Welcome to Episode 83 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest. It is Thursday 27th of August and I am coming to you through your year holes. So today, I spent pretty much the morning on music, really music theory and then a bit of music practice vocal practice, which I haven't done in a long time. And just kind of continuing to move forward and reacquaint myself with being a musician which was thoroughly enjoyable. But the net result was I didn't really do too much outside of that, you know, I wasn't so quote unquote productive. And I just found it a little bit difficult to get into work in the afternoon to get into other things. And I did record a couple of videos, which are for the lab. And also, actually, to be fair, I spent nigh on two hours recording a video for musicians to explain to them a process of stretching J that they can use to, you know, to, to build a fan base online and to have it sustainable and get customers from it, etc. So basically, I laid out pretty much my entire plan, or my entire Yeah, strategy and way of working. And the idea is that, as you might have heard me mentioned, I have a business tool UK open mic, which is our main source of income until the pubs will close in the UK. And it was the biggest open mic provider in the country, though we only operated in London. So that's probably not saying too much, but still. And as a consequence, we have thousands of open mic performers who'd come through our, you know, various different nights over the years, I've met a lot of them. And so I'd message them say the open mic still on yet despite the pulse being back open, but I've started an agency and it's focused on marketing and principally, we will To our clients to be musicians, we want to help musicians and move forward. And I didn't say anything near as much as that but nonetheless, a lot of people asked what was this marketing agency? Can you tell me more? So I made this video for all the open makers or performers, musicians who are interested who wanted to know more about the company because they were saying, you know, how can you help us what can you do for us blah blah and I thought well, I can tell you that we do this service or that service you know, we can build websites we can run your ad campaigns etc. But the real truth is I want you to understand what it is that we're going to do overall because you might choose to do it yourself which is totally cool. But I want to empower you with the knowledge and when the idea or at least the understanding and then if you want to work with this great at least we're all starting from the same place you know, on the same page. So that was best part two hours recording that those videos and so to be fair, you know I was doing stuff in a sad to other video For the lab for the next two weeks of posts the story behind the song so you know just get stuff done and then same on his laptop arrived today we bought a laptop so that you know obviously she can work at the same time we don't have to worry about sharing the computer etc. And it's a beautiful little thing but Acer it's called the Acer Swift. I believe we've got a really good deal on it from Amazon warehouse, which is like their secondhand you know, secondhand kind of Portal, instead of buying a new laptop for like 300 quid or something because you only need something to do kind of basic browsing, general office type stuff. We thought I thought I'd look for a second hand but in sort of optimum condition. laptop that was made me sort of five 600 pound new, but is it for 300 quid, so if you don't know about Amazon warehouse, I heartily suggest you check it out because it's even things like pre you know, unboxed items, items that people have received, decided they want sent back. So oftentimes they are literally brand new. But they tell you the condition of them. So this was in perfect condition. And honestly, it came with shrink wrapped and everything and I thought it was brand new, I wouldn't have kno
