4 Lessons Learned from Writing 200 Issues of a Newsletter
When I first started Tech Biz Gurl, it was a blog that then morphed into offering services and later tutorials. But at the time, I had a day job where I had a little bit more free time on my hands.
After a layoff and then picking up a demanding job for a couple of years, I was at a point where I wasn’t happy with the time I was putting into my business. And I was feeling extremely burnt out. Then in late 2015, I started a new job which was a lot more aligned with what I wanted to do career-wise and had a more predictable schedule.
After taking about 9 months to get ramped up, I felt like I had the time and the brain space to really think about my business again. But the thought of doing all the things I had done before (services, tutorials, marketing, discovery calls, you name it) just seemed so overwhelming. And because I only had at most 2–3 hours a week to dedicate to the business, I realized that something had to change.
I started to think about things I could do in the time I had available that would help me show up for my people but also provide value. And that’s where the idea of #jesspicks started. I had played around with the idea of starting a curated newsletter for a while but never really took the plunge.
