Must... avoid... this habit... -- Jun. 5, 2010
Yesterday's homework:
- Draft (and possibly send) Step 1 of the Fundraising Blitz!
- Deal with any NXNE/launch party stuff that comes up.
- Skim two old Billboards, flagging relevant articles for follow-up.
- Take an hour of me-time. This time, meditation and a quick workout in my room?
- Revise copy for the Privacy Policy & TOS!
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Okay, so last night I didn't quite get to bed when I was hoping to. Decided to stay up and do a bit more research into the Fundraising Blitz. Which meant that, today, I was kind of screwed for sleep.
Luckily, me sleeping in today turned out to be a plus: my parents needed me to walk and feed the dogs for dinner, and I would have been left car-less at the office had I gone. Go serendipity!
The bad news, though: my regular Friday work-hours got pushed much later. Which means that I only just finished stuff. Which means that this post will have no intelligent thought, only a summary of the day. Sorry!
Fundraising Blitz: all prepared for. Personal emails to each party have been drafted, to be reviewed and edited Monday (because 1AM on a Friday night isn't the time to send something like that).
NXNE: Nothing directly NXNE-related came in today. But the launch party on the other hand...
Did I just see myself write launch party? HELLS YES! If you're in Toronto over NXNE-week, come join us at the YouPhonics Launch Party Celebration Festival Deluxe! It shall be awesome. It also took a lot more out of today than I thought, as I deliberated on logistics, dealt with the charitable organization who will be receiving the proceeds from the VIP ticket sales, and manually filtered through most of my 2200+ Facebook friends for invites. (Nobody likes spam.)
Otherwise: development has progressed (AWESOMELY!), artists have been booked (AWESOME ONES!), and copy wasn't written (UNFORTUNATELY!).
All right. Now time to do a quick in-home workout, finally shower, and say hi to some friends...
What? You thought this Montrealer would be home for the whole Friday night? As if!
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Lessons learned:
- Serendipity rocks.
- Charitable organizations really like it when events donate money to them.
- Launch parties are fun! But can be complicated.
Weekend/Monday's homework:
- Code that stuff for Dad.
- Push the red button on the Fundraising Blitz!
- Revise the Privacy Policy & TOS.
- If I eat lunch alone, read Billboard
- Randomly select an entry in the Music Purchasing Survey to win a prize.
- Preliminary review of the Music Purchasing Survey results.
- Invite the two people I promised super-ultra-early sneak peeks because they're awesome -- then get feedback.
- Draft marketing plan for the YouPhonics beta launch -- my mind will be scattered for NXNE, but the launch can't be!
Note: I know that there is no way in hell that I'll finish all of this homework on/by Monday. I'm hoping to make a lot of progress -- even finish -- #1, and get through most of #s 2-5. #6 will probably be more time-consuming than I give it credit for, and there will inevitably be NXNE stuff. I doubt I'll be able to think about #7 until Wednesday.
