No bad golf days 🌧️⛳️

Bluesky is great, but not having a drafts section seems like a miss.

Building 0 to 1,000 followers here and have to admit there’s a learning curve!

Getting to know ins and outs of new platform, especially how to find and engage with the right conversations.

Kind of feels like being dropped in the woods with no food.

Learn to grow and survive.

Making progress.

How many platforms is ideal for building a personal brand?

I think right mix of focus, meeting buyers where they live, and pushing boundaries into new territory are all keys to growth.

Why I’m focusing on:

• Bluesky
• LinkedIn
• X

Video is next, probably YouTube, but building foundation first.

Buyers today want trust.

Sellers want to earn it.

We focus too much on features and functions.

Perfect demos won’t make a sale.

Responsiveness, attention to detail, and humanizing the process will.

Even in the world of AI, people still buy from people.

Welcome back to everyone checking email, teams, and slack this morning. Long weekend was great, until right about now.

I was using Bluesky all wrong.

Custom feeds are the way.

Nothing better than a Monday holiday to reset the mind.

Kicking off summer, pool time, barbecues, maybe even some golf with the kids.

Days like today remind me the work is worth it, and help me remember to enjoy the journey.

It’s easy to focus on growth constantly, but need to unplug some too!

One of the best parts of a long weekend is extra time to organize digital and physical spaces.

Cleaning, updating, deleting, and running at the elusive ‘inbox zero’.

Need these breaks to slow down.

After upgrading for a week, I’d pay $14 per month for Gemini Advanced and NotebookLM Plus models alone.

Adding Gmail and Google apps on top is almost just a bonus.

Moved my side biz from Microsoft to Google for this reason.

Excited to see how simplicity and AI access boosts productivity.

Haven’t started from scratch on a new social since NFTs were considered an investment.

Curious to see how the feed changes, what tailors to my interests, and so on.

Discover tab here is pretty rough right now since I’m just starting to post and engage with topics.

Expect it continues to improve.

Celebrated my wife’s birthday yesterday and part of her gift was a set of nightstands she’s been wanting for our master update.

Now realizing the real gift is an afternoon of assembly I get to enjoy today.

The upside is getting to watch golf guilt free.

Let’s see how this goes.

Really enjoying Bluesky these past couple days!

Spending time over the long weekend to get more acclimated, understand approaches and differentiators vs more familiar platforms to me (LinkedIn and X).

There’s a big (and growing) tech sales community across socials, who should I be following here?

Something exciting about the challenge of building audience on a new platform from ground up.

It’s real and new. It takes patience. It’s strategic. It’s fun!

Follow along, introduce yourself, and let’s grow together! 🦋

In 2011 a mentor shared advice I'll never forget:

"Find movers and shakers. Add value. Follow their lead."

It’s helped me excel in sales, close bigger deals, and win faster.

Now I’m helping other athletes transition to sales after sports.

Movers today are building on Bluesky.

Let’s connect. 👋🦋