I spend a lot of time, probably too much time, thinking about the things I don’t have yet or are missing from the picture. I’d like to take a little time to list some things I did accomplish in the last 12 months.
Personal/family
- Took my wife on a vacation to Arizona and Vegas
- Took my oldest son (age 4) on a father-son visit to a dinosaur museum and car museum
- Got up to being able to do 50 push-ups at a time
- Went from not being able to do a pull-up to being able to do 7
Career
- Raised Snip’s revenue to about $430/mo
- Got Snip back to the first page of search results for “hair salon software”
- Got 3 out-of-state Snip customers (the first 3 out-of-staters)
- Got Snip’s online sales funnel to work for the first time ever
- Improved engagement on the Snip site by adding Olark chat and “view demo” opt-in (thanks to a mentor’s suggestion)
- Reached the milestone of 10 Snip customers
- Straightened out Ben Franklin Labs’ positioning and USP, which as of January was wildly off course and ineffective
- Earned 5 figures in a month for the first time ever (the source was consulting)
- Raised my consulting rate from $X to $2X
- Hired a design subcontractor for the first time ever
- Hired programming subcontractors for the first time ever
- Hired personal/admin assistants for the first time ever
- Launched the somewhat popular educational site AngularOnRails.com
- Landed a gig working with one of the most well-known people in the Rails world
- Moved into my own office, not a co-working space
I have a long list of goals for 2015 but I want to focus here on accomplishments. For the 3 or 4 people who read my blog, please feel free to share any accomplishments of yours in the comments.
Way to go Jason. I am just catching up on my reading. I think Snip’s website is looking good.
2014 was more a step back and clean up year, but 2015 is looking good!
Pretty cool achievements. The break-down, and appreciation for little things struck me.
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