Atlanta
In a recent post on the Newbie board, (“A Unique Insight into a Provider's Mind”) a gentleman wrote of how much time a provider friend devoted each day to such tasks as answering email, providing reciprocal verifications and other such mundane activities related to the hobby. I’ve seen this first hand as I gotten to know the ladies during my time at TER. I’ve met ladies who recognize the importance of this behind the scenes activity and I’ve met ladies who tend to blow it off. The former struggle to make time for this necessary activity. When the latter get complaints about not responding to emails or phone calls, they often fall back on a convenient excuse such as “My computer crashed and I lost a bunch of email,” “My phone wasn’t working,” or my personal favorite excuse, “I have a stalker. He’s filling my voicemail so I stopped answering my phone!”
This raises some interesting questions. Feel free to answer any or all of them. 
1. How many hours per day/week do you spend reading/answering email?
2. How much of this email is nuisance email (ranging from inappropriate questions to chit chat from people who have no intention of meeting you)?
3. How much of your time is devoted to the verification process (exchanging email with other providers or making phone calls)?
4. Do you read the boards everyday?
5. Do you just post your schedule on the boards or do you attempt to get involved in the board community? (Do you recognize that posting more often is a valuable tool to drive more traffic to your website?)
6. How often do you add content to or update your website?
7. Do you do all this behind the scenes work by yourself or do you employ somebody to help you?
8. If you have a helper(s), do you use the helper as extra security by calling the helper to check in when you begin and end an appointment?
Thanks in advance for your input.
thirsty
-- Modified on 3/21/2004 10:46:02 AM
