing together...might actually be able to turn it into something in those hours where my brain isn't totally focused on AA.

    TODAY
    -(AutomatedApi) work out a simple wizard setup for new api creation through user portal. Done but very rough, needs thought before refining.
    -(AutomatedApi) roll old landing site code into new site so I can iterate on pricing implementation.

    KUDOS:
    everyone who got on yesterday before the day was over...I definitely spaced until late

    WIP
    AutomatedApi.com

    1. 1

      What's preventing you from accepting customers today?

  6. 1

    EPIC FOR JULY

    Complete 42 pieces of content for evergreen launch. Includes:

    4 Facebook ads for two funnels (4 of 4 completed)
    3 Landing pages (3 of 3 completed)

    • 9 Website pages (home (completed), privacy policy (completed), about (completed), contact (completed), enrollment closed, free training (completed), access ended page for enrollment page (completed))
    • 3 scripts for free video series (1 of 3 completed)
    • 4 scripts for course videos
    • 1 cheat sheet
    • 6 emails for two funnels
    • 1 script for orientation video
    • 1 PDF for orientation
    • 4 quizzes
    • 4 templates
    • 1 resource page

    YESTERDAY

    • Almost finished mobile responsiveness.

    TODAY

    • Write second script for free video series.
    • Finish up mobile responsiveness.
    • Do a quick pass for tablet responsiveness.
    • Add just a touch of flavor to the post template.
    • Hire MUA.
    • Book venue for film shoot.

    KUDOS
    @sundaymorningcowboy for joining us for a second round + leveling up his skills!

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      FILM SHOOT EXTRA HERE. Sounds exciting though

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        (Laughing!) That would be so RAD!

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      Is this your first time joining the stand up party? And how your gathering case studies?

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        Existence of an actual onboarding process and reverse proxy through which to push calls to their service. Both on the list for completion by end of July. At that point I can brute force new web api generation for customers.