Get More Out of Interviews and Networking, Save Time With AI, Get Better at Writing, Discover a Victorian Seaport, and a Super Easy Winter Squash Dish
Tips for hosts and guests, content writers, travelers in the PNW, and easy Delicata side dish
📽 Featured Post
How to Do a Better Interview
Get the most out of every minute for your audience, your guest, and you.
It serves both the host and the interviewee to plan a call-to-action, determine the important talking points and how the interviewee wants to be contacted beforehand.
✂Curations
💡There’s a lot of buzz around writing with AI. It turns out there are several very interesting benefits. Learn 10 ways to use ChatGPT’s AI tool to generate content you’ll love quickly and easily. It’s not about completely turning over your writing to AI. It’s another tool to make life, and especially repurposing, a productive part of the process.
💡 Good example of an About Me page on Substack @blogging_guide. Everybody needs a great About Me page. Take a look at this one for some ideas. It’s one of the first impressions new visitors get about you. Rewrite yours and share on Medium too.
💡 Expert copywriting teacher Andy O’Bryan shares topics on his new YouTube channel that are all things copywriting: how to write emails, sales pages, opt-ins, headlines, lots more!
🆒🔧Sales & Marketing Tool
☛ Expand your audience with this planner to Meet Someone New Every Day. Improve your professional and personal life by making the effort to meet people who could transform your business. Create a new enriching habit! ☚
I created this planner as my personal networking exercise. Results of the first month blew me away. Things were happening that I never dreamt of and I was delighted.
A lot of things surprised me about the habit:
o How little time it took
o Unexpected responses
o How delighted I was with the interactions
o That some were in my neighborhood as well as online with professionals
☛ ☛ ☛ The Planner
☛ Wonder what you can do to expand your audience? Are you an introvert?
Use this planner to record your daily notes about your efforts to reach out and meet someone. I didn’t want to create a planner with a ton of blank pages, so I’ve included 53 quotes about perseverance, plus 74 ideas to try, including several social media tactics used by marketing professionals.
☛ ☛ ☛ The Companion Connections Worksheet & Instructions
It didn’t some like it was enough to just log meetings, so I took it further by creating a spreadsheet to see results.
Collect contact information, research about your contact and log interactions. Score sales prospects and categorize by industry or specialty. Sample data included with instructions to get started.
Grab your planner now on Etsy with the link below.
🆓Freebie
I have taken this free Instagram Course from Alex Tooby and recommend it highly. If you are struggling to make Instagram work for you, try this first. I haven’t seen anything else quite like it. It’s well worth your time.
🛣 Roads Less Traveled Must-See: Charming Victorian Seaport in Washington State
PNW Victorian Seaport’s Colorful History
Shaped by Indians, Chinese, sailing, lumber and dreams of a railroad
Learn stories of a Pacific Northwest shaped by local tribes, smugglers, devastating fires and a waterfront of saloons and brothels with a more gentile uptown with churches and schools.
All these tales belong to Port Townsend, WA, a small town on the Olympic Peninsula, where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound, known for its passion to preserve its history and Victorian architecture from the late 1800’s.
⏩Next Time
A Look at Statements Of Work:
9 Elements for your client agreements because a stitch in time saves clients as well as contractor grief and reputation.
Tackling a Statement of Work agreement before you shake hands and start a project could save a lot of heartache down the road, in time, money, and reputation, and can make your process with each client that much more enjoyable.
🍮Recipe: Delicata Squash Recipe
Fast, easy, delicious fall side dish recipe
So easy and simple to make a delightfully sweet fall squash side dish in minutes. Slice, saute and serve.
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