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Wednesday Edition: #Daily-Stand-Up

(So quiet in here yesterday! Spring fever?)

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 March.

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.

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

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    Spring Fever is RIGHT!
    Been a busy week. I keep thinking I can start this routine up again but it keeps dropping down the list. Trying to balance distractions against a too-full plate lately.

    EPIC:
    March:

    • (Agency) Get first contract complete with good reaction and results.
    • (Product) Get AutomatedApi to an ALPHA ready state.
      I've changed my tune a bit in terms of aggressiveness of the release of AutomateApi.com as a product. My day job is at a potentially big customer so I've decided to focus more on building content around it and completing the product so I can hit the ground running and build a consulting business around it.

    2019:

    • (Agency) Replace full time job with steady contract work and enlist at least one partner developer.
    • (Product) Release with 5 paying customers

    YESTERDAY:

    • (Agency) Reached out to customer
    • (Agency) fixed several bugs and completed hooking up new upload logic to project management API
    • (Agency) Scheduled meeting to begin transition of a business acquisition into the portfolio
    • (Product) tested generated service to make sure it would natively compile before implementing the deployment pipeline

    TODAY:
    -(Agency) Demo and Review with customer
    -(Agency) Lay out next week of work and contract wrap-up conditions
    -(Agency) Begin asset transition

    KUDOS:
    @Harlem and @helengriffinjr for keeping the train rolling while the rest of us dropped the ball.

    WIP:
    AutomatedApi.com

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      Are congrats in order re business acquisition?

      1. 1

        Maybe :P
        Pondering how best to make the announcement.

  2. 3

    Just popping in to say I love you guys! In all seriousness, had unexpected out of state court prep and appearances, so I'm big time in a rabbit hole.

    Looking forward for this rough patch to end! Highly doubtful I will get to anything today except maybe some late night planning.

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    EPIC

    By end of 2019:

    5K MR

    By end of March:

    • 🙌🏾Launched 12 March 2019. (Will share WIP during end of month retro)
    • Publish 18 articles. (18/18 determined, 8/18 written, 7/18 published)
    • Conduct 3 post experiments with a minimum CTR of 2.69%.
    • Increase organic growth from 0 to 11 persons (6 of 11).
    • Persuade an additional 15 influencers to contribute posts. (13/15 - Converting much better now that I've a flippin' website!)

    YESTERDAY

    • Add affiliate links to Round Up post.
    • Tinkered with social automation.
    • Followed up with influencers.
    • Attempted to organize the influencer funnel.
    • Requested another round of illustrations.

    TODAY

    • Set up experiment #1 via Google ads.
    • Create five new influencer posts.
    • Follow up with influencers.
    • Create template for Reviews post.
    • Create outline for next Pillar post.
    • Finish scraping algorithm.
    • Finish adding rich snippets.
    • Redesign navigation.

    KUDOS: @helengriffinjr for holding down the daily stand up with me!

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      Hot damn, that's a list. I dig your style, the specificity of your lists the last couple weeks seems to have helped make you a lot more productive.

      1. 1

        (Laughing!) Thanks! Specificity ain't a choice. After work, I don't have the willpower to figure out what to do. I let the stand up spoon feed me.

        1. 1

          Oh I totally get that, specificity in task definitions is maybe the best way to get started on a task when you're running out of self-starting juice in the after hours down time.

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    EPIC

    1. 2019
      • $50K annual revenue
    2. March
      • Get a remote job.
      • Get 20 people to say this is not a real problem & reject my value proposition.
      • Get 10 customers to confirm a real problem.
      • Schedule customer interviews/calls.

    YESTERDAY

    • Apply for jobs.
    • Daily customer research.
      1. Find users/chats using SEO terms/phrases to actively talk about a problem.
        • quite a few of the terms resulted in ads/marketing w/no user engagement
      2. Identified 10/joined 5 specific channels.
        • Find active lead sources where I can observe, learn & engage in.

    TODAY

    • Apply for jobs.
    • Daily customer research.
      1. Find users/chats using SEO terms/phrases to actively talk about a problem.
      2. Find 10 specific active lead sources on another platform.
    • Daily keyword research.
      1. Search top 3 SEO results for each term and see what else pops up.

    WIP Mindful

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