Summer Board · Jun / Jul
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.
Ten postcards · from 10 minutes · any order you like
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.
On a phone. In the sun. Half distracted. If it survives that, it works.
20 mins · Alex can help
Pick the ones you actually want more of. Leave the rest behind.
20 mins · Do it on a walk
Scope, shape, price. Something you can send in a single message.
45 mins · Austin can help
Forty names now beats forty panicked names in the first week back.
45 mins · Brogan can help
Written on a garden table in July. Published when everyone is back at a desk.
45 mins · Billie can help
The stamps in the passport. Ask for them now, while people remember.
20 mins · From your phone
“Been a while — how's your year going?” still works remarkably well.
15 mins · From your phone
Read their results. Find the pressure. Note the person who owns it.
40 mins · Brogan can help
Draft it in the quiet. Press send the week the inboxes reopen.
30 mins · Agent assisted
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
What you get out of it
A few useful jobs, done from wherever you happen to be, can put you ahead when the market wakes up.
Arrive whenever - nothing here expires.
Ready when you are
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.