One of the cool features in macOS 26 (Tahoe) is the ability to use your screen as a ring light for video calls and recording (they call it EdgeLight). However, for various reasons, I don’t want to upgrade to Tahoe … Read More
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Zoom Networking, the Fortune is in the Follow-up
Zoom networking followup (or lack thereof) is the most essential task if you want to make Zoom networking effective. You could spend your whole week in Zoom networking meetings and never move your business forward if you don’t have good … Read More
Why “Sales” Sucks for Solo Consultants, and Trying to Fix It Just Makes It Worse
We’ve all experienced the attack of the aggressive salesman, chasing us across the car lot, shoving a business card at us while we’re just trying to grab a drink, calling and emailing incessantly, trying to wear down our resistance until … Read More
If your TODO list keeps growing, it’s no longer a TODO list
It’s an anxiety-producer. Because your time and energy are finite, an ever-growing TODO list means that tasks are piling up faster than you can process, delete, delegate, or complete them. This leads to the paradox of high-stress, high “business”, but … Read More
How not to ask for referrals
When your business depends on referrals, you should have a strategy and a process for generating those referrals. (Unfortunately, I’m an expert at screwing this up, having spent years (decades?) not doing anything intentional to generate the referrals that built … Read More
Not that I’m anti-AI…
It’s certainly nice to have excavators instead of having to dig ditches by hand. But if you never get any exercise, that’s not good, either. It’s great to have calculators and spreadsheets to do math, but we have no mathematical … Read More
AI for Solo Consultants: Your Intern, not Your Replacement
There’s a lot of talk about AI replacing and transforming jobs, which has some kernels of truth alongside a whole lot of AI-hype. It’s hard to throw an AI-generated rock without hitting a newly minted “AI Expert” or “AI Strategist”. … Read More
Selling a Porsche to a Honda Buyer
“It’s even smaller than I pictured, but I guess I can make it work. How much is it?” “$195,000.” “What? But the Honda I’m looking at is $30,000.” “Well, that’s a very different vehicle.” “I know. It has more room, … Read More
Inline editing for Contact fields
Like so many apps, Mimiran has screens to show you information about a record, and a corresponding screen to create or edit information for that record. This works well, but sometimes, you may want to edit information without switching over … Read More
Integrating Mimiran with Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
It’s easy to connect Mimiran to Kit (ConvertKit) to automatically add new Kit subscribers from Contacts created from Mimiran Lead Capture Forms. Note that if you update these Contacts in Mimiran (for example, perhaps you only ask for an email, … Read More