Yesterday was a busy day–a lot of time spent running around outside the office and finishing a client project. It’s always great to finish something, but I spent much longer than I anticipated. “Fixing” that is clearly a top priority!

Marketing-wise:

• I sent out two packages–one to the Ben & Jerry’s PR guy as I discussed in the Day 1 post, another to a kick-ass copywriter I admire  and would love to work with. The package itself was a 2-page sales letter and toy cell phone (which actually talks!) being sent via Priority Mail. (Her address is a PO Box, making it impossible to send via FedEx or UPS). We’ll see what happens…
• Followed up about three teleseminar opportunities
• Sent a list of ideas to my VA about things I’d love to outsource
• Tried to send out follow-up postcards last night to a small group of local web designers but twice my laptop wigged out and the text ended up getting deleted.

After the second time, I called it a night. I’m not a big fan of SendOutCards to start with (I ONLY use them to send small batches of postcards. The cards are way too cheesy for me, esp. with the person’s address on the back of the card. And I’m sorry, you can scan in your handwriting and pretend it looks real and people can’t tell the difference, but they can!) and the fact there doesn’t seem to be a way to save what you’re working on and come back to it without sending it the card doesn’t help. Maybe I’ll send a letter instead.

Finally, the client who approached me with another small project the day before paid me (why can’t they all be this fast!), so I ended up banking 68% of my daily income total for the day.

Aside from client work, the schedule is clear today so hopefully it’ll be an even more productive day!