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Naomi at Ittybiz was asked a question about what exactly it is that she does. Heh.

This question came to me in an email from somebody I know. I clicked ‘reply’ and was all set to type out an answer when something very disturbing occurred to me. This person reads my blog.

Not just casual reading. Not just you-say-you-read-it-but-I-call-bullshit. The person who wrote this email has commented frequently and we’ve shared emails back and forth on several occasions. I would have thought they would have known.

I took a moment to get all up in arms about how they haven’t been paying attention. Then I got over it. If they don’t know what I do for a living, it’s not exactly their fault, is it?

Now Naomi has a question for her readers, “What is it that you actually do?”

Good question.

For a while I was an unemployed blogger, scratching out a meager income from the sale of do-it-yourself calendar products. But you all knew that, didn’t you?
Naomi says:

This is for people who are just starting their Ittybiz or haven’t started it yet but need to build some anticipation or those who blog in a completely different area than their field of work. This is for people who just got some new readers from a nice link and the new readers don’t know them yet. This is for people who don’t yet have a small biz but want to get to know their readers a little better.

I have gained quite a few new subscribers recently, so I thought I would share some info about me and what I do. About what right I have to talk about the things that I talk about here. But it’s not just about the blog, and the itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny biz that Productivity in Context currently is. It is also about what I do to make a living. I have a job with a small division of a huge corporation, and, well, Naomi supplied some questions, so I’ll answer them:

• What’s your game? What do you do? I recruit, hire and train people to market information about products, and then capture information from customers that are interested in having a sales consultant come to their home and give them an estimate on how much these products will cost them.
• Why do you do it? Do you love it, or do you just have one of those creepy knacks? It’s a creepy knack. I am good with people, I like teaching, and I am a personal development evangelist. I have been in sales and customer service for most of my professional career and this position offers me a bunch of perks that I consider to be very valuable:
  • A flexible schedule,
  • I get to work from home,
  • I get to supervise people in different locations, so I get some travel time,
  • and I get to treat this company’s business interests as if it were my own little ittybiz.
• Who are your customers? What kind of people would need or want what you offer? I have two sets of customers:
  1. Internal customers - my own staff and the retail store associates - These customers get the benefit of my experience and skills in the form of marketing and customer service training. This training is used to service…
  2. External customers - the people off the street - These customers receive the marketing presentations and are “sold” an appointment to have someone come and sell them a product.
• What’s your marketing USP? Why should I buy from you instead of the other losers? Our billion-dollar company is over one hundred years old, has a national reputation for quality and service, and provides products that are backed up by nation-wide resources and a satisfaction guarantee.
• What’s next for you? What’s the big plan? This is always the question, isn’t it? For the short-term, I am working on creating an enthusiastic and skilled marketing team that is making a good living, so that the business will sort of run itself. This will free up some more time for me to get to work on the multimedia empire that is my long-term goal. (More about that later)

There it is folks, in a nutshell. Oh, and I write articles about Productivity practices for you folks. That is a sideline for now, soon it will become more mainline. Stay tuned.

How about you, dear reader, what do you do and more importantly, how can I help you do it? I’ll bet that by working together we can both get a lot more done. Giving you more time for the things that really matter - family… fun… life.

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