Musings of a Marketing Maven

If you like diver­sity dur­ing your day, oper­at­ing a small busi­ness out of your home can have its charms. Today has been one of those days that mixes busi­ness and plea­sure in delight­ful ways.

While await­ing replies to out­stand­ing client pro­pos­als, I’ve been able to jug­gle a vari­ety of tasks:

• reach­ing out to for­mer col­leagues (and test­ing a new USB head­set with Skype while doing so)
• answer­ing ques­tions of the loan pro­cess­ing agent who is help­ing with our refi
• updat­ing LinkedIn con­tacts and some project wikis
• suc­cess­fully installing Boot­camp to run Win­dows 7 on my Mac­Book Pro
• play­ing fetch with 2 kitties
• prepar­ing Anadama bread so the smell of fresh-baked bread will greet my hus­band when he arrives home from work
• catch­ing up on blog­ging, reply­ing to com­ments, etc.

I also spent 45 min­utes on the phone with a Mac spe­cial­ist who’s a net­work geek. He was able to recon­fig­ure my Apple Server to fix some DNS issues, and thanks to remote access, was able to do from his home office. Hooray!

So while I await follow-up on biz dev, I sit here at my office win­dow enjoy­ing the birds in the maple tree, the promise of spring flow­ers, and the purring kitty by my mouse pad. (There must be a rea­son they call it a “mouse.”)

It’s a lovely work-life balance.

Print PDF