People love Facebook games. Personally I don’t get it and tire easily of them. But of course, everyone has likes and dislikes.
But there is a downside.
The notifications that appear on the right side of your screen can really hurt you. Take for example, the case of your friend who always tells you they are swamped at work. But whenever you are on facebook you notice they are playing a game.
Now, what if one of their clients (or boss) noticed this in the middle of a work day? Worse, imagine this person was behind with a deliverable? I don’t know about you, but this would give me a pretty low impression of the person. The problem is that people’s personal and professional lives become intertwined in social media. If a client friends you, you aren’t going to reject them. So be aware. Its one thing for clients to see you listen to Captain and Tennille music on Spotify during the day, it is another to broadcast to the world you are fooling around rather than working.
As a Patriots fan living and working in the Boston area I can’t help but be impressed with their 4-0 start.
They have their top tight-end (Gronkowski) out due to injury and another in jail. They lost a Hall of Fame wide-out in Wes Welker to Denver. The replacement for Welker, Danny Amedola has been hurt as well.
So who is Brady throwing to? Well a couple of rookies and no name free agents. Top it off they just lost one of their the best defensive player in Wilfork.
So how are they 4-0? Good question.
I think it’s a pretty simple answer: It is the system. Coach Belichick has put a system in place where he can move parts around and bring in unheralded players to fill holes. Then somehow he gets the whole thing to mesh. Not easy, but it has been proven over and over.
So the question is what is this have to do with our business?
Again, good question. Well it is the system. This is the lesson I takeaway from watching the Pats.
You have to put in place a system that is consistent. One that you know works. You have to focus on your strengths as a business owner. For me that strength is our management of websites. We are known for turning around support requests the same day. And that is something we never want to lose. So the system I have in place is pretty simple, we focus on maintaining websites for people and we answer those request immediately. (for other companies, website maintenance is secondary and they don’t want to do the work) WE set aside time each day to get these things done. This of course is hard because we never drop the ball on all of the new work we take in.
No I don’t consider myself to be like Coach Belichick. He is a genius. I am just a hard-working guy with a great system in place.
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