Ophelia’s Business Hack of the Week: The Time-Traveling Text Trick!
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✨Ophelia’s Business Hack of the Week: The Time-Traveling Text Trick!✨
Gather round, my spellbound entrepreneurs, for I have uncovered a most wondrous enchantment—straight from the wise and formidable Cheryl, Head Business Witch Extraordinaire! 🧙♀️✨
Earlier this week, late at night, I finally curled up in my lair with a mug of enchanted cocoa, and ping! A customer texted me. I glanced at it. It’s a quick question—"I should answer this now," I thought to myself.
But then the annoying little gremlin in my head said, "If you do, you’re whispering an unspoken incantation: Summon me anytime, day or night, and I shall appear! And before you know it, your precious downtime is but a misty dream."
Ugh! What's business owner to do?
You see, I have an affliction known as "I Must Answer This Immediately or It Ceases to Exist in My Brain Forever" syndrome.
But, Cheryl taught me a counterspell that rearranges the fabric of time itself! -And I'm bursting to share it!
I've already taught 7 other people this week, so what's another 2,000? Right?
✨How to Rearrange the Fabric of Time While Providing Great Customer Service and Maintaining Sanity, er, Boundaries✨
So, what’s the solution?
(and perhaps also a Tech Wizard), revealed a spell of pure *genius. Behold-🎇Scheduled Text Messaging 🎇
Yes! You can answer messages whenever your brain insists, but instead of sending them immediately, you can schedule them to send at an appropriate time—like, say, business hours! (so you don’t forget—because let’s be honest, some of us have the memory of a distracted squirrel in acorn season!)
🔮 How to Perform This Sorcery:
1️⃣ Type your reply as usual. (Before it vanishes into the void of forgotten tasks.)
2️⃣ Instead of sending it, tap that mystical little “+” button next to your message field (on Android, Apple, or Google messaging apps).
3️⃣ Select "schedule send" from the list of magic spells and choose a time that subtly reinforces your work hours.
4️⃣ Marvel at your own brilliance.
Customers will receive it at the right time and think, "Ah yes, Ophelia is a professional who works at normal times, how reasonable!" (mwahahaha...little do they know I sleep like a baby - for short intervals around the clock, of course)
💡 Bonus Trick!
If you have customers who are also a little forgetful (you know who they are), teach them this trick! (Fellow squirrel-brained folk, I see you 👀.) They'll appreciate the ability to write messages when they remember and still respect your hours.
Since implementing this, my boundaries are intact, my customers are happy, and I have dramatically reduced my "Oops, I meant to reply but got distracted by a butterfly wearing a tiny hat" moments.
Try it, and let me know how it changes your life! Until next time, may your business be prosperous, your boundaries be strong, and your messages arrive exactly when they should. 🌈✨
From one forgetful squirrel to another, ✨
Ophelia 🌈
Wander In, Wonder Out!
P.S. If only there were a way to schedule responses to our own forgetfulness… Oh wait! That’s called “setting a reminder.” I should probably do that now🤔… Hey! There’s a puppy outside!
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