Don't complain (or compromise)...DELEGATE!
Who says YOU have to be the one to do MarketWatch?
What if you could concentrate on wrting the nice personal bonding message, and every other part of delivering MarketWatch you think is going to be very time consuming could be done by someone else.
You guys have it easy compared to what we had to go through to deliver MarketWatch when I first started doing it. We didn't even have the Internet. It was all Catalogs...so we had to cut and paste.
Did I complain?
No.
I Delegated.
Enter Darlene. She was the one who was responsible for all the actual work. Not me. It would never have gotten done if it was up to me.
I've told the story of Darlene a lot. So I'm not going to do it here...but if you haven't heard it, it's in your Owner's Manual.
Right now, within 2 miles of your office, is someone who would LOVE to have something to do for money on Wednesday afternoons. They're internet and computer savvy. They're organized. They love routine, and they're dependable.
MarketWatch is something you can set up to be run without you....quite well.
Let's say you did it every other Wednesday...and it took your "Darlene" all afternoon to do it. 4 hours @ $10/ hour is $80 a month. ($160 a month if you did it every week)
That's less than $2000 for the entire year. About a THIRD of what you guys told me was the national average commission.
This is what I would call a "no-brainer".
New Years Resolution #1 -- MarketWatch on Autopilot.