Welcome to Episode 52 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest. If you are about on Twitter. Do come and say hello at Romeo crow. We'd love to hear from you. So today it was an interesting day because it was the official first day of the marketing agency audience ninja. The official first day of our first full time team member, and the official first day of our first client. So, all in all. Yeah, very important and milestone type day. I kicked off the day because obviously had all this stuff to organise and all this work in front of me by going to the beach, because you know, that's the sensible thing to do. Kids were very pleased about it. And I think someone was very pleased about it. And it was our I am not the biggest beach fan but you know it was nice to get out and have a swim in the morning and then come over, though, I think we did leave a little bit late. Nonetheless, I was at work by kind of at half 10. And I quickly realised that I needed to organise stuff. I mean, it works really well to have the first client on board today. With the new starter because all of a sudden that gave me a very clear focus of what you know we can get going with, and therefore what to get. Dan teammate. You know what to set him off with, and part of certainly these first few days is going to be seeing how he handles tasks which some of the tasks, I'm going to be giving him a kind of redundant because probably I'm gonna end up doing them myself anyway. But he needs to learn how to do things I need to see how he learns how quickly learns when they were asked questions his attention to detail all of these things and how we work together so it's a bit of a test. It was funny because I did two explainer videos, which totaled about 30 minutes to walk him through how to use a particular tool or web building tool. And in that 30 minutes, I could have actually done the task which I've asked him to do for the client. So, it was like, you know, it felt like one. You know, one step back or whatever you know it felt like it wasn't really being productive but actually, I know that in the long term that's by far the best approach because I need to teach a man to fish, rather than just do it myself. Otherwise, what's the point in having, you know teammates and an agency if you're going to end up doing stuff yourself so from day one, I'm trying to learn to delegate I'm trying to learn to really have that in the mindset because that's the whole point of not just audience ninja but also, you know, everything really that we're doing is about delegating and having people help amplify. What we want to do, so we can focus on the core of our interest and skills and where the nexus of those two things are. So hopefully this will kind of pan out and you know we'll, we'll hit the ground running and we'll get some good momentum and a good working relationship and stuff will get done, but obviously we'll see over the next few days I probably would have done more on it, except in the afternoon I got a call from a mom asking for some tech support. They've got a new internet service provider in a new modem, and the computer she's using which smiled computer wasn't connected to the internet and long, long story short, after four hours we realised that a cable had been unplugged. So it's been four hours trying to do very frustrating tech support to find out that there was a cable unplugged, which I had asked about at the beginning and been told that it was fine but it turns out it was a fight. So, that was both frustrating and comedic at the same time, because you got it. But it did mean I wasn't doing anything more on you know audience ninja for the client. The client is a slob my brother's new business, which is rapidly evolving, with the it was, it's a business that was conceived to help other businesses during the coronavirus, but with a view to how they can be sustainable longer term after the various different challenges to businesses have subsided. And as a cons
