Day Six: The Socials

I’ve made some good progress. I haven’t written a plan, but I’ve made a plan for the plan. I’ve gone old-school. No business model canvas or sticky notes, just a list of fifteen headings, and a Trello board.

Looking down the list, some of the headings fill me curiosity and wonder, eg Sustainability and Social Impact and – believe it or not – SWOT Analysis. Others fill me with fear and dread, eg Funding Plan and Marketing.

The common theme is having to ask for anything. Asking for investment in the funding plan. Asking for attention with the marketing.

I know many people struggle with with this. Emma’s whole focus at the moment is visibility for her coaching business. (Emma, this is an example of a backlink. It’s not a very good one because my blog’s not that relevant to coaching, and as a new page on a new site, there’s no PageRank. But it certainly won’t do any harm.)

It’d be foolish to try to do this project without social media. I need to find a balance, though. Firstly, I want to spend zero time checking likes. And secondly, I don’t want to attract people who are only in it for the Insta opportunity. There might even be a phones, photography and technology use policy under the Community heading.

I am not on Instagram, but Monty is. He hasn’t posted in a while. I said I’d take a picture every day, so to kill two birds with one stone, here is today’s social media activity: