Lisa Hendrickson is the owner of Call That Girl. She is an Outlook Expert and Microsoft 365 Consultant.
Many of you know of me because of LinkedIn. It’s really the place to be for now and the next few years. Last night Rich Fiene came over to my place and we shared some refreshments and had a nice long discussion about LinkedIn. If you don’t know who Rich is, he’s currently the #1 LinkedIn guy for Minneapolis/St. Paul. I met Rich last summer while we were both attending a LinkedIn workshop held by Mike O’Neil from Integrated Alliances. If you don’t know who Mike is, he’s a LinkedIn rockstar! I don’t know his current stats with LI, but he was #41 in the world and does have 21,000 contacts at this point. If you think I’m a LinkedIn maniac, you should meet this guy.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoneil (feel free to invite him!)
Rich and I discussed many topcis in regards to LinkedIn, how we got to our levels of expertise and where we want to see LinkedIn go. As the manager of LinkedMinnesota, I see many opportunities for LinkedIn to grow and help our group. Rich is also the Director of the Project: Link It Forward that I founded last December. We are in discussions for the 2nd round of PLIF to be called PLIF 2.0. Watch for details, this is an exciting project!
You can invite Rich at http://www.linkedin.com/in/richfiene
As the conversation flowed from one issue to another, Rich and I have learned that we both are well connected on LinkedIn and both are using it in 2 totally differents way. We also discussed how there are so many other folks out there that are in our positions doing it their own way too. It’s almost crazy to think of the value of LinkedIn, if you make it work for you! Not everyone can do it the same way, you have to figure that out for yourself and your comfort level.
While I was ending the evening, I got my 4th client call that day, he was the 3rd client from Linkedin. It’s working for me as an advertising and marketing tool, but it took well over a year to finally see weekly results. Using LinkedIn takes time and you have to put time into it.
Just sayin’ 🙂
Happy Tuesday everyone!
Thank God it’s Monday…my weekend was boring and I actually couldn’t wait to get back to work. I did work a smidge though, I had 2 clients so that helped a bit. I also did the big Ikea run on Saturday. Yeah, I am stupid. Going to Ikea on a Saturday is like going to Target on Black Friday. I survived and only had to be slighty irritating to one sales lady. I asked her “Do you know where the shelves are, the standing up ladder type ones that you decorate with”..(because I don’t know the real name for the desglinka??) and she said, “you know, I don’t think we sell those”.
Duh, yes you do! Ikea sells about everything in the world. So I said in a direct tone “Yes you do, I saw it online…you just don’t know what I’m talking about” and left her in the dust while I blazed to the “do it yourself” area. Then I found a smart sales person who knew exactly what I meant and pointed me right to the shelves. I kinda feared buying the “do it yourself”…I wasn’t interested in putting together shelves for 5 hours, but that’s how it goes with Ikea right?
Turns out I only had to spend about 30 minutes for both shelves, yay! I love the shelves too! Perfect for what I needed and I spent under $40 for both. Happiness for me over a boring weekend:)
Today I have a lunch appointment, then a client. I’m free before and after, so today should be a breeze. I have a monster to do list, so I hope I can chop away at that!
Have a great Monday! Lisa
For the past 8 weeks or so, Call That Girl has been a busy little bee. Seems that I had some good juju come my way when I moved into my new apt. The week after I moved in, I was slamming with 12-18 clients a week. This week has been my first break…I still had 10 clients, but wasn’t “slamming” on the road, back to backing and working furiously every night to keep up with communications.
A girl breathed!
What does this tell me? It tells me that universe is giving what I can handle. I saw the movie “The Secret” and loved it so much I took notes the 2nd time around. I first saw this movie during the first 5 months of being on my own with Call That Girl. Those days were tough with very few clients, hoping everyday I would get my big break….and wanting so bad for my business to flourish! I still have those notes from The Secret and read them on occasion. I read them again when I was slamming busy a few weeks and realized…the universe is testing me right now. How far can I go without needing help?
I attended an ewomen networking luncheon yesterday and the founder of ewomen, Sandra Yancey was the keynote speaker. I saw her last year too when she came to Minneapolis. Listening to her speak…is like living my past year and half. Not every person out there in business right now is killing themselves. Suffering the lowest of the lows and feeling the highest of the highs. Sandra has and I am too…all the time. Some days I come home and feel like I’m going to just pass out. But everyday I get up and do it all over again with fresh energy. I am building a million dollar business for sure. I decided that the first month I was out on my own and I think about it every single day. Every day that I am out driving to a client, everyday that I go to my office on Nicollet and everyday I take my puppy on walks. I live and breathe my business. It’s something that when you have it, you have it. It never leaves you.
To close, I enjoy those moments of exhaustion to be honest. I knew I put in a hard day and helped many folks. I am working on some personal goals right now to help me manage all of this as it’s only going to be crazier, but I am so looking forward to it!
Happy Friday folks!
The Truck
I put the bling on the truck right away when I put CTG into action, outside of referrals…it’s one of my top marketing ideas that work!
Today is a blah day out there isn’t it! I hope the thunderstorms come though as I love a good storm…
This week has been very interesting….a slow week with clients, but a good week to get “stuff done”. It’s a good toss sometimes. When you are constantly busy for weeks on end, a slow week makes you realize how crazy you were and how you want to feel at the end of a busy day. I want to have energy still. Many days I would come home so tired, I would do nothing. I don’t want life to be that way! But some will say, “You’re building a business and doing whatever it takes to make it work”…yes, but I don’t have to feel completely exhausted at 6:00 either.
A few things I have done to lift those spirts is wake up saying to myself, “I will not feel exhausted at 5:00!”…and keep that in mind as the day rolls on. When I get home, I’m taking on my dog on longer walks to give myself a quick lift of night energy. And I’m drinking a lot more water. When you are on the road and not staying hydrated, it’s drains you physically. I’m working on a few other things as the next few weeks pass to make this transition easier, so tips and tricks will come later on as they happen.
Today is a slacky stormy day, ending with a happy hour at Bar Abilene for LinkedMinnesota….should be fun! Ending with a night in the hot tub at my apt, woo!
I can feel it! I hope everyone had a great weekend! I drove down to see my family in Rochester on Sunday and boy did I have drama all day on Sunday! Hwy 52 was completely packed with the city brats all going home to see mama. It was seriously nuts….Hwy 52 is always nuts though on holidays.
It’s so refreshing to do small town stuff, as my family are just your basic small town family…we ate at the Eagles and had their Mother’s Day Buffet, which was actually quite good. We all celebrated with a bloody mary’s and some fun catching up and making fun of an absent family member.
I decided to take 35W home and what a mess that was! I am so glad I don’t have to commute that everyday. The orange cones that go on for 20 miles is enough to make one think they are watching Clockwork Orange.
Then as I was off to pick up puppy at the Downtown Dogs, a woman just about hit my truck. She was in the left lane and decided to turn right and totally skip a lane, MINE. I had to brake so hard all my stuff came flying to the front and jerked me around and now my car is making weird sounds. I didn’t even get a plate number. ugh…I don’t know if I can even file charges on an “almost accident”.
Ended my weekend with an incredible ending to the Celebrity Apprentice, SHAMWOW was that good! I am so glad Joan Rivers won! I really didn’t like that Annie Duke at all. Joan is one woman that I have always looked up to, she had taken her beatings and always bounced back better. I kinda feel that I have too in my life, each failure…brings on a better success for me.
To close up, my week is looking good. I have a full day of clients today (I had 8 on Friday btw) and I have a big event for ewomen network on Thursday, should be awesome with 150 women there.
tada! Later folks….
Lisa
