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June 22nd Accountability Check In
Post your 3 weekly goals in the smart format… These should your 3 high priority tasks... Don’t forget to report on last week's goal results… If you didn’t meet your goals, reflect a bit about why you missed the mark. Share your reflection if you’d like to do so.
June 22nd Accountability Check In
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@Dorn Just Dorn Hope this week's goal is achieved ASAP.
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This Week: 1. Four football games to audit this week. 2. Working on a simplified "smart site" offering to get service businesses setup to offer additional services. 3. Start work on a GBP/site optimization Last Week: 1. Prep for auditing 4 football games this weekend. Done 2. Spread a soil and sand mix on the lawn for levelling. Done 3. Create AI prompts to generate some of the weekly stats reports for efficiency and compare to manual reports. Done the ones I was thinking of and finding more to automate.
Hot Take: AI is making agency owners dumber
There, I said it. Before you come at me, I'm not anti-AI. I use it every day. But there's a difference between using AI as a lever and using it as a crutch, and I'm watching a lot of smart people quietly slide from one to the other without even noticing. Here's what I'm seeing in the wild: agency owners who can't write a client email without running it through ChatGPT first. Media buyers who can't diagnose a failing campaign without asking an AI to interpret the data for them. Strategists who've stopped having original ideas and instead prompt their way to a deliverable that sounds smart but has no actual thinking behind it. The problem isn't the output. The output looks fine. The problem is what's happening to the muscle underneath. Critical thinking is a skill. Strategic reasoning is a skill. Writing with a distinct voice is a skill. And like any skill, if you stop using it, it atrophies. We are collectively offloading cognitive work at a pace that should genuinely concern us, and we're calling it efficiency. Think about GPS. The research on this is pretty clear, people who rely on GPS heavily show measurable decline in spatial navigation ability. Their hippocampus literally changes. Now ask yourself honestly: what's happening to your thinking when you let AI do the heavy lifting on strategy, analysis, and communication every single day? I'm not saying don't use it. I'm saying be intentional about where you use it. Use AI to execute faster on things you already know how to do. Don't use it to skip the part where you actually have to think. Because here's the business reality: the agency owners who are going to win over the next five years aren't the ones who are the best at prompting. They're the ones who bring genuine strategic judgment that AI can't replicate, and that judgment only comes from years of hard thinking that you can't outsource. If you're using AI to avoid the hard mental work, you're not building leverage. You're borrowing against your own future capability. And at some point the debt comes due, usually when a sharp client asks you a question that requires real thinking and you realize you've been on autopilot for two years.
Hot Take: AI is making agency owners dumber
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I don't think it's much different than before AI. Everyone bought software before that would "do everything" for them. Software was so popular because people didn't want to think and learn. No different now. Building a website? AI doesn't know the latest and greatest strategies and will apply the older most common strategies that may now hurt your ranking. You may also figure out something that is not generally known and want your AI to follow that strategy. If you know enough to tell it to make the changes, then you'll be ok. AI is a great research partner but it still takes experience and knowledge to guide it correctly.
Stop Saying You're Busy. Start Blocking Your Calendar.
Most agency owners are "busy" all day and wonder why nothing actually gets done. Here's the truth: if it's not on your calendar, it doesn't exist. What's a Focus Block? A focus block is a chunk of time you protect for one specific type of work. No meetings. No Slack. No "quick questions." Just you and the work that actually moves the needle. Think of it like appointments with yourself that you can't cancel. The 3 Block Types You Need 1. Focus Block (2 hours)This is where you build things. Write content, create SOPs, build offers, work on your business. Schedule these in the morning when your brain is fresh. 2. Admin/Reactive Blocks (1 hr2x per day)Email, DMs, invoices, quick client stuff. You're not ignoring the world. You're containing it. Do not make these first thing on the day nor immediately after lunch i generally do like 10 am and 4 pm 3. Growth Blocks (60-90 min)Prospecting, outreach, content creation for your audience. If you skip this one, your pipeline dries up fast. How to Set It Up (Takes 20 Minutes) - Open your calendar right now - Block Monday-Friday mornings for Deep Work (at least 2 hours) - Add two Admin windows (mid-morning and end of day) - Add one Growth block, 3-4x per week - Color-code them so it's visual at a glance - Treat them like client calls. Non-negotiable. The Part Everyone Skips Blocking your calendar doesn't work if you don't guard it. Your first reflex when something comes up will be to move the block. Don't. That's how the whole system falls apart in week one. The inbox can wait 3 hours. I promise. Real Talk I used to run my day based on whatever felt most urgent. I stayed busy, got behind, and felt like I was always catching up. Once I started protecting my mornings for real work, everything changed. I got more done before noon than most people do all day. Your calendar is either a tool or a trap. You decide. Drop a comment below: What's one thing you'd put in a deep work block this week? Also I dare you to take a screencap of your calendar and share it
Stop Saying You're Busy. Start Blocking Your Calendar.
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This reminds me of the webinar that Laura did about blocking your calendar and that I just couldn't work out the basics. Your notes make this process very easy to work on. Will work on it more in my focus block tomorrow morning.
I need feedback
I'm working on a directory system and I need ideas for what you think should be on the front page. I would like people to go review it and tell me what i'm missing and what is broken. Think modular design that you toggle on and off. I also need ideas for the listings themselves and for functionality as it relates to content, formatting text, images etc. Anything you can think of nothing is too outside of the box (there never was a box except the ones we create). https://fishers.indianathrive.net/ I have 4 different basic layouts created. Modules I have are: 1. Hero Section The main banner at the top of the page. 2. Search Section The search bar and category filters. 3. Business Directory The main list of businesses. 4. Featured Events Carousel of upcoming featured events. 5. Owner Call-to-Action 6. Partner Call-to-Action 7. Newsletter Call-to-Action i'm adding: 1. featured business slider 2. some form of posting i.e. blog 3. deals and offers I'm also trying to make all content editable at least text. I also need to improve individual listing features and layout. I'm splitting the add your business form from the pricing page because I want businesses to add themselves without a pitch of any kind. When I get to a certain point I will need beta testers. Not quite there yet but soon if you want to beta let me know.
I need feedback
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Looking good Dorn. 1. In the list of businesses (full or filtered), it would be nice to see the star rating of each as an aid for selection since you're grabbing it for the full listing. (Could also help for selling rep services) 2. I'm not sure about having a link to the website on the listing cards. I think it would do you more to have it go to the full listing and they can click from there. should help with getting some activity on the site instead of search and gone. 3. I personally would want more definition for each of the cards on a page. They tend to get lost together being the same color as the page. Perhaps consider using the larger image for the business, like you have for Tie Dye full listing. Very useful if you are trying to find a business that you know but have forgotten the name. 4. The database should hold the phone number in the appropriate format so that you don't get strings of 10 digits. 3 - 3 - 4 since that is the format for the city. Easier for the person reading and immediately recognizing it. This could be a setting for the site for outside of North America. 5. On the full listing, I see phone, address, website and email. I would add to this optional other contact methods that will display if filled in. 6. How about social pages list. Fill it in and it displays on the full listing with the appropriate platform symbol. 7. One of the things I look for when searching for businesses is how close they are to me. I realize that can be a hard thing to incorporate using geo location. Currently the search results have a little G map at the bottom. This is ok for the 5 listings on the site but would prefer to see a larger version for when it gets crowded with listings. Also you might want to make the map zoom an adjustable entry. 8. Because I'm more apt to click buttons and ignore menu systems, I kept clicking the business category buttons below the search bar. Took me a minute to understand that those are setup as filters for the search in the search bar but because they are so visible, I went right to them and thought they weren't working. LOL 9. When I click the Explore Businesses button on the hero section, I am not sure that many visitors would want to know if the listings were free, premium or featured. I think they would most likely want to narrow by business category after hitting that button. 10. I know you have the buttons for website and view details on each card. Some people will naturally click on the business name, logo or image. I would suggest making them clickable as well. If you decide to remove the website button from suggestion 2, you could make the whole card clickable. 11. I would like to see the header being static instead of the back to top button. Makes the next selection immediately available instead of having to make that click. 12. I think having something similar to a Google post type area on the full listing would be cool where the business could have offers, their own events, updates, etc. Then have a box where you could click to get updates on your favorite stores. Of course, if they are not signed in, it would ask them to and also ask to register if they already haven't. Should help to collect more community connections. 13. Ticketmaster sends out periodic lists of upcoming events. If a retail customer registers with you, you could send those out every so often if there is something new. Maybe include lists of garage sales as that might generate new events more often.
June 15th Accountability Check In
Post your 3 weekly goals in the smart format… These should your 3 high priority tasks... Don’t forget to report on last week's goal results… If you didn’t meet your goals, reflect a bit about why you missed the mark. Share your reflection if you’d like to do so.
June 15th Accountability Check In
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This Week: 1. Prep for auditing 4 football games this weekend. 2. Spread a soil and sand mix on the lawn for levelling 3. Create AI prompts to generate some of the weekly stats reports for efficiency and compare to manual reports. Last Week: Dealing with personal issues and building a 30' x 4' garden, fill with 3 yards of soil and get the plants in the ground before the heat wave hit.
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