๐Since Skool Events Daily went all posh and joined the World Wide Web, Des has started showing off
Apparently while I'm in New Zealand snoring my head off, he's over there, thousands of miles away, quietly slipping clever little things onto the website.
And I wake up in the morning to messages along the lines of...
โ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐.โ
Which is dangerous.
Because lately I look at ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด and think...
๐ข๐ต. ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐'๐ ๐ฏ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ ๐ด๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ.
And, even more annoyingly...
๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ป'๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ธ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ถ๐.
Who would have thought? ๐
But it's actually made me realise something.
When something is yours, you can get ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ผ ๐ฐ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ถ๐.
I spend more time inside Skool Events Daily than is probably medically advisable. I know how it works. I know why things are where they are. I know what we're trying to achieve.
Which also means I can completely miss something that's staring me in the face.
Des comes at it from a different angle and sees something else.
And I reckon we do exactly the same thing with our events.
We create the title, the banner, the description, the registration page. We know what it all means because ๐๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ถ๐.
But when was the last time you gave the whole lot to somebody who knows absolutely nothing about your event and said:
โ๐ง๐ฒ๐น๐น ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ธ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐.โ
Not โ๐๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต?โ
That's useless. They'll say yes because they're nice.
Ask them what they think it's about. Who they think it's for. What they think they'll get from it. Whether anything confused them.
Then shut up. ๐๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐ฒ๐
๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ถ๐.
Because what they see ,without you filling in the gap, is much closer to what a complete stranger scrolling past your event will see.
So this week, I'm giving Des his moment.
Fresh eyes are bloody useful.
Although at the rate he's currently pulling ideas out of the bag while I'm asleep, I may have to start staying up all night just to keep an eye on him.
๐๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ฒ, ๐๐ฒ๐. ๐ก๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐น๐. ๐