Lisa Hendrickson is the owner of Call That Girl. She is an Outlook Expert and Microsoft 365 Consultant.
You can’t just “call in sick” like the old corporate days. I usually have 5-8 items on my calendar everyday, so when I’m not feeling well, I have to reschedule or cancel everything. It’s not fun or something I enjoy doing. When you work for yourself, you also tend to not have so many sick days as you did in the corporate world. I noticed this early on in 2008.
I woke up today not feeling good. I cancelled all the interns today and asked them to work from home, kept all my phone appointments (as I can do those from home)…and am now heading back to bed for an hour to see how this pans out today.
Off for the day, happy blogging for the rest of you.
Edited to add: back on the horse! can put in a half day, woo! see you later Minneapolis…
Lisa
I’m beginning to wonder why I didn’t start my own business up years ago because owning my busines is just way too much fun!
Yesterday I met with Drew Beson a local artist about business and networking, this and that stuff at Stella’s. Drew’s quite the guy, if you haven’t seen his stuff, check out his website. Make sure to check out this “auction” link and watch the video. Crazy stuff there. It’s almost amazing to watch. http://www.drewbesonart.com/
Today my parents are coming up to see my new apt, see my new office and I’m taking them out to lunch at Bar Abilene. They don’t come to the cities all that often, so it’s a treat to show off all my stuff up here. I was hoping to have a new tattoo to show off, but didn’t get that done yet. Any recommendations on a good local artist?
Finally, I’m meeting up with Mike O’Neil of http://www.integratedalliances.com/ He is the founder and CEO. If you don’t know Mike, he’s my LinkedIn mentor. I got very lucky and met him last year via a friend from college. Mike is so awesome!!! He lives in Denver and comes to Minneapolis twice a year or so, each time we try to make time to catch up. Mike is in the top 40 LinkedIn. So when he gives a seminar, you should try to make it. He knows his stuff.
Tomorrow and Friday are just office days, but they are filling up fast. Have I told you folks how much I love my new office? Going to work is so much fun now! I have room to work!
Ok, that’s it for today! See you all soon:)
Lisa
Hey everybody, Hassan here blogging to you from our Call That Girl workshop. Hope everyone had a wonderfull weekend, mine was pretty low key which is the way I like it! 🙂 Just want to start off by throwing a shout out to the MN Twins for embarassing the White Sox yesterday. I’d also like to say goodluck to Joe Mauer in the home run derby tonight! For those of you who haven’t ready my bio on Linkedin, I love the Twins and baseball in general, I also love eating great food. Yesterday I went to a new restaurant with my girlfriend called The Blue Door off Selby ave, in St. Paul. The food was awesome, and if you love Juicy Lucy’s, you have to check them out!
On to some Call That Girl news…
We met with a video design company this afternoon to start discussing some viral marketing concepts. During the brainstorm session the team’s ideas were flowing, and we developed some pretty cool ideas for 2-3 minute videos. Look on the website in the next couple weeks to see our first finished video, I am sure it will be good for at least a few laughs. My project is coming along nicely, I met with a printing company Friday afternoon to go over some estimates on cost for our promotional materials. Tomorrow I meet with the business development manager at Reboot, to finalize the marketing “stuff”, then we will be ready for their grand opening. The date is still yet to be determined, but the Reboot store in Uptown should be open for business very soon. That is all for now, hopefully my blog was able to bring a little energy back into your afternoon. See you all next week!
Random computer fact of the week:
70% of computer virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicats!
Posted by Rasheem Jones, ITT Tech intern
Reminder! Sometimes your firewall is off because it is being managed by your anti-virus program. If you have Norton, McAfee, PC Chillin, Trend Micro, WebRoot, etc…they often time manage everything for you.
Posted by Rasheem Jones, ITT Tech intern
Today is my first day of blogging EVER!!
Please bear with me.
I am a senior marketing major at the University of St. Thomas, and recently began an internship here at Call That Girl!, a locally owned and operated computer repair company. My internship is focusing on marketing, and I am doing things that are teaching me skills that will be very important to my professional career. I am currently in the middle of a LinkedIn project designed to bring CTG revenue. My boss, Lisa Hendrickson, is a LinkedIn specialist and runs corporate training seminars and one-on-one sessions with VIPs business owners, sales representatives, and others interested in utilizing this great marketing tool.
My job was to first “scrub,” or go through a database of LinkedIn contacts and select who would most likely benefit from a corporate training. Candidates included but were not limited to: directors, channel managers, business developers, and sales people. The database of about 1,800 people was scrubbed a total of four different times before a finalized list was created for the corporate sect.
After the database was scrubbed, an email was created to go out to the potential clients. I wrote the preliminary verbiage and one of Lisa’s colleagues, Connie Anderson, helped out a great deal and made some necessary changes to make the email very professional and more appealing. Lisa and I tweaked a few things and the first emails were sent out to the corporate folks last Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Thirty-two emails were sent on July 1st, 50 were sent on July 6th, and I sent out 50 more today, July 8.
So far we have not received any responses. That is ok because this is not the type of thing that someone will usually respond to the day they receive it. There is plenty of time for them to think about it and decide it would be valuable to them. These emails also have value because they mention CTG, which will also hopefully bring in revenue when contacts see this and decide to become clients. All of the corporate emails are to be sent out hopefully by next week! After this, I will take my scrubbed database and tailor the email to VIPs such as CEO’s, owners, founders, and we will start the process again. It is very exciting to have this project well underway because I am looking forward to tackling the next project.
I am anxious to begin working on our senior center project, which is the next thing we will be undertaking. A project planning day is needed to knock out exactly what we will be doing to market to senior centers in the area. We already have some of the groundwork laid, but there is a ton of research to do and that is primarily what I will be doing for the next couple of weeks. I need to figure out which senior centers to market to, and how we will do that effectively. Thank you and please keep reading!!!
