Goal For February, Update

Will I make it? Hmmm . . .

Well, here we are 20 days into my February 21 day challenge goal of giving out 100 free service gift certificates, and I haven't broken 50 yet . . . As of Friday, I have only been able to give out 48 to certain business people, who I figure to be great centers of influence, and prospective customers for my service. Just researching businesses and trying to come up with a viable name list of people to see has taken extraordinary amounts of time.

I really had forgotten how difficult it is to contact people these days, and then to get them to give me an appointment. Getting through gatekeepers has been tremendously time consuming, and I haven't been particularly effective at this. I haven't been focused on sales for a couple of years now. Am I rusty! (this is not a question)

I will give out 100 by the end of this month though, even if I have to mail some of them out. Talking to someone and handing them material in person is much more effective, but even so, I want to get them into as many hands as possible quickly. Next month I will have another 100 to give out. And the next month . . . I really need to get good at this somehow. Meanwhile, I have my hands full servicing my present customers' needs. Maybe I will have to change strategies and mail them out to preserve my time in operations.

Regarding my walking goal of 100 km, I have only completed 57 km so far with only 8 days left. Tough month you could say. I will have to walk 6 km per day for the rest of February to hit my goal. I can do this . . .

Al Smith