Yesterday was a little bit disruptive for a couple reasons. The first is that we were moving into a housesit so it took a chunk of my time to move.
Then there were a couple of other reasons why I didn’t achieve my hours:
- I had a podiatrist appointment in the morning which is important for my health and hard to get, so I went to that before going into the housesit.
- My eating was out of control again and I wasted valuable time going to the supermarket and getting food, and then eating it. I should’ve sat down and reminded myself that I can act in spite of how I feel.
Today is going to be a busy day but I want the first block to be 7.30am-1.00pm with no disruptions. This would at least give me 5.5 hours for the day before I have some chores to do, and I can come back and squeeze out a few more hours later on.
Once again, I don’t have a lot of work to do today.
My emails are pretty clean, I haven’t got any leads, and I haven’t got any responses from the first 1,000 flyers that I handed out this week.
We’re in a pretty tricky time economy but there is a way through this and I just need to figure it out and come out stronger on the other side.
Figuring out how to get business when you have no leads and little budget is tricky, but I think it’s also going to force me to be creative.
At the core of what I’m trying to achieve, I’m trying to find people with money and problems, who think that I can help solve their problem in exchange for some of their money. Finding the people who either know, or don’t know, that they have a problem I can solve is the key here.
Obviously if we could drop a verified notification on the phone of every person in New Zealand, I could find work. Then the extent to which they think I can help, through my messaging, will define how much money they will pay me.
Here are some low-cost ideas I have for getting work:
- Networking – get in touch with people and remind them of what I do and let them know that I’m looking for people to work with
- This is normally a mid-long term play when it comes up in conversation that people in your network are having
- But we might be able to speed this up by contacting people who are dealing with others that might have problems I can solve
- LinkedIn – a great platform in that the majority of business owners are on it and little timewasters.
- Normally long-term play because it takes time to build up the following through consistent action. It might take a year to build up the following that would mean my posts get enough eyeballs to generate leads.
- I could make a short-term play by asking for work however that will start to look desperate and drive away some followers.
- Flyers – low cost and cuts through some of the online competition/noise to get in front of people locally
- Seek – these are free leads. Companies saying they have jobs needing to be filled, then its on us to figure out how to service them.
I don’t know where my work is going to come from, but regardless, I will be in front of my computer until 1pm without distractions trying to figure it out.