Today's work on/in the business - Tues 3 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (30mins)
2. Record business emails. (20mins)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 161 visits so going up again, 62 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 31% search, 30% direct and 39% referral traffic - search is staying up, keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 2.06 pages per visit, 2:06 average time on site is good - both these last figures mean that people generally actually read the information that's on the website and they've come up again, which is good. So overall, we just need to keep the trend going up. (10mins)
4. Continuing investigation of issue with IIS - sent next documentation to customer. (55mins)
5. Continue work on creation of an e-card. (4hrs 20mins)
6. Invoicing - the remaining one created on 1/8 sent out. (15mins)
7. Accounting. (5mins)
8. Review business consulting entries in Yellow Pages with a view to sending introductory email and brochure for Perfect Notes Virtual Assistant information. 2 sent. (1hr 15mins)
9. Networking - face to face. Monthly networking meeting as part of the NEIS support. Well, I'll add a blurb about this at the end... (3hrs 30mins)
10. Record contact details and work to be done from monthly networking night. (5mins)

Well... sometimes getting organised to go out to the monthly networking night seems like a lot of work... And then you have to stand up and say who you are and give a brief description of your business - which is a scary concept to me, as it's mostly a bunch of strangers... BUT we do it - I'm the only one of our group who has actually been to all of these (I think I missed one!).
So last night - it paid off for the second time!
Dave and I arrived and we signed in and got our name tags and were starting to think about getting something to eat and a coffee or soft drink. One of the guys that we've seen regularly at these nights, but don't usually do more than say hello to, came over to us. Turns out he's bought some software and can't get it to work - says that the only reason he came along tonight is because he remembered us and thought we could help him out! Stated that his time is too precious to waste on getting frustrated when he was pretty sure we could do it for him - so that's another customer!!!!
Then there's the actual meeting - really interesting, though a bit over the top, speaker who apparently was born in Frankston but now speaks all over the world and has offices in London, San Diego and Melbourne! Definitely thinking about going to another of his sessions.
So, we stay around outside afterwards, mostly to talk to Georg Beilharz about questions he had about tracking why people don't buy his software... Little bit more food, more soft drink... Chat to a lady who turns out to be the one from down the front who said she was a business coach - gave her a card and explained to her how I thought our businesses could profit from the interaction... Then another guy that I haven't seen before comes over and starts chatting... After going through the description of what his business is and the snazzy equipment they have, we get to the real purpose for him talking to me... So I have a WordPress website to look at and quote on putting the new graphics in place for!
See - this is why we go to the meetings each month. :-)