Episode 017: Create an Escape Plan for Your Bad Day
Last week’s challenge: Apply to Speak at an Event or a Conference Folks, it’s Alex and I have a confession. I was harangued by a vicious group of angry pissed off Middle Age Mutant Ninja Turtles. They...
View ArticleEpisode 018: Getting Outside Help for Your Business
Last week’s challenge: Create an Escape Plan for Your Bad Day Natalie and I had to come up with a plan to decompress and eliminate stress and press the “reset button” when you’re having a bad day....
View ArticleEpisode 019: Tidy a Room
Last week’s challenge: Create an Escape Plan for Your Bad Day Natalie and I bring you the Do Weekly Podcast from the frigidly air conditioned Old Town Pasadena location of Cross Campus. And we’re back...
View ArticleEpisode 020: Create Your Business’s Succession Plan
Last week’s challenge: Tidy a Room in Your Space Last week we welcomed Natalie’s sister, Bethany, to the podcast and she provided our challenge for the week. And that challenge was to tidy a room in...
View ArticleEpisode 021: Protect Yourself From Fraud
Last week’s challenge: Create a Small Business Succession Plan Welcome to another set of show notes! I hope you enjoy these notes more than I enjoy writing them! In our previous challenge, we took up...
View ArticleEpisode 022: Secure Your Website
Last week’s challenge: Protect Yourself From Online Scams Last week we tasked you with educating yourselves and your small business from online scams. While it may seem easy to pick out scams, since...
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Episode 023: Enroll in a Class
Last week’s challenge: Secure Your Website During our last episode, we discussed our challenge which had to do with ensuring your website is secure. Recently, web browsers began marking sites as...
View ArticleEpisode 024: Ask for Feedback
Last week’s challenge: Enroll in a Class Natalie and I talked about last week’s challenge, which if you recall (and you read the heading above) is all about upping our knowledge. Our challenge to you...
View ArticleEpisode 025: Create a PPC Campaign (Paid Advertising Campaign)
Last week’s challenge: Ask for Feedback from Clients, Contractors, Employees etc. Natalie shares that she watches videos of goats wearing pajamas. We clearly are triggered by very different things in...
View ArticleEpisode 026: Do Some Competitor Analysis
Last week’s challenge: Create an Ad Campaign We’re pissed the heck off! Natalie can’t stand Javascript or the WordPress Rest API. I am pissed off because in creating my ad campaign I got myself locked...
View ArticleEpisode 027: Lets Get Physical
Last week’s challenge: Competitor Analysis. Just really quickly, we’re a fan of Katie’s Cupcakes. It’s where I bought Nat’s challenge failure cakes. Last week we challenged you (and ourselves) to do...
View ArticleEpisode 028: Giving Back
Last week’s challenge: Get Physical. Natalie goes to FreeCon (Freelance Conference) and Alex grapples with the fact no one wants to hear him talk. Last week’s challenge was all about self-care of the...
View ArticleEpisode 029: Create A New Revenue Stream
Last week’s challenge: Volunteer Your Time or Donate to a Good Cause Volunteering. It’s a great public service to donate your time and money to worthy non-profit causes. Nat and I already volunteer our...
View ArticleEpisode 030: Have a Plan
Last week’s challenge: Create a New Revenue Stream During last week’s challenge, we looked at trying to find new ways to squeeze money out of our businesses. I looked at doing a workshop for small...
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Episode 031: Update Your Branding
Last week’s challenge: Have a Plan Natalie and I challenged our listeners to Have a Plan. Creating a plan helps us to not stress out about the things we have to do each and every day. Natalie is a...
View ArticleEpisode 032: Nourish Yourself
Last week’s challenge: Update Your Branding Last week we turned the microscope on ourselves and updated our branding for our businesses. I did this challenge by reaching out to a talented and skilled...
View ArticleEpisode 033: End of Year Preparations
Last week’s challenge: Nourish Yourselves Did you take care of yourself this week? Well, you were supposed to! Nat and I challenged you, our listeners, to take better care of yourself by doing one...
View ArticleEpisode 034: Write a Blog Post
Last week’s challenge: Prepare for the End of Year We’re zooming right along to the end of the year and our weekly challenge was to get ready for it. Natalie got her 2019 planning books in order to...
View ArticleEpisode 035: Gift Giving For Your Clients
We’re very, very late… We know. We’re super late with this episode. Dear reader and listener, it’s my fault! I was traveling through the South and, well, I got waylayed by my own sense of...
View ArticleEpisode 036: Chamber of Commerce
Did you do last week’s challenge? If you did, then gosh golly you’re a swell person and a good egg! Last week, we took up the task of sending gifts to our favorite-ist clients ever! Granted, we were...
View ArticleEpisode 037: Read a Book
Last week we had a challenge and YOU had a challenge. Did everyone do it? We had a very specific challenge last week. It was to join a local Chamber of Commerce. There are a pair of chambers I...
View ArticleEpisode 038: Identify Your Business Purpose
This week’s episode is brought to you by Natalie’s Blue Whale impression. Let’s talk about last week’s challenge! Our challenge from last week was to read a business book. The book I chose to read was...
View ArticleEpisode 039: Help a Reporter Out Why Don’tcha!
Howdee-doo dear readers (and listeners)! Did you have a good week! We certainly did! Let’s get right down to it. Did you revisit your business’s purpose? Natalie and myself hit the pavement and...
View ArticleEpisode 040: Get Your Business Credit Report
Welcome back everyone! Are you ready to jump into things? We are! Last week’s challenge we signed up for HARO (Help a Reporter Out) to get ourselves a little free PR by looking for story queries from...
View ArticleEpisode 041: Hire a Book Keeper
Did you miss us? We sure as f*** missed your smiling faces! So let’s get to it, shall we? Last week’s challenge Your challenge last week was to order your business credit report. Nat and I both...
View ArticleEpisode 042: Make Your Own Challenge
It’s been slog, folks. Time is a precious resource that we don’t have enough of. Tax time has been eating into our time as has keeping up with the books, which leads us to.. Our Last Challenge If you...
View ArticleEpisode 043: Give Away Some of Your Time
Our Last Challenge Our challenge last week was to make a choice. Either to take a Ferris Beuler’s Day Off OR to mediate each day of the week. While the challenge seemed easy, I didn’t get the thing...
View ArticleEpisode 044: Do a S.W.O.T. Analysis
Last Week… Our last challenge was super simple. You had to give your time away. For free. Did you do it? We sure did! That’s the idea behind our podcast after all, folks! Our challenge was to give...
View ArticleEpisode 045: Find a Newsletter to Advertise in
Last Week… If you listened to our last challenge you completed a S.W.O.T. Analysis of your business. If you didn’t complete the challenge you owe me cookies (but not Natalie, just me). A S.W.O.T....
View ArticleEpisode 046: Reach Out to Other Businesses
Welcome back dear listeners! Welcome back to the Do Weekly Podcast!! We talk about challenges and how a Blue Whale intros a podcast courtesy of resident co-host, Natalie Maclees! Also, don’t mind the...
View ArticleEpisode 047: Get Certified
Howdy folks! We’re back again with another episode of the Do Weekly! Today we talk about how everyone dies (not really)! Lots of arguing and lots of other stuff as we thank our sponsor, Pantheon. So...
View ArticleEpisode 048: Register Your Trademark
Welcome back to another installment of the Do Weekly Podcast! We’re learning stuff again this week, y’all! “Learning what,” you ask? Maybe don’t tell people to burn in hell, especially if they’re your...
View ArticleEpisode 049: Reduce Your Stress
Welcome back to another installment of the Do Weekly Podcast! We’re learning stuff again this week, y’all! “Learning what,” you ask? Maybe don’t tell people to burn in hell, especially if they’re your...
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Episode 050: Make a Personal Profile for Your Phone
Welcome back to another installment of the Do Weekly Podcast! We’re learning stuff again this week, y’all! “Learning what,” you ask? Maybe don’t tell people to burn in hell, especially if they’re your...
View ArticleEpisode 051: Create a Holiday Promotion
Last week’s challenge! We had a challenge last week. Did you do it? Do you remember what it was? I do, dear reader and podcast listener! Last week we were supposed to create a separate user profile on...
View ArticleEpisode 052: Put Pronouns in Your Signature
Last week’s challenge! Your last challenge, if you chose to accept it, was to create a holiday-specific special. Did you know there’s a National No Pants Day? What about National Moment of Frustration...
View ArticleEpisode 053: Create an Annual Plan
Last week’s challenge! What’s up, party people? Did you miss us?? WE MISSED YOU ALL SO MUCH!! Are you ready to become a dollar-aire????!! If you do our challenges we’re gonna get you there. Last...
View ArticleEpisode 054: Plan for a Disability
Last week’s challenge! We asked you to peer into your future, last week! That was your challenge!! Did you do it, though? Natalie and I did. Natalie’s strength is to plan for the year ahead. She’s...
View ArticleEpisode 055: Be a Podcast Host
Last week’s challenge! Last week we had a challenge. Did you do it? We did! I made a plan. Let’s say that I get a disability, like my head gets decapitated and I’m having difficulty doing my job it’s...
View ArticleEpisode 056: Creating an Educational Product REDUX!
Last week’s challenge! We did a thing last week, like we do each and every week! We’re gonna chop off your head, take out the brain and stuff in new bits of knowledge. You ready to get to it? Let’s do...
View ArticleEpisode 057: Create an Educational Course: Organize and Outline Your Course...
Last week’s challenge! Last week we decided to revisit a challenge that we didn’t finish. We decided to break it up into bite-sized chunks! The first step for this challenge, and what we did last...
View ArticleEpisode 058: Create an Educational Course: Create a Title and Format for Your...
Last week’s challenge! In our continuing challenge series for creating an educational product, we had a challenge you all were supposed to do! Last week, we were going to create an outline for our...
View ArticleEpisode 059: Create a Landing Page for Your Educational Product
Last week’s challenge! We asked you, last week, to come up with a title and format for your forthcoming educational product. Did you do the challenge? We certainly did! I came up with a title that I...
View ArticleEpisode 060: Create a Production Schedule for Your Educational Product
Last week’s challenge! We had a baby step challenge last week. We pre-wrote our sales/landing pages for our educational products. Pretty cool right? These pages help your audience understand how you...
View ArticleEpisode 061: Analog January
Last Week’s Challenge Your challenge, last week, was to schedule out creating your educational product and commit to a time to getting it all finished. Of course, we expect you to take the time you...
View ArticleEpisode 062: Analog January
Last Week’s Challenge If you’re minding your Ps and Qs then you’ve been working on our Analog January challenge. We’re kicking things off with our fearless co-host, Natalie, sharing an old note she...
View ArticleEpisode 063: Analog January, Part 3
Howdy once again party people! Welcome back to our website and podcast thingy-majig! Last Week’s Challenge We’re deep, deep into our Analog January challenge (deep, deep into February obviously). For...
View ArticleEpisode 064: Analog January, Part 4
Howdy ho, Children of the Corn! Welcome back to another week of the Do Weekly Podcast. We kick off this week’s episode by talking about bugs in your ear. We’re straight-up talking about nasty shit...
View ArticleEpisode 065: Analog January, Part 5
Welcome back, dear listeners to yet another episode of Do Weekly Podcast-ery. Are you ready to level up and become more awesome? We kick off this week with some serious failures. Natalie shares a tale...
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Do Weekly Pod E066: Get Your Headshots
Welcome to year one of the quarantine! Year one!? Let’s hope it’s just one year. Because this is not year fun, 2020 can go home. You’ll notice that when you listen to this, it’s April. 2020. And yet...
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