What Mike Michelini is up to Oct 11 – 17, 2020 Theme: the regular: online team / online systems development, GFAVIP community, website/ecommerce network building Personal: Pulling kids out of kindergarten Mother in law’s birthday The quick bullet points: * Welcoming more GFAVIP members, Angelica our community manager really getting great at supporting this. As well as Cheryl on client …
Working During Golden Week
What Mike Michelini is up to – Oct 4 – 10, 2020 In the middle of Golden Week here in China. Thursday and Friday last week things were shut down. Hong Kong opens up for business Monday this week, but Mainland China still closed til Thursday. I work online and mainly with the Western world so no changes for me …
Re-Building to Fully Online community
What is Mike Up To Now – Sept 27, 2020 If I can be honest, got close to burn out again last week. Just feel like “almost there” but then a pile of new projects and tasks and emergencies come. Have been meditating twice daily now (been doing mornings since 2014, but last month added mid-day) which helps. Still, I …
CRMs, Online Events, Online Teams
What Mike is Up To now – Sept 20 – 26, 2020 Quick bullet points: * Kids seem to be adjusting to full time school ok. Was a little rough making new friends, etc but going ok. * Studying deeply online event workflows and systems. Testing out one and been getting great feedback, plan to roll it out in the …
Need To Learn To Let Go, Preparing to Sell
What is Mike Up to Now? Sept 13 – 19, 2020 Burning out a little bit towards the end of last week – just a ton of projects from content to migrations, to IT integrations for clients and our own – just feels like everyone is getting used to the “new normal” of 100% online and pushing the limits. Luckily …
Diving Deeper into Technical Marketing Automation & Integration
What Mike is Up to Now – Sept 6 – 12, 2020 Kids going to full time Kindergarten, giving me a lot more time to work in the afternoons now. Realizing how much time it was taking, miss it already – but glad they have the social part of school. Stripped out more blog posts from this blog – as …
Building Internal Tools First
What is Mike Up To Now – Aug 30 – Sept 5, 2020 Summer is OVER and it is getting chilly here in Shenyang, China. Did “leave the 3 block radius” yesterday and went to a zoo with the kids. Released a turtle into the wild which felt great. So what am I upto now? Just basically grinding online. No …
Building a Business Like a Bamboo Forest
Quick bullets: * more systems, company handbook, software migrations * re-starting the personal branding content * Expat Philippines site re-structure * hiring and optimizing the writer system * hiring and onboarding a sales team Longer form: This lockdown has forced me to really focus on the systems and the team. I feel this is the most important part for a …
Doubling Down on Content & Our Team
What Mike is Up To Now – Aug 16 – 22, 2020 Yup, still here in Shenyang, China. Have barely left the 2 block radius of this apartment complex in a couple weeks. Working online – so fortunate almost all of our work is online (except those events). Making a ton of new tools and systems for the internal team …
Improving Internal Systems
What Mike is Up to Now – Aug 9, 2020 for the here and “now” * Yes, still here in Shenyang, China. No travel plans, but do any of have those these days? * Online content creation – trying to scale it up even more across more websites with more of our team. * Delegating more of the SEO tasks …
Clarity in Community and Content
You may notice if you visit MikesBlog – a lot has been stripped out. We are spinning off various sections of the site to standalone sites. XML blogger Templates – for those who are into blogger templates, we made a fully dedicated site for those at XMLbloggertemplates.com and would love your feedback on that. If you have your own template, …
Sticking It Out in China (for now)
What Is Mike Up To Now – July 26 – Aug 1, 2020 Can you believe we are almost into August. Well, it does feel like summer here in Shenyang – much hotter than I expected. And yes, I am still here in China. Even with the Chinese embassy in Houston closing and the American embassy in Chengdu, I’m still …
The Quiet Grind
What Mike is Up To Now * Still here in Shenyang, a few friends/ business associates have tempted me to travel down to South China (Shenzhen, etc) but really just avoiding travel right now. Was so hard to get back to my family do not want any more unnecessary risks. * Being a website geek – more and more content, …
Further Teambuilding July 12 – 18, 2020
What Mike is Up To Now – July 12 to 18 2020 Just grinding away here on my laptop in North China. * Website building and optimization * Global From Asia content (as always) * Working hard at getting the team to work as a TEAM. Putting more SOP in place for website making and optimizing. Week Plan July 12 …
Mid 2020: Focused on Content and Affiliate Sites
What Mike is Up To Now – July 5 to 12 2020 Still here in Shenyang. Feels strange for someone like me to have not gotten on a plane for 3+ months. But feel that may be skipping the planes for even longer maybe the rest of the year. Quick bullet points: * Content site building – doubling down on …