karenfrith.com

Summer Board · Jun / Jul

Get Ready for the Golden Quarter

The market may be quieter. You don't have to be.

September to November is one of the most valuable windows in the business calendar. It is also the hardest time to build anything, because everyone is busy again.

A few useful jobs, done wherever you happen to be, can put you well ahead when the market wakes up.

Pick a postcard↓

Ten postcards · from 10 minutes · any order you like

Route chosenChoose the two problems worth September20 mins · Do it on a walk
PostmarkedWrite your Golden Quarter content45 mins · Billie can help
Air mailWrite the outreach now, send it later30 mins · Agent assisted

posted from a deckchair

The board

I’ve got half an hour. What would be useful to do today?

Pick whatever helps, ignore whatever doesn’t, come back whenever you like. Nothing here expires and nothing needs finishing.

Nothing picked yet - one useful postcard is a good day.

Departures

Read your Multi Profile™ the way a buyer would

On a phone. In the sun. Half distracted. If it survives that, it works.

20 mins · Alex can help

Route chosen

Choose the two problems worth September

Pick the ones you actually want more of. Leave the rest behind.

20 mins · Do it on a walk

Packed

Package one fractional offer properly

Scope, shape, price. Something you can send in a single message.

45 mins · Austin can help

Itinerary

Build your September prospect list

Forty names now beats forty panicked names in the first week back.

45 mins · Brogan can help

Postmarked

Write your Golden Quarter content

Written on a garden table in July. Published when everyone is back at a desk.

45 mins · Billie can help

Stamped

Collect the proof you already earned

The stamps in the passport. Ask for them now, while people remember.

20 mins · From your phone

Signal found

Message three dormant contacts

“Been a while — how's your year going?” still works remarkably well.

15 mins · From your phone

Recon

Research the organisations you want

Read their results. Find the pressure. Note the person who owns it.

40 mins · Brogan can help

Air mail

Write the outreach now, send it later

Draft it in the quiet. Press send the week the inboxes reopen.

30 mins · Agent assisted

Serviced

Get your systems ready for new work

Contract, onboarding, invoice. Boring. Absolutely essential.

30 mins · Agent assisted

Not sure which one to pick?

Choose the postcard for the thing you’ve been quietly avoiding. That’s usually the one worth the half hour.

or just do a ten minute one

Who can help

The board tells you what might be useful. The Agents help you do it.

What you get out of it

Come September, you're not getting ready. You're ready.

A few useful jobs, done from wherever you happen to be, can put you ahead when the market wakes up.

Ready when you are

No order. No pressure. No desk required.

Pick the things that will make the next season easier.

Your Fractional First® Agents can help you work through them from the garden, the sofa, the beach, between client calls or wherever you happen to have an hour.

The goal isn’t to complete the board.

The goal is to be better prepared for the opportunity that’s coming next.