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Take Your Summer Back
Are you ready to take your summer back?
Talking Points
- How client work downshifts in the summer
- What you can do instead of client work during the slow season
- Planning marketing for the fall
- Taking care of things that you’ve been putting off or that weren’t high enough priority to get done at other times of the year
- What energizes you during the summer months
- Using the block of time to get yourself ready for the next thing or set yourself up for a new phase in your business
- Diversifying your income streams
- Ranking clients
- Rethinking your technology choices
- Cleaning up broken links and stale language
- Avoiding the hamster wheel
Quotable Quotes
“There’s all these little things that you can do that don’t usually make it up to the top of your priority list.” –JS
“Take your summer back. Don’t just sit there at the whim of the client” –RM
“There’s something about having a great idea to work on in the summer that’s energizing.” –RM
“So when things slow down it does, for me at least, give me that headspace to be like “let’s sit back for a second and think about what’s working, what’s not working as well and what I could do to do more of the stuff that’s working.” –JS