April 30, 2003
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Ai-yi-yi…thought I was SO clever…
I won’t give up! Maybe it will work part of the time; maybe it will work MOST of the time, when Mercury isn’t retrograde… maybe it will NEVER work and I’ll just have to keep working around it… maybe I’m not as smart as I thought I was.
I thought I had a plan, a system (at KaiOaty’s place) that would funnel prospective clients through the disclaimers and FAQ, and would filter out the inappropriate questions and the ones that can be answered by the FAQ. So far it is a dismal failure, no one has been willing to follow my explicit instructions, but the sample is still small and Merc is still bassackwards so there might be some glimmer of hope.
Greyfox could never see the point anyway, in trying to filter OUT clients. Each time I showed him part of the system, he got a blank puzzled look. Each time I asked him to proofread and edit, he came up with alternatives that were designed to suck people in instead of weeding them out. If the man who has lived with me for going on 13 years, who was my business partner before he decided that shamanism didn’t pay well enough for him, doesn’t get it, will anyone ever get it?
It seemed great in theory: put my years of experience and expertise into a series of FAQ pages that would answer at least 95% of the questions I’m usually asked, and spend my retirement happily answering the other 5% in personal readings. At the same time, the effort of navigating the FAQ to find the place to put the questions would increase the perceived value of the service, so my work would not just be tossed aside as a valueless freebie.
There is a hole in the system I don’t know how to plug… at least not yet. While I work on the questions that have been dropped in the wrong place, I guess some part of my brain will be working on plugging the hole. This, I suppose, is what a shakedown cruise is supposed to do: find the glitches.
I’m outta here… got work to do. Seeya mañana, on my Xangaversary.
Comments (9)
Uh oH… I hope it wasnt me!
Happy Xangaversary.
For a while I thought I’d do readings for people. I met some high-powered professional astrologers and intuitives who sure seemed to be driving nice cars.
A friend of mine asked one of these astrologers what she usually gets asked about by clients and prospective clients. She said, “If they’re a prospective client, and they ask me something I can answer, they become a client, so it really doesn’t matter.”
I guess that’s how you end up driving a nice car by being an astrologer. It helps to know scads of rich people, too, I suppose.
The other extreme was another astrologer, one who might have written a book or two for New Falcon.
He was charging $150 per reading last I heard. If you didn’t really truly mean to ask the question, you wouldn’t pay $150 to have it answered.
Don’t dismay. Just say no to people you don’t want to deal with. That should be FAQ #1: Why Didn’t You Want To Do A Reading For Me? Answer: You didn’t read the other FAQs.
bigoted discrimination is still a good way to weed out people…..
The FAQs sound like an excellent idea – I know it must be tough not to be discouraged, but you’ll get there in the end!
Happy Xangaversary.
Hope you enjoy your Xangaversary!
So, a retrograde means that everything is fucked? It’s not just me then? Whew!
Here and I thought I’d followed directions…
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