Lisa Hendrickson is the owner of Call That Girl. She is an Outlook Expert and Microsoft 365 Consultant.
It’s time for a Call That Girl spring fling! Out with the old, in with the new! I’m very excited to move ahead with a few new ideas I have been working on for the past 2 months. I know how I am…I get bored when things get too blah. I need fresh!
As many of you know, I change up my tag line every so often. My new tagline is “the next fresh thing”. My friend Mary Chapa has been helping me with the taglines as she has been following my entrepreneurship and listening to all my stories since fall of 2008. She knows me and the business, where I have been and knows where I want to be. Being the next fresh thing has meaning. For me, it’s starting to let go of the past things and finding new fresh things to do with my life and business. As much as I love and adore the social media and all of that, there is more to advertising and marketing online than just Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter. As part of my entrepreneurism, it also excites me to find the new fresh things so follow along with the adventures!
With that said, my blog will now have some new entries. I will continue to give “tips and tricks”…but in addition, I will have a category for “On the road with Lisa”. I will start blogging about my crazy days on the road in the Twin Cities area. I have a friend who is also going to help me eat healthy on the road (seems I eat at Holiday Gas Station too much)…so she will be coming up with a new “on the road diet” for me too. This will be a challenge for her because she is coming up with all the healthy choices from all the fast food places and Holiday Gas Stations. I laughed when we thought of the idea, but it makes sense if you are on the road as much as I am. Funyons is far from healthy, but easy to eat in my truck.
On to other things…I had to work yesterday and am now working today too. No time off for this girl. I have one computer in the shop that crashed and the client hadn’t backed up any of the family pictures. I have the computer on the backup recovery cd and so far have found 6000+ pictures, so he will be a happy guy. Today I have 2 clients in Bloomington and oddly…they are neighbors. Seriously too, like right across the street from each other. Then I will go and spend some money at Target. As much as I hate Target, I need some stuff and Walmart in Bloomington is closed for now. Then off to Petco to get my dog washed and clipped. Then to close my Sunday, I will go to my fitness center and walk 2 miles. It’s much easier for me to walk 2 miles on the treadmill than actually walk 2 miles on the streets.
That’s it, today’s blog is done. Enjoy your Sunday folks!
Today I have worked pretty much non stop since 7am. I went to a BNI visitor day for the Fireside group in Minnetonka with my buddy John Eichten from Escape Key. The group was interesting and the format was pretty cool. I haven’t been to a BNI group before (well, not since 5 years ago anyway)…and thought it was time I checked it out. Everyone got their time to speak and then they has some presentations and the visitors got a minute to chat, etc. I gave a carpet cleaning company a referral to come clean our parking garage where I live, there is gross sand everywhere!
Then I was on the road after that. I conducted a private LinkedIn session to a small group of 12 in Eden Prairie, they seemed to have enjoyed it and appeared they learned a bit about how to network. Then off to a clients house in Plymouth to fix her printer and docking station. Then off to another client in Plymouth who just needed to learn a few things since she upgraded her technology…then off to buy a card scanner from a guy off craigslist in Hopkins!
Score! Turns out he is on LinkedIn and works in the computer industry….talk about networking via craigslist, I rule yo.
Then down to south Bloomington to fix up some old computers from another client and she is getting a new computer, yay for her! I love it when clients buy new. It’s like buying a new toy.
Then home. Well, a short detour to SuperAmerica for food and stuff.
Now I am home, about to pass out, but must blog! My blog hits are higher than my website at this point, so I will blog for the cause!
Up and at ’em at my normal time I guess. I was supposed to be at a networking event, but I just couldn’t get out of bed to be there at 7am. I tried though, my alarm snooze went off 8 times. I had a feeling around 5:46 that I was doomed to miss it. So I will have to meet a big group of folks another way I guess.
I have a busy day, going to a client’s house in Eagan and then doing a tour of a business down in Eagan to see if we can do business together. I love finding good partnerships! I have an announcement this Friday that is super exciting btw…so watch for that!
Then it’s off to the office to do mad phone support calls. I have 3 booked today and my intern Hassan is coming in to work on a few marketing ideas we have brewing. Then I believe it’s a good night to take my pup to the dog park. I hope I don’t run into the crazy lady again.
Woke up today in a pretty good mood I must say. I have a weird calendar this week so far and I’m sure it will just get weirder! It’s networking season, woo hoo! That means I have to be up at the crack of dawn 2 mornings to be out in the far burbs at 7am. I will do it! I just don’t think I will be awake….
I have 3 events booked this week, and 3 next week. The winter blah is over for me and it’s time to get back out there. I will be much happier networking with my new business cards, but they won’t be in for awhile:( boo. I am really excited though to get out there with the new cards! They are shiny black with the new metropolitan logo….they look pretty cool if you ask me.
Here is this week’s top 9 referring site for Call That Girl! I like seeing how folks are finding that girl.
Direct hits: 245
Google referrals 133
1. projectlinkitforward.com 93
2. linkedin.com 71
3. minneapolis.craigslist.org 27
4. stthomas.edu 17
5. elizaoneinc.com 9
6. mail.google.com 9
7. facebook.com 8
8. .mail.yahoo.com 6
9. callthatgirl.wordpress.com 5
As I said, it’s Monday am…I am still thinking about going back to bed for a smidge, but I know I will be much happier if I just stay up and get my day rolling. Lots to do this week! Cya!
I got put in LinkedIn jail about a month ago. You get put in jail when you get to many folks that say “I don’t know this person”…and then you are restricted to inviting people to your network only if you have their email address.
Not a big deal, just a bit more of a hassle if you want a bigger network. To just prove that I will continue to thrive on Linkedin without the “invite” by regular options, I am staying in jail. I won’t ask to be “released” and I bet I can still get to 3000 connections by end of summer.
I’m out to put my theory to the test! For me to do the manual labor for this, will only help me market and advertise, so thank you LinkedIn!
Just sayin’.
Happy Sunday everyone…I’m out to figure out a new way to market and connect!
