Giving A Porcupine A Bath

Getting the job done

April is almost over, can you believe it? Yesterday I was thinking about all the jobs I did for my clients this week where I had to come up with new ways to work familiar systems:

• Setting up an appointment system for someone who never had an online calendar before.
• Creating a first-name-only check in sheet that allowed each attendee to check and correct their registration info without revealing it to anyone else (I know, thank God for comments).
• Creating Tave workflows and emails practically from scratch. And then figuring out the best way to train my client - who'd never used Tave - to implement it.
• Learning a new (to me) CRM system and formatting it to fit my client's current templates.

Wedding professionals are always called on to do this

To use what they know and the experience they have, to figure out how to create things for their clients that they've never done before. It's like giving a porcupine a bath - you know how a bath works. Now you just have to get this squirming live animal you've never dealt with before into it, without getting stabbed to death. You've never giving a porcupine a bath before, obviously. But given your experience of baths, you have a good understanding of what questions to ask to get the right skills and tools to get the job done.

I know excel and google sheets. I know CRMs and how they work. And I know what info event professionals need. Which means the bath is a done deal.

But what if you didn't have the experience you needed? Or the time to figure it out or to do it? I talk about the concept a little more in this video:

https://youtu.be/qXr5jlqSG9IWhat particular tech or business project "porcupine" are you struggling with now? Let's talk: Go to my services page, take a look around and then contact me OR click here now to schedule a free 30 minute consultation.I'll  talk to you soon,Elizabeth

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach