08-2024: Monthly Summary

Hi Everyone,

I feel like there's a lot of irony in my last description, quoting not giving up from the greatest salesman and then not writing a summary in 4 months.

Honestly I totally forgot where I was at when I last wrote an update and realised that when I last made one, was when the boys went to Tamworth for a roadtrip and I was like oh I need to make sales. Here's the thing right, after I posted that, I think I made 0 sales that month. Now, I didn't get fired, what happened was I actually came back and 2 months later we all went to Cairns for 2 weeks where I had hit my PB of getting 10 sales for 2 weeks, so after that trip I was happy to have hit my goal.

Unfortunately a week after that trip, the company disbanded. So post that I followed my boss into selling water filters where we'd set appointments for people to sit and we would get paid for every closed appointment. Now since then there have been no closed appointments for the past month and nobody has really gotten paid, and he has gone to do real estate as well as closing water filter deals.

This then sortove brings us to the present day, where I am a operations consultant. Essentially for both the real estate business and water filter business, I handle the operations and analysis of both businesses to focus on bringing in as many qualified leads as possible so our closers can close them.

Essentially I might run a bit more ahead with "Major Marketing Management" since I love management, being able to be an operational consultant, running an analysis on why something isn't working, restructing an organisation and building a process workflow.

I must say however, it's fun and I feel like I'm building a portfolio of businesses that I can say I developed and managed for, but it's just unfortunate I'm only getting paid for 1 of them right now. Once I get them all having consistent good revenue though, I think I might just either waive a flat fee, or put a minimal flat fee and just have a stipulation of receiving profits from the parts I built. The only thing I'm really missing is having a team of just 2 people who can record videos and edit them really professionally, so if I'm recommending a shift in their marketing strategy for example, if they don't have one I can just call my guys and charge an ongoing fee for them.

Oh on top of that, because obviously I need a job to live, I'm working at an insurance comparison agency, it's pretty good honestly, and if I'm being totally honest, I think it's good that I've found it now, because had I found it when I was 19 when I was working as a debt collector, I don't think I would have left, I think I would have made good enough comissions that I would've wanted to stay and I think I wouldn't have the mindset I have now, of all or nothing because I would've been comfortable. It's a great place though, I enjoy and in the 2 weeks I've been there I feel like I've made good mates.

For fitness, I wish I could say I've made huge strides and i'm hitting big weight, and totally honestly I'm not, I've put nearly every ounce of effort I have into just trying to make these businesses work, doing meetings all the time, drafting documents, creating workflows and plans, I wish I could truthfully say I didn't have time, but the truth is if I just woke up at 5am I would have the time to go to the gym, but I was just lazy and didn't go :(

I plan on going to the gym, I will go today and for the next week, but I think as well, lately I've had so much stress financially and with just the work I'm doing, it got to me a little, it's not an excuse but it is the truth. I think having a schedule now of working out in the mornings before I go to my part-time will at the very least give me a schedule. Mon - Wed is part-time job; Thur - Sun is Major Marketing & Management.

I think usually after I do my updates I usually feel like these things are so major, like I have to make it or everything falls apart, and I still feel that a little, but I think also, shit happens. I feel pretty calm right now honestly, I know things for myself are tough financially, I know it's going to be tough for a while. This is just how the cookie crumbles though and I don't know there's not much I can say, I do feel bad though and I am really grateful to my girlfriend since she has been happy to deal with my shit of being stressed and having meetings constantly even when I'm with her.

Plans for September? I think it's just to make sure I'm staying on the ball, one thing I was thinking I might have a CRM of my own, or like a task manager of my own, so I can I start to assign people under me and not have to think too much about it, and then I can have a visual representation of all my clients and what needs to be done for them. I'm keen to see how this all goes though, how far I can take MMM and what my biggest client wil be and just focusing for the next couple months on growing a DM team who can be creative and I can stay as the main one bringing in clients and doing analysis, setting up back-ends for a intial set-up fee then charging ongoing marketing fees.

Thinking about all this business and goals and whatever, I think what's keeping me chilled out honestly is seeing it from the macro. I'm reminded of the hopeful inspiration from Walter Mitty,

To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind the walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.

I'll come back to that quote in due time.

- Mariano