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holy crow all the things I'm doing
May. 21st, 2003 02:54 pmToday I am a landlord and a small business owner. This must be how normal people feel.
The phone's ringing off the hook, the e-mails are pouring in on both these fronts, I'm double-fisting it with a hand-rolled cigarette hanging off my lip wondering when I even had the time to roll a cigarette. I haven't listened to a single cd all the way through today because of all the times I've paused it to take phone calls.
On the landlord front:
I'm trying to find someone to take over my lease (such as it is), mid-June so I can get my ass to LA. I placed an ad today and the responses are overwhelming; within, oh, three hours of placing the ad I've gotten close to thirty responses, talked to most of them on the phone, and have already shown the place to one guy with two more coming this evening and a bunch more Thursday and Friday.
On the small-business-owner front:
It seems that by hiring people to do some of this book marketing work for me I've doubled or tripled the amount of business our company's done in the last couple days. The people I'm paying $10/hour to make phone calls are already having more success than anyone else has had, and now we need to worry about sales and booking, not just making contacts. I placed an ad for help a couple days ago and I've gotten over a hundred responses, and have hired or contracted about five people to do the work. I've been on the phone or e-mailing all five of them today, and in turn relaying their progress to my boss and then the various authors my new employees represent. In exchange, the boss is sending me more work to do, and I'm farming it out as best I can. But of course now that the company's picked up and we have serious booking and sales to take care of my new freelancers want commission, or at least more than $10/hour, which is reasonable, so I've been negotiating salary increases with the boss and his partners and trying to figure out the best way to get us, and the employees, and the company, and me paid. Yesterday I was giving these people a cut out of my salary; now we've got to decide if it's worth it to get hard-core guerilla marketeers making calls on commission or whether we should just continue slogging through making half-assed calls at $10/hour. So I just drafted a proposal suggesting how to pay my new employees, which in turn needs to be addressed to the authors and publishers who've conscripted our services as book marketers, since now it looks like we're doing more work for them than they pay us for. And of course my employees are holding the phone, clamoring for their raises.
I also cleaned my room.
Holy day, batman.
The phone's ringing off the hook, the e-mails are pouring in on both these fronts, I'm double-fisting it with a hand-rolled cigarette hanging off my lip wondering when I even had the time to roll a cigarette. I haven't listened to a single cd all the way through today because of all the times I've paused it to take phone calls.
On the landlord front:
I'm trying to find someone to take over my lease (such as it is), mid-June so I can get my ass to LA. I placed an ad today and the responses are overwhelming; within, oh, three hours of placing the ad I've gotten close to thirty responses, talked to most of them on the phone, and have already shown the place to one guy with two more coming this evening and a bunch more Thursday and Friday.
On the small-business-owner front:
It seems that by hiring people to do some of this book marketing work for me I've doubled or tripled the amount of business our company's done in the last couple days. The people I'm paying $10/hour to make phone calls are already having more success than anyone else has had, and now we need to worry about sales and booking, not just making contacts. I placed an ad for help a couple days ago and I've gotten over a hundred responses, and have hired or contracted about five people to do the work. I've been on the phone or e-mailing all five of them today, and in turn relaying their progress to my boss and then the various authors my new employees represent. In exchange, the boss is sending me more work to do, and I'm farming it out as best I can. But of course now that the company's picked up and we have serious booking and sales to take care of my new freelancers want commission, or at least more than $10/hour, which is reasonable, so I've been negotiating salary increases with the boss and his partners and trying to figure out the best way to get us, and the employees, and the company, and me paid. Yesterday I was giving these people a cut out of my salary; now we've got to decide if it's worth it to get hard-core guerilla marketeers making calls on commission or whether we should just continue slogging through making half-assed calls at $10/hour. So I just drafted a proposal suggesting how to pay my new employees, which in turn needs to be addressed to the authors and publishers who've conscripted our services as book marketers, since now it looks like we're doing more work for them than they pay us for. And of course my employees are holding the phone, clamoring for their raises.
I also cleaned my room.
Holy day, batman.
