Oops

Well, I meant to post for last month but I was in Vancouver over the weekend for Halloween. My resolution is coming along fine. I've been doing 3 dance classes a week as well as other random stuff like stretching at home, walks around town, or going out dancing. My dance classes are awesome. My favourite is still the ballet class, which sadly is only once a week, tho I do love the modern classes. It's been 2 months now, and I'm learning a lot, it's really fun and addictive. Even the other night, I went to a friends birthday party, which was a "30 year old Rockstar Party" they had it at a dance school and set up rockband in one room and DDR in another room. Well, there was barre and mirrors and whatnot, and my friend Kelsey who dances a lot was there.. and alot of the girls at the party do Bellydancing. So, me and Kelsey and this other girl Michelle were making use of the Barre, practicing all these different dance things, it was a blast. Plus Michelle is a trained dance teacher so she was helping me with my pirouettes and giving me some core strengthening exercises. Not often you get to practice pirouettes at a party, so it was a definite highlight, considering I'm obsessed with dance right now.
Even the other night in Vancouver, Paul and I were over at Al and Jamie's place, and the boys were watching movies .. I wasn't particularily interested, so I was practicing my ballet exercises. Same thing at home. I tend to have kinda tight hamstrings and hip flexors, so I've been inspired to stretch more at home to improve my ballet.

So.. other than that, work is going well. I'm finally at the point where I'm not stressing over money anymore. This is a nice place to be. I went shopping for frivolous stuff like a purse over the weekend, and was completely cool with it.. no worry about if I could afford it or not. Things are great at the clinic, I made a decision that I don't really want to market for FRA patients anymore, cuz I wasn't enjoying those treatments as much as my regular ones. And since then, I've been getting tons of regular patients in again. It's fantastic. I love all my new patients, and there's been a lot. last week alone I had 4 new patients. Over the summer, I remember being stoked that I had 8 new patients in a whole month. So 4 in a week is huge. and I had almost that many the week before too.

As far as marketing goes, we just started a new marketing campaign.. it's this "door knob advertising" thing. It's basically a bunch of coupons on a strip that gets hung on every door in a specific area around the clinic, has a distribution of about 9000 homes I believe. Anyways, we do it for 3 months in a row and the cost is only about 400 bucks to each of us. The ad looks quite nice, they designed it for us with our basic ideas and content. So they just delivered the first run, I'm looking forward to seeing if it pans out. It's actually really interesting to see where I get the majority of my business from, and overwhelmingly so far, it's been the yellowpages. I'm glad I paid the extra cash to get a bigger ad in both yellowpages. It costs me about 80 bucks a month, but it's well worth it. I may consider going for something even larger next year.

Ballet

Been a month of dance classes so far and I'm loving it. Modern 2 nights a week and Ballet on saturday mornings. I have easily gotten all my workouts in, and continue to do my marketing plan and tracking for work.

the end

So I think I can Dance?

Alo
Here I am, writing my last "summer" blog. Truth is, summer is not the ideal time for me to workout. There's way too much going on. So therefore, I have not done my "workouts" but have been doing other stuff like tubing down the Cowichan river, and playing Poi or frisbee at the park. I don't really know if that stuff counts.. so, whatever, maybe I lose 2 points, I don't really care too much if I do or not cuz I'm not going to pretend I did workouts.
So I'm really excited about September. I start Dance classes in a couple weeks from now. I have decided to take 2 Modern classes per week, and 1 Ballet class. I'm super stoked about this, I've pretty well been talking about it every day. Infact, I specifically spend 300 bucks on more sheets for my clinic so I wouldn't have to worry about doing laundry on the nights when I have my dance classes.
Anyways, the place I'm going is the only studio in town that offers classes for adults only. They specialize in modern (contemporary) classes as well, which is perfect, as that was my whole reason for wanting to start these classes. I'll be taking the level 1 class, since I'm a noob. I can't wait to start learning new stuff!!
You know, that's one of the reasons why I'm taking classes too.. I find running on the eliptical machine or whatever just about the most boring activity ever.. so to do that 3 or 4 times a week.. ug.. I'd much rather be doing something that's not only exercise, but also fun, and something where I'm learning a new skill or ability. The great thing about this type of dance is that I've never done anything like it before either, so it's completely new!

So, other than exercise, I've been working on my business stuff like a madwoman. I have this massive excel spreadsheet that Bryce helped me out with. I've been entering all my data in there, which I can then use to do different marketing stuff with. Like seeing what worked and what didn't for marketing already. I've been enjoying that a great deal. Who would have thought I'd get so excited over equations? (oh wait, this is me we're talking about, of course I'd get excited over equations.. lol)

July

Kristy says:
that reminds me, I have to write that blog..
Kristy says:
ug
Kristy says:
as if my day isn't busy enough!
Bryce says:
Yeah, you haven't had 30 other days to write it.
Bryce says:
slacker
Kristy says:
speaking of which, tomorrows paycheck will be my 2nd highest paycheck ever
Bryce says:
Not like you have to write much.
Kristy says:
hehe
Bryce says:
"did my revised workouts (walks + workouts), and my marketing plan made a huge leap with a new database that bryce help me design".
Bryce says:
done
Bryce says:
Do i get your blog points now?
Kristy says:
no, I get them! thanks for writing it for me tho
Kristy says:
lol
Bryce says:
You should just copy and paste this whole conversation up
Bryce says:
that'd be funny
Kristy says:
I will
Kristy says:
lol
Bryce says:
Perfect

Le Update

June is almost over, and things have changed for me now that the warmer weather is upon us. I have been doing less traditional workouts.. but it's mainly because I have been so active with other stuff. Work is super busy, of course, but I'm also walking atleast an hour every day just getting to work and back (oh the joy of being car-free), buzzing around doing stuff on my lunch, etc. We've been doing a ton more outdoor activities like frisbee in the park, bocce ball.. (that's hard work, right? ) hiking around town to different markets and festivals, and taking Nathan's dog for walks and all that. So I feel like I've been pretty active. I don't know how to quantify that amount of activity in terms of workouts.. but I think I'm probably pretty good on the activity level.

I've been making great strides on marketing efforts around the clinic, and they are paying off immensely. I've made a marketing "calendar" and each month has more ideas of things to implement into the clinic. So I already have the basic stuff on the go (business cards, a website, large ads in both the telephone books, etc). Then I have ongoing referral marketing thru BNI.. that's a weekly meeting and usually atleast one other "dance" (getting together with another BNI member for coffee to talk about ways we can promote each other and get to know them better).. So that keeps me pretty busy. The Marketing calendar idea is great cuz I write down my ideas for the month as well as target goals. So for instance, April's patient count was 43 office visits and 5 new patients. I set a goal for May of 50 office visits and 8 new patients, and at the end of the month I exceeded that goal with 57 office visits and 8 new patients. That was pretty exciting. Then May's ideas for marketing, I did a internal promotion in the clinic with a little display for FRA offering 50% off the first FRA treatment, and made up some flyers for it and whatnot. I also did an Open house for the women's only gym down the road, and donated a gift certificate as a door prize. I also donated a gift certificate to the Schizophrenic society for some golf tournament they were holding.

This month's idea was to start up a facebook group for the clinic. As of today there are already 103 members in the group, and I only made it a week ago, so that's looking pretty successful. I plan to write articles for the group and then I have access to over 100 people to send that out to. I just want to get the clinic into everyone's subconscious so when they hear someone needs a treatment or whatever, they immediately think of our clinic. The other thing I plan to do for this month is send out a Mail out to existing patients announcing my new designation (Registered Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner .. yay! ). Reason being is 2 fold.. of course for the announcement, but also to touch base with patients that have fallen off of care, and just remind them that I'm still here. The third thing I'm working on this month is getting some articles written for a clinic newsletter. So, busy for me around here, which makes me a happy girl.

Bryce and others take the lead!

that's right people, I lose points for the month of may. I only worked out twice!! you heard me 2 times.. yeah.. it's pitiful. That being said, I do generally walk about an hour a day getting to work and whatnot, so it's not like I'm a complete slob.. however, I'm not counting that sort of thing as my workout.

So.. why was my workout schedule trashed, you might ask? This was my busiest month *ever* for work. I had so many patients booked in, it was completely awesome. And my paychecks were huge.. yay me! I look forward to this being the norm throughout the year.

I worked more on my business plan.. we're doing monthly checkups as a clinic about marketing ideas and goals. It's awesome to get everyone in on these ideas and working together. Infact, I have a staff meeting later tonight to go over stuff like this.

Anyways, back to work.

werk it!

after a slow start to the month, I'm getting caught up. I worked out on Tuesday, Wed, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So that's 7 workouts. 5 more to go in a week and a half, that's doable.