Pool Blogging! – Part Ten (kinda)

The Friends of The Friendless Squad have showered me with neat ideas on how to make a living once my Dad is done with his current projects. I’ll share a couple for your edification (for you linkers and searchers, they don’t involve “secret currency,” “bichon frieses,” “naked Hemet girls,” “pizza by the metre,” or “Russian cockroaches.” Thanks for taking a look though.)

First is the neat idea from my favorite Navy bride. It started as using the Pool Blogging as a marketing tool, but morphed into real documentation for construction projects. Log the progress on the web for absentee clients, then produce a nice photo album for presentation at the end. I think contractors will like the idea because it keeps them from having to answer late night status phone calls. Clients will like it because they can get an update on their terms and be able to look at a chronology of their project. It’s a jobsite blog! I like it a bunch.

I liked it so much that I spent last evening cooking up a flyer for the contractors I had hoped to meet at the San Diego Interior Design & Landscape Expo at the Convention Center earlier today. I chatted up the principles in the booths (surprising lack of Booth Betties there. I was shocked, shocked!), but in the end I chickened out. At the end of the day, I hadn’t handed out a single flyer. I did get a lot of business cards though. Many more phone numbers, and plenty of literature.

Maybe I can sell the service through a targeted email blast…

…oh yeah, they call that spam.

The other idea is just to go to work. I’ve got plenty of small home improvement jobs that will last me for weeks and weeks. The problem I fear is that they won’t pay me weeks and weeks worth of wages, especially if I bid the jobs appropriately. Let’s put it this way, I’ve got weeks and weeks of work, but only a couple weeks worth of income.

What’s wrong with this?

I think that’s obvious.

Your favorite impoverished monkey,

bob

By the way, if you’re wondering what I’m talking about with the references above, I encourage you to search on any of those terms yourself. Mr. Jaunty shows up for each of them. Jah only knows why.