Final Plans for Our Safe Return to Work (I Hope) The leadership team at Hot Dog Marketing finished up our Return-to-Work plan for the team and it’ll happen in phases starting in August. Our Director of Strategy, our office manager, and I will return to the office Monday – Friday (as we can) since we…

Another week – another journal entry working from home. I found out yesterday that my friend’s software company probably won’t return to work until September. They did some test runs with some employees coming back for hybrid online/in-person meetings, and they came across too many issues to resolve quickly. We’ll be getting a storage unit…

Stockpiling Cash or Paying Back Loans Now? If you read or listened to any of our Zig Zag podcasts, you may have heard the advice to stockpile cash. We certainly did. We made our credit lines liquid even with our approval of a PPP loan just in case we needed it and wanted to get…

This week is all about planning on returning to the office. I’ve been thinking about how we’re going to handle this, and a lot of the final decisions will depend on the response to the survey I’m going to send to the team. What? Rather than hypothesize what my employees are thinking, I think I’ll…

The governor opened up certain Texas businesses, and in Austin the amount of hospitalized cased doubled in the last few days even though Austin extended their Stay at Home order until June 15. Looks like we’ll be working from home until July. I spent most of my time in the recent weeks managing the PPP…

The governor’s office reported this week that he was going to let the Stay-at-Home order expire at the end of the month. I started to think about how I would handle going back to the office soon if we’re able to. The governor included strict checklists employers and employees would have to follow to go…

Surprisingly, our team adapted to working from home pretty quickly. I’m grateful we have a great IT company that had already set us up with a VPN solution and a server we can tap into. That decision to upgrade our technology happened about a year ago, and it was an unplanned expense, but I could…

I find it hard to believe that anyone REALLY wants to hear what I have to say. That doesn’t prevent me from saying it, because if nothing else, I love to hear myself speak. However, recently, our team has said that the reason why it’s effective to have me in conversations with our clients is…