Hey folks,

I've never claimed to be a person who is extremely organized or sophisticated with how I store and manage things.

Julianna will tell you the same about me.

For one, she hates my "business card storage container"...

Or as she calls it, "his disorganized fish bowl full of business cards he tosses aside".

1. It is not a fish bowl, I bought it at Target because it is technically a snack container.
2. I lose and leave business cards everywhere. My old dry cleaner back in Wisconsin used to find them in suit pockets and stuff all the time.
3. We've got a fun system now where when the fish bowl gets full, we know it is time to input contacts into our digital CRM and then discard the cards so we can refill the bowl again.

Anyway, we dumped it out recently and started looking at the cards. We counted and realized that between April 14 and August 21, we had 129 business cards.

This means on average we made one new contact every single day since moving here.

Pretty cool.

That also means 129 people I try and remember a unique fact about as I put them in my phone contacts so I don't forget them.

Example:

• "Amy with glasses from coffee mixer"
• "Rude Brian"
• "Rude Brian's rude wife"
• "Insurance guy with red shirt from Las Vegas mixer"
• "Blue shirt insurance guy from Las Vegas mixer"
• "Old insurance guy from Las Vegas mixer"

You get the point.

I'm not saying I've got a super sophisticated system, but it works for me.

One woman who gave me a business card though, I had no clue who she was and then suddenly it hit me. It was the non-descript corporate sounding name on a standard white business card. We met at a luncheon.

Her contact name is "Clueless lady from luncheon".

"What do you do?" I asked at the luncheon we met at.

"My colleagues and I are on a nonprofit board but we're from different companies". She was sitting besides three other people with corporate polos with separate logos I didn't recognize.

Still didn't answer my question.

"So who are you with?"

"The strategic marketing arm meant to bring tourist based businesses together to funnel promotional activity."

[Imagine I had a visible stare of confusion]

"I don't understand"

"We assemble for-profit and nonprofit tour arrangements to help drive business in specific sectors of the state".

"So you're a nonprofit?"

"It's all for for-profit activity".

....

It was like 11am and I was stone cold sober.

To this day, weeks later, I have no clue what the f**k that woman and her colleagues/not-colleagues do.

Anyway, let me show you how its done, especially if you want a creative way to remember who "Remso" is in your phone:

Hi. I'm Remso.

I'm a marketer. I work alongside growing businesses and organizations who want to expand their client pool and establish authority.

My agency, Marketer on the Run, offers full-service marketing services to fit the needs of teams of any size.

That's it, it is that simple sometimes.

It takes me ten seconds and it leaves nobody confused.

WITH THAT SAID THOUGH...

Maybe you do have questions about certain services...

Maybe you want to learn more about how to improve your marketing strategy...

Maybe you want to see your contact nickname in my phone...

Well, you have a great opportunity during our ribbon cutting at the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce on Sept. 26th at 2pm to come ask me whatever you'd like.

Hope to see you all there!

Please register on Eventbrite so we have an accurate headcount.

Talk soon,

Remso W. Martinez

Owner & CEO

Marketer on the Run LLC

Cell: 254-833-1094

https://marketerontherun.com