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Winter Board · Nov

Get Ready for Q1

Use the quieter end of the year to make January easier.

While everyone else is winding down, there are small things you can do now that will make starting again in January considerably easier.

None of it takes a desk, a plan or a free week. Most of it takes half an hour and a cup of something warm.

Pick a postcard↓

Ten postcards · from 10 minutes · any order you like

Hand deliveredSend three Christmas messages15 mins · From your phone
Kind wordsCapture a testimonial10 mins · From your phone
Back on the radarReopen an old conversation10 mins · From your phone

mince pie optional

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.

Boxed up

Turn this year's work into proof

Before everyone disappears for Christmas, capture the result while it's still fresh.

20 mins · Agent assisted

Hand delivered

Send three Christmas messages

Not prospecting. Reconnect with three people you'd genuinely like to speak to again in January.

15 mins · From your phone

North star

What do you want to be bought for next year?

Look at this year's work. Which problems would you like people to come to you to solve next year?

30 mins · Alex can help

On the list

Build your January watchlist

The organisations most likely to feel the problems you solve as budgets and priorities reset.

45 mins · Brogan can help

Kind words

Capture a testimonial

Ask while the work and the result are still fresh.

10 mins · From your phone

Re-wrapped

Refresh your Multi Profile™

Make sure what buyers see reflects what you want to be bought for next.

30 mins · Alex can help

Gift wrapped

Package one thing you already know

Turn something you've solved repeatedly into something a buyer can understand and buy.

30 mins · Agent assisted

Saved for January

Prepare one January conversation starter

Not a content calendar. One useful idea that gives you a reason to start conversations when everyone returns.

20 mins · Agent assisted

Back on the radar

Reopen an old conversation

Who did you nearly work with this year? Wish them well for Christmas and put the relationship back on the radar.

10 mins · From your phone

Politely declined

Decide what you're NOT doing next year

Sometimes getting ready means removing something rather than adding something.

15 mins · Coffee job

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

January doesn't have to start with “what should I do?”

You arrive with your positioning, your proof, a watchlist and a reason to start talking to people already in place.

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.