Welcome to 2025
And we are back! Welcome to 2025, my dear reader.
I’ve already started the year poorly by sending this email at the 11th hour. But that’s what happens when you get distracted by trying to catch up on tons of emails.… Read the rest
Seasonal break with gratitude
I was planning to continue writing these emails until Friday before taking a much needed break. It turns out, I need the break more than I thought.
So today will be the last email until Jan 6th, 2025.
During the break, I plan to spend most of the time with family and close friends.… Read the rest
The journey to mastery
Mastery isn’t a straight and consistent path. It won’t even be the same path taken by anyone else.
This is because time keeps moving forward. With time progressing, random circumstances are constantly introduced. They say you never step into the same river twice, and that’s because of the flow of time.… Read the rest
Winner of the 2024 giveaway
It looks like this year’s reward was not very motivating for you. Since the giveaway was announced, only 3 people referred others 🙁
Don’t worry, I won’t take this personally. I bet you were just super busy and forgot about it.… Read the rest
Two year anniversary giveaway
In celebration of the two year anniversary of The “Good Enough” Consultant, I’m having a giveaway!
One lucky winner will receive a one-hour free consultation with me. You can use that time to discuss topics such as
- Challenges in growing your Salesforce career
- Technical issues with a current project
- How to effectively shift from a full-time employee to freelance consultant
- As an freelancer, how to drive up your income by switching from hourly billing to fixed prices
- Anything else on your mind
Rules of the giveaway:
- Share the link below with fellow consultants
- If at least one person subscribes, you’re enrolled in the giveaway
- The more people you have subscribe, the greater your chances of winning
- One winner will be chosen at random by 10pm EST on Thursday, November 28, 2024
By the way, I kindly ask you only refer people who would actually enjoy the content, not just random colleagues that may unsubcribe a few days later.… Read the rest
Upcoming two year anniversary
Nov 28, 2024 marks the two year anniversary of this email list.
Some interesting statistic about it:
- 481 emails were sent, including this one
- There are currently 689 subscribers
- The average open rate over the last 90 days is 58%, although this number is not accurate because of recent privacy policies.
How I work: Delegation
As a single-person business that offers both products and services, I simply don’t have time to do it all myself.
Here are the people I depend on:
App development
There’s a small team that helps me with the SF application. This includes two SF devs, an AWS dev, a QA tester, and a part-time marketing person.… Read the rest
How I work: The email list process
A couple of readers were interested in knowing my process for writing these emails, so here you go.
Ideas are collected throughout the day and recorded in my note taking app. Sometimes the idea is based on a situation with a client, a reader request, or something I find interesting.… Read the rest
How I work: Finding podcast guests
There are three main ways to host a podcast:
- You are the only host and do all of the talking
- You have a co-host, or two, and have conversations amongst yourselves
- You are the host, and you interview others
Some people mix and match, but one of these ways is usually the most applied.… Read the rest
How I work: Invoices and expenses
I’ve been an independent consultant for more than 20 years. For the first 19 years, I built a custom web application to manage my accounting.
My primary motivation was cost. I didn’t want to pay an endless subscription fee, when I knew I could build one myself.… Read the rest
How I work: Do good
When I graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, there was a ceremony. It’s called the iron ring ceremony. It’s only performed in Canada and all students who graduate with an engineering degree attend.
The entire ceremony is secret, but there are a few things I can share with you.… Read the rest
How I work: LinkedIn sales funnel
I’m slowly building this email list. The idea is to eventually reduce working on Salesforce projects and focus on coaching. It’s a long term goal, but one I started thinking about two years ago.
To gain readers, do the following:
- I occasionally share these emails with LinkedIn
- If it does well, I receive a lot of connection requests
- I accept all requests, and message each person with the following:
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Thanks for connecting!… Read the rest
How I work: Finding Salesforce projects
One of the largest challenges when working for yourself is being a complete business. You cannot just be a Salesforce architect. You also need to be a marketing team, a sales team, a finance department, and a support team all in one.… Read the rest
How I work: Salesforce projects
Being an independent Salesforce architect, there’s only so much I can do in a week. This means I spend most of my time advising and consulting clients, rather than doing implementation work. This means clients are usually paying for access to my expertise.… Read the rest
How I work: Managing schedules and multi-tasking
There are three apps that I rely on for everyday work.
The 1st is Workona, which is a Chrome extension. It allows me to create a space for each client. So if I’m working on Client A’s project, and need to quickly switch to Client’s B’s project, it takes me two clicks.… Read the rest
How I work: Email labelling details
Another reader asked how they can efficiently use labels or turn emails into action items. These are great questions.
I use a label for each client, and a general label called “Clients” for prospects and other client-related emails. I set up Gmail filters to automatically add the label based on the sender or subject.… Read the rest
How I work: Calendar automation details
A number of readers were very interested in more details about the personal and business calendar sync.
Using a Make scenario, only personal events scheduled between M-F from 9am to 5pm are synced to my business calendar. So it’s a one-way sync.… Read the rest
Introduction to the “How I work” series
As you may know, I do more than one thing. At the moment, I do the following
- Advise and consult on Salesforce projects for nonprofits
- Design, implement, and support a Salesforce app for nonprofits
- Coach Salesforce consultants
- Send emails 5 days a week
- Host a weekly podcast
Several readers have asked how a single person can multitask so efficiently.… Read the rest
Winners of the one year anniversary giveaway
The three winners of the one-year anniversary giveaway have been selected!
If you are interested in the selection process (and to be fully transparent), I made this short video: https://youtu.be/QP4EDXt8TMw
If you’re not interested in watching the video, there’s the text version:
- There were 15 new subscribers, which were referred by 9 people
- For the 15 subscribers, the 4th letter of their email address was identified and ordered by that letter
- This was just an easy way to randomize the order
- A sequential number was assigned to this ordered list, from 1 to 15
- ChatGPT was asked to select 3 random numbers between 1 and 15, without repeating itself
- Winners were chosen by ChatGPT
Congratulations to:
- erak
- dgel
- ales
I will contact each of you directly for your mailing address.… Read the rest
Today is the one year anniversary
Well, it’s officially been a year since I started this email list, and I wanted to share some thoughts on this anniversary.
Firstly, I started this email list because I wanted to give back. Among many perks, the flexibility of the Salesforce ecosystem allowed me to build my dream lifestyle.… Read the rest
Last chance for the giveaway
As a reminder, tomorrow is the last day before the giveaway!
You have until midnight tomorrow to refer fellow colleagues to the email list and be entered in the chance to win Jodi Hbrek’s book, Rock your Role as a Salesforce Admin.… Read the rest
One year anniversary giveaway
In celebration of the one year anniversary of The “Good Enough” Consultant, I’m having a giveaway!
Rules:
- Share the link below with fellow Salesforce consultants
- You can share the link with your colleagues or on social media
- If at least one person subscribes, you’re automatically enrolled in the giveaway
- The more people you convince to subscribe, the greater your chances of winning
- Three winners will be chosen at random by 10pm EST on Tuesday, November 28, 2023
- Each of the winners will receive a paperback edition of Jodi Hrbek’s book Rock your Role as a Salesforce Admin
- Anyone in the world can participate, and the books will be shipped worldwide
Note: I kindly ask that you only refer people who would actually enjoy the content, not just random colleagues that will unsubcribe a few days later.… Read the rest