I Accidentally Opened a Pop-Up Shop!

Or ... How I Tried to Outwit LinkedIn

I had yet another silly idea the other day.

Have you noticed that LinkedIn will happily bury your most useful posts, but the moment you change your job title it shouts it from the rooftops like your most embarsssing, but favourite, aunt at graduation?

So I wondered… could I outwit LinkedIn?

Could I create a temporary new role - something fun, something real - and let LinkedIn broadcast it far wider than any normal post?

Turns out… yes. Yes I can:

My wife and kids are overseas, visiting Ireland, for 4 weeks, starting this Saturday.

I’m home alone with the dog, 3 beautiful beach, an e-bike, and a calendar that goes very, very quiet as all my clients disappear for their holidays.

I’m not the type to sit still.

So instead of letting the month drift by, I’ve opened a Pop-Up Bottleneck Shop.

A one-month-only, holiday gig!

And I’m hoping I can use LinkedIn to “advertise” it.

These won’t be long engagements. They won’t be big transformations.

Just short, sharp bursts of help to speed things up in your business:

• Untangle an expensive, gnarly business problem that only fresh eyes can see .

• Get a critical project moving again (or better, setting it up to succeed).

• Finding and fix the hidden bottleneck that’s slowing everything else down.

You get me, focused, during the quietest work month of the year.

I won’t work Christmas Day, Boxing Day, or weekends, but the rest is wide open.

NZ, AU, Asia, and the Americas fit neatly with my daylight hours.

Europe works too - your morning is my evening.

My wife jokes that I enjoy my work so much I’m basically on holiday 365 days a year.

So I figured: why not make it useful?

If you want a slot, reply to this email or message me on LinkedIn.

There won’t be many, because … 🏖️,🚴, & 🐶.

(Oh yeah, and I’m supposed to be writing a book too 😜)

— Clarke