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
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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
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
Who should I talk to next?
It’s one of the big dilemmas– we know we need to do a better job of following-up, but with limited time and limited energy, how do we know who to follow up with? I know I’ve spent hours staring at … Read More
Zoom Mistakes– Beyond Lighting and Audio
You can find a ton of tutorials on making sure you have decent lighting and sound for your Zoom calls, and I think most people seem to do a pretty good job with these (although the fancy video backgrounds are … Read More
Solopreneurs sure like to make sales and marketing hard on themselves
“Not me! I want to be as easy and painless as possible”, I said. But was that really true? Against my wishes for easy sales and marketing, I was doing a number of things to make it harder, instead of … Read More
AI to make adding contacts easier
AI is the big buzzword, and advances have made it so anyone can get an always on-call, always patient intern. (Here are a few ways I use ChatGPT to help me get contact info into Mimiran.) Now you can paste … Read More
The Olympics are the wrong inspiration
This weekend I finally got a chance to watch some of the Paris Olympics. (Amazing drama, especially in the men’s 100m dash.) While I enjoyed watching and listening to some of the expert commentary, I realized that it’s easy to … Read More
Sales and marketing automation vs. organization
There are lots of tools for sales and marketing automation, some quite powerful and effective, in the appropriate situation. But all of these tools will fail if you need to have real relationships and you try to “outsource” your side … Read More