Best. Day. Ever. -- Jul. 1, 2010
Ye olde homework:
- Push out more invites -- not necessarily all of them, as it's a holiday and I'm finally devoting time to see a Montreal friend or two (haven't seen anyone beyond work capacity or family in over 2 weeks).
- Finish 80% of the press kit.
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Whoa. It's been a week. Umm... been a little hectic here, sorry. I hope you/Future Me understand/s.
Aside from that meeting last week, other stuff I've been dealing with includes:
- Two lengthy meetings, one directly business-related, one indirectly so
- Sending out craploads of invites (and I still have a ton left to send!)
- Starting to actually track the day-by-day growth of YouPhonics (can't believe I nearly forgot about this)
- Reclaiming my life outside of YouPhonics
- My grandfather's unveiling
- A one-year anniversary of my grandfather's passing memorial with my brother
- Doing an in-depth check-out of the competition
- Putting together the best press kit ever (YP Insiders, get ready to see it and benefit from my research! Assume the email's coming later this week or early next.)
- Completely retooling my pitch deck
- Offering to help a girl who seems awesome based on an article I read about her
But none of that was why today was the best day ever. (By the way, have I already used that title? Perhaps...)
Today was the best day ever for the following reasons:
- I woke up today to find 30 new emails in my work inbox. By the time that registered for me -- 30 new non-spam emails overnight! -- it had grown to 50.
- This was because Brad McCarty (an awesome dude I've never met) of TNW (an awesome blog I found last week and immediately jumped into my must-reads) wrote this awesome piece about YouPhonics.
- The post has been tweeted 81 times, according to Tweetmeme.
- It generated at least 10 more tweets I'm aware of -- including this one from China.
- There was even a small discussion going in the comments.
- I was interviewed for another blog post -- again, with one of the blogs I actually read regularly.
- Friends (and parents) were immensely supportive -- I even got a message from an old, childhood friend I haven't seen in years.
- I got to eat a homemade lunch with my Mother and Brother, since I was working from home.
- I got to play with my dogs for 20 minutes.
- Virgin America and Klout gave me a free trip to San Francisco on Virgin (the whole #VXToronto thing). Going for a week in August with my developers and others!
- We finally got to announce the local 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 event I've been planning.
- Two meetings were confirmed with people I've been really hoping to sit down with.
- I'm about to go spend the night with friends, only to continue sending out invitations (and applying for a government grant) tomorrow!
I know I missed something/many things. But seriously, each moment of today was better than the last.
In fact, it was so good that I felt it was my duty to do something nice for someone. So, when a friendly acquaintance posted on Twitter about an awesome new bourbon and how she wanted someone to buy it for her, I volunteered. And now she's getting fancy bourbon soon! And I may even get to participate -- she lives in San Francisco, so if there's anything left in the bottle in early August, I get to taste it too. :)
All right, too much gloating. Time to finally put a shirt on, walk the dogs, and head out for a small celebration.
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Lessons learned:
- Awesomeness begets awesomeness.
- I was a much better writer than I gave myself credit for.
- The emails... they just don't stop!
Tomorrow's homework:
