Transcript
We were doing what everybody else did. We’d hire somebody to do a website for us. We’d hire somebody else to do some advertising. We hired a printer that did this, and we were just going between our jobs and our lives and our clients and trying to figure it out. We just saw an opportunity. And early on, Joe, it was a little bumpy because we didn’t understand the process and the service. And at times it was like, “Oh, we’re not sure if the juice was worth the squeeze. Are we getting the ROI?” The whole nine yards. And I talked to a buddy of mine who I recommended for your services, and they went for a while, and they stopped. And then he’s around us a lot, so he hears us on our calls with Michelle. And this is a true story. And then I’ll let you talk to this guy if you want. He goes, “We didn’t give it enough time.” You’d almost, if I were in your position, I would approach the best clients in your bucket, not all of them, the ones that fit your space, and let them understand it takes a long time. I mean, 12 months isn’t a long time really to get a campaign up and running and have the cadence of–I believe there’s seasons for everything. My executive team, our clients’ listening ability, I still think we’re somewhat agrarian. I swear, the summer months, we got a lot of vacations. Everyone’s covering everybody. And we step on it, and I tell Michelle this, ramp down our burn and we’ll spend the same. If it’s a dollar, I want to lean in the end of August and crush through September and October. Said November, December, pedal back, and then as soon as New Year’s is over, go hard through the whole spring, and then just get that peak and valley cadence. Because going 10 cents a month, eight cents a month, consistently I’m going, I’d rather have more of a bang when people are listening, not when they’re tied up with their other parts of their lives. If that makes any sense.