Four for Friday: Mark Your Calendar
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We’re back! On Fridays I bring you the best entrepreneur, workflow tech and tips I find from around the web. And we call it Four for Friday. Welcome!
Meet, Great, and Learn
For those of you in the Los Angeles area who are free on Tuesday, my networking group Rising Tide Pasadena is having our monthly meetup at the Courtyard Monterey Park hotel. The topic of the month is Inclusivity, and we’re going to talk about how to do a DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) audit of your business. Lunch will be hosted by the Courtyard, and we’re getting a tour of the newly renovated hotel, too. So, if you want a reason to leave the house and you think you’re going to be hungry on Tuesday, August 9th, reserve your spot and join us!
If you have Honeybook, you probably got an email/notification that “Smart Files” are coming. What are Smart Files? It’s a new way to combine your Honeybook templates to add more efficiency to the way you manage your clients. Like, for instance, getting paid for your photography mini-sessions and coaching appointments at the same time your client picks a time for them. I’m doing a webinar on Thursday, August 11th to show you what else you can do with them, too. Click here to sign up.
Honeybook is slowly rolling out Smart Files, if you want to check to see if you have them yet, here’s a short video I made this week:
4. I subscribe to James Clear’s newsletter (he wrote Atomic Habits), and this week he included a lovely poem by Danusha Laméris called “Small Kindnesses.” It’s not only a reminder how good we are to each other without even thinking about it, but also kind of a comment on the importance of good customer service:
"I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”
What else can I help you with right now? Remember, my Honeybook Hours are available for some one on one tutoring for your CRM or website. They’re only $75 an hour, so grab one now.
I’ll talk to you soon,
Elizabeth
