A "normal" day for an entrepreneur
• Caffeine-up
• Follow up with customers
• Analyze website traffic
• Move forward on strategy for growing customer base
• Tweak strategy for growing customer base
• Manage accounting activity
• Re-caffeinate
• Gain inspiration from a teammate (or the StartupNation community)
• Analyze sales
• Walk the dog (home-based businesses only)
• Shipping & receiving activity
• Interface with customers (all day long – pre-empting all other tasks)
• Realize that you forgot to eat lunch (but don’t do anything about it)
• Update some software
• Be wildly creative
• Grab a piece of fruit & eat ½ of it before losing attention to more important things
• Dance the jig because you just landed a big customer
• Fix the toilet
• Write a blog or update your website or record a podcast
• Read a blog, research competitive websites, listen to a podcast
• Be surprised when someone tells you about a world event that happened 2 weeks ago that you never heard about (Berlin Wall falling or hurricane hitting New Orleans kind of thing)
• Exercise to clear your head & think about new product/service ideas the whole time
• Write down the new outrageously great ideas while dripping sweat on the pad of paper
• Work another 4 hours doing everything listed above over again
• Fall exhausted into your chair, remembering that you forgot to eat dinner as you fall asleep with a HUGE smile on your face because you’re pursuing your dream life
May 17th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
You might want to add "Take a shower, get dressed and leave the house" to the list as a possibility. It’s 1:15 p.m. and I’ve yet to do any of those three things today.
- J.
Jeff Fisher
Engineer of Creative Identity
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May 17th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Well, if nothing else it is nice to know that you aren’t alone, although I’m not sure it is a typical day if you get to have some big wins and end up satisfied…
May 18th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Joel,
You forgot the part where you load up the Brink’s truck with all the money you made so they can take it to the bank.
R@
May 19th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
[blue][/blue] It’s nice to know that I’m not alone. Joel, you might want to add carving out time to go to the gym to only to think about all the work you have to do when you return home.
Deb