Intellectual Properties for Acquisition
Dodiodo
September 9, 2024
In Development
Pitchanomenon continues here at Dodiodo, with my first pitches out the door this week for Taye School™ (seeking equestrian market targeted brand partners) and my flagship property (seeking producer). Once out the door, I'll shift back to inside prep tasks of business and marketing plan development for the flagship property, so I can create my brand partnership pitch and also apply for development grant funding.
Advisory
Plenty in Development to keep me busy, but it's also the time of year when for decades I helped other owners kick off their next year's plans. I'm taking my own advice to prepare now for 2025.
This year that includes not only renewing a few clients with whom I now work, but also inviting my past clients to engage now for the new year in my Summit Program, the one behind my most accomplished client's success stories!
Why am I talking about 2025's strategy now? I've been at strategizing with all sorts of companies for three decades, and refined my preferred schedule to focus every day in the new year:
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October: Planning sessions with owner(s) and C-Suite (better still one with all employees too!)
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November: Action Plan development and resource allocation
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December: celebrate last year's accomplishments and introduce the completed plan
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January: hit the ground ready to make the most of every day in the new year
Email me soon if you'd like details for this year-long planning and support program. Your investment is based on whether you are a soloist or company with employees, and whether we'll strategize with only a single owner; owner(s) plus leadership team; or owner plus leadership team and employees. And my availability will depend on which combination of these clients sign up first. (For example, I have room for only two companies with employees who want us to create a strategy with the owner(s), leadership team and employees! But I could work with up to 10 solopreneurs.)
Recovery and Grazing
Taye continues to heal and feel better each day. What fragile and resilient beings horses are! I'm documenting our progress as promised while he learns more letters, and seems nearly bored with simple addition. Time to up our learning game!
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I'm organizing to share footage of our lessons as we pitch prospective brand partners for a series about his progress. Creatively, I marvel that I think I'm wide open to how the series might be structured, but I'm wrong. I have strong preferences for reasons of taste, marketability, and feasibility. We're not building an "Act" to show; we're tracking real-time progress as he learns. It will be a fun social media play to invite followers to request new lessons for Taye to keep us all inspired and gobstopped by his smarts and willingness.
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Listening, Reading, Watching
Debate watch tomorrow night of course! I'm eager to see further evidence of the clear distinction between the candidates and their respective vision for the future. Naturally, I support the party that represents not only majority opinion policies, but also benefits the majority instead of the few.
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And naturally, I don't share anything without backing it by facts. Here's a link to the data behind this meme from filmmaker and activist Michael Moore. His weekly missives are also fact-backed and encouraging; I encourage you to sign up for his free (or dig deeper for paid subscription) emails.
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Farewell Tomatoes
This quick lunch has ingredients I'm using all week long, but to no better use than this simple open-faced sandwich from my latest Vegan chef source, Nisha and her Rainbow Plant Life site. Shown here: Tofu spread - like a cross between hummus and cream cheese - with sliced tomatoes on toasted semolina bread (from Costco!) - and a drizzle of her aleppo chili oil to which I'm completely addicted.