Sean is exhausted because he has so many inbound emails from prospective clients he doesn't have time to answer them all. Meanwhile, Andrew is trying to buckle down and get Stripe built into ChartJuice so he can start advertising and collecting payments. Sean and Andrew talk about how the consulting project is going, and Sean has to rain Andrew in as he contemplates repositioning ChartJuice again. As a bonus, find out how fast Andrew can run a mile and why he needs to run faster.
Links:
- Andrew’s Twitter: @AndrewAskins
- Andrew's website: https://www.andrewaskins.com/
- ChartJuice: https://www.chartjuice.com/
- Sean’s Twitter: @seanqsun
- Miscreants: http://miscreants.com/
- StackWise: Coming soon...
- FigTree: Coming soon...
For more information about the podcast, check out https://www.smalleffortspod.com/.
Transcript:
00:00.90
Andrew
What's up, friend?
00:00.81
Sean
Not so much. How are you?
00:04.17
Andrew
Good, we haven't talked other than Slack in like two weeks.
00:07.87
Sean
Yeah. You've been traveling.
00:11.38
Andrew
Yeah.
00:11.84
Sean
How have your trips been multiple?
00:14.99
Andrew
um Montana is fucking beautiful. Oh my god. um Glacier in particular is stunning. Was there for a friend's wedding. um And then I think right before that, my sister was in town visiting. Have we talked since then? I can't remember.
00:34.15
Sean
we talked i think i think the last time we talked was the day you i think you went to pick up your sister from the airport or yeah something like that yeah yes
00:42.08
Andrew
Okay. Cool. Cool. Yeah. So, okay. Great. Time makes no sense, but that was the week before. And then there was a week. I think. I don't know. Anyway, my sister came to visit. That was a blast. It was great to see her. Got to meet her new boyfriend. So that was fun. And then went to Glacier for one of my best friend's weddings. His name is Alex. His now wife's name is also Alex. So that was very entertaining.
01:15.17
Andrew
um We love her. We've known her for a long time. It's kind of the novelty is kind of worn off, to be honest, but but she is taking his name.
01:21.51
Sean
Got it.
01:24.95
Andrew
So they are going to be Alex Drake and Alex Drake, which is like absurd. Um, but we did a lot of hiking, did some white water rafting. Um, I saw, uh, mountain goats and big horn sheep. Um, and yeah, Glacier is just absolutely stunning. I, it reminded me that like, there's so much of this country that I have not seen that I want to see. Um, so I think next year I might. Maddie and I might make it a point to do like some sort of national park road trip or something, but we'll see.
02:04.04
Sean
nice um i've always dreamed of just going and like driving to go cross-country trip in either like an rv or just with multiple motels and just driving around and staying like a like 52 weeks in 50 52 weeks in 52 states something like that and then you're right sorry it's been a long it's been a long since you've been gone it's been a war zone here
02:18.26
Andrew
There are 50 states, but
02:31.01
Andrew
Oh no, what's happening? Why are you so tired?
02:36.01
Sean
um i count california as two states just for the record and porta rico just just before but i'm not yeah i am not smarter than a fifth grader for what it's worth so um anyway uh i don't know just like you
02:43.80
Andrew
Puerto Rico should be a state, but yeah.
02:55.44
Sean
and You know that thing where they're like, you'll know when you have product market fixed or bang on your door. It's like, have feeling like you have service market fit and people are banging on my door and we say yes to things. and We say no to some things, but like whenever, you know, just, we have a lot of clients and I don't have, we have.
03:12.22
Andrew
I understand.
03:17.00
Sean
Barely amount the amount of people to get all of it done with all the things that are going on.
03:20.77
Andrew
Yeah.
03:23.63
Sean
um um
03:26.14
Andrew
So you're in, you're fully in one of the agency peaks where there's just like too much work and you're happy that there's too much work.
03:34.68
Sean
Yeah.
03:36.60
Andrew
So you're finally not stressed about like paying the bills and making ends meet, but instead that's replaced with doing the work and making sure the work is done to a high standard because, you know, when there's lots of work to go around, it's easy for things to slip through the cracks and yeah.
03:42.32
Sean
Right.
03:49.41
Sean
Yeah. Yeah.
03:52.74
Sean
Yeah. But there's more money in our bank account than ever.
03:54.51
Andrew
Yeah.
03:56.04
Sean
So, you know, that's, that's really cool.
03:59.49
Andrew
Yeah, it really is.
03:59.93
Sean
Um, yeah.
04:00.84
Andrew
This is the thing about agencies is it does feel like you're always trading one type of stress for another. It's either you're like, fuck, I need to find clients. Or it's like, fuck, I need to get this work done for clients. um
04:13.50
Sean
Yeah. I do really think like,
04:18.39
Sean
Like I think I think creative agencies also like creative service providers are also an extra level of like because it's objectives right it's not like I have a friend who runs an MSP or an it's MSP sort of shop, but it's very like those that sort of work is very like oh you get the green checkmark because because the scanner no longer detects an issue so you're good, it's good to go.
04:41.89
Andrew
Yeah, the flip side is like people don't usually call us in the middle of the night because they're like design got hacked into.
04:41.82
Sean
you can like
04:48.71
Sean
You're right. You're right. You're right.
04:50.45
Andrew
So that's, that's like, Oh yeah, that's.
04:50.52
Sean
We do manage websites. We do. Weflo did go down the other day, and that was my nice slide blew the fuck up.
04:54.91
Andrew
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Information
- Show
- FrequencyUpdated Biweekly
- PublishedJuly 31, 2024 at 10:06 PM UTC
- Length48 min
- Episode31
- RatingClean