Sunday, March 1, 2020
Today is a great day to sit in my skivvies and work. I need to work at least an hour on the first of each month no matter on which day of the week it lands. The first of each month is statistics day. It is the one day of the month I record email subscribers, social media followers, YouTube views, and other relevant business statistics. I think my numbers are a good snapshot of how my business and my client’s businesses are doing. I work with small, local businesses so they do not have 50,000 followers or subscribers, but their numbers continue to trend upward.
My seven-year-old, Mika has had at least 100 views for her YouTube channel videos for the past three months. That is awesome news because we did not post any videos for 14 months while I was on bedrest and starting my slash and burn chemotherapy treatment. We had 13 videos posted from early 2018, but the three months before we started posting new videos at the end of June 2019, she was down to single digit combined views. Mika now has one video that individually has more than 100 views and several more videos getting close. Mika’s channel has 29 subscribers; only 971 to go until we can monetize her channel.
Different statistics are important to different businesses. Mika has a Facebook page and Twitter profile for her YouTube channel, but other very young children do not use social media, so she has very few followers. Mika does not use social media; I manage her accounts. YouTube subscribers and views, and email subscribers are the only numbers relevant to Mika. One of my clients has had her Facebook page likes steadily grow, and her customers like to interact with her there so that is a number most important to her.
I needed to do a little personal work for my business today also. I have a busy work and medical week ahead of me. I have three social media clients I need to program content for into the summer. I need to change the schedule I prepared for one of them because she had some changes in her business. Once I update the images and text I need, I can probably start programming her new schedule on Saturday. The old schedule is already programmed so there will not be dead air if it takes me longer than expected.
My whole day Wednesday will be spent getting my scan done. Thursday, Mika has the day off from school and most my day will be spent at wound care. Friday, Mika has the day off from school and I have an appointment with Dr. Doom and Gloom. It looks like a bad week to try to do client work plus the extra work I need to do for my business. As I write it out loud, it seems impossible and it is already 4:00 p.m. today. By the time I finish writing this today, it will be supper time and I will be done doing any work for the day.
I have not been suffering from the afternoon super chill I wrote about several days ago, so I do not know if my siesta plan is a solution or a happy coincidence yet. Since I will be running the streets four out of five days this week, I may yet get a chance to test my theory out. I should go to lunch with Mika at school on Tuesday, but then I would be out of the house all five days and it is simply not warm enough to commit to it.
Mika and I took the weekend off from house cleaning because she has been doing such a good job the past few weekends and tomorrow we will skip recording videos for her YouTube channel because we are ahead and I did not choose jokes yet. I got quite a bit accomplished this week, yet I still feel behind.
My piece of advice to you is to enjoy a day at home in your skivvies. When I call my son and ask him to do a task for me on the weekend, his standard response is, “But that would require me to put on pants.” My pants and shirt look better hanging up in my closet than they would have on my body. As to lunch on Tuesday, “that would require me to put on pants.”
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.
Today is a great day to sit in my skivvies and work. I need to work at least an hour on the first of each month no matter on which day of the week it lands. The first of each month is statistics day. It is the one day of the month I record email subscribers, social media followers, YouTube views, and other relevant business statistics. I think my numbers are a good snapshot of how my business and my client’s businesses are doing. I work with small, local businesses so they do not have 50,000 followers or subscribers, but their numbers continue to trend upward.
My seven-year-old, Mika has had at least 100 views for her YouTube channel videos for the past three months. That is awesome news because we did not post any videos for 14 months while I was on bedrest and starting my slash and burn chemotherapy treatment. We had 13 videos posted from early 2018, but the three months before we started posting new videos at the end of June 2019, she was down to single digit combined views. Mika now has one video that individually has more than 100 views and several more videos getting close. Mika’s channel has 29 subscribers; only 971 to go until we can monetize her channel.
Different statistics are important to different businesses. Mika has a Facebook page and Twitter profile for her YouTube channel, but other very young children do not use social media, so she has very few followers. Mika does not use social media; I manage her accounts. YouTube subscribers and views, and email subscribers are the only numbers relevant to Mika. One of my clients has had her Facebook page likes steadily grow, and her customers like to interact with her there so that is a number most important to her.
I needed to do a little personal work for my business today also. I have a busy work and medical week ahead of me. I have three social media clients I need to program content for into the summer. I need to change the schedule I prepared for one of them because she had some changes in her business. Once I update the images and text I need, I can probably start programming her new schedule on Saturday. The old schedule is already programmed so there will not be dead air if it takes me longer than expected.
My whole day Wednesday will be spent getting my scan done. Thursday, Mika has the day off from school and most my day will be spent at wound care. Friday, Mika has the day off from school and I have an appointment with Dr. Doom and Gloom. It looks like a bad week to try to do client work plus the extra work I need to do for my business. As I write it out loud, it seems impossible and it is already 4:00 p.m. today. By the time I finish writing this today, it will be supper time and I will be done doing any work for the day.
I have not been suffering from the afternoon super chill I wrote about several days ago, so I do not know if my siesta plan is a solution or a happy coincidence yet. Since I will be running the streets four out of five days this week, I may yet get a chance to test my theory out. I should go to lunch with Mika at school on Tuesday, but then I would be out of the house all five days and it is simply not warm enough to commit to it.
Mika and I took the weekend off from house cleaning because she has been doing such a good job the past few weekends and tomorrow we will skip recording videos for her YouTube channel because we are ahead and I did not choose jokes yet. I got quite a bit accomplished this week, yet I still feel behind.
My piece of advice to you is to enjoy a day at home in your skivvies. When I call my son and ask him to do a task for me on the weekend, his standard response is, “But that would require me to put on pants.” My pants and shirt look better hanging up in my closet than they would have on my body. As to lunch on Tuesday, “that would require me to put on pants.”
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.