Namics quarantine diary – Week 9

Anyone who has kids below the teenage border knows what I'm talking about: Of course, it is really hard to explain to your kids that mom and dad are at home all day, but it is still not the weekend. And here I have to give a big compliment to all the kids in the home office. You really mastered this extraordinary situation superbly! However, you can still see the same pictures on Skype, hangout and zoom calls over and over again: People switching to "mute" abruptly, making wild gestures to complement the kids not yet captured by the notebook camera.

Then, however, one or the other head stares at the screen from the side and finally at the evening hour, then also sometimes fully integrated into calls. "Daddy! Who is that?" "Holger! "Helga? "No, Holger! The one with the dog!" "Can we see him too? The next thing you know, a new business, an account director, two kids and a dog in a video call.

Today is shooting day. Sounds almost like TV. We want to entertain and get the audience emotionally involved with the planned video. Our business is a people's business. Of course it's about technologies, processes and prices. But at the end of the day, there are always people behind it all, values such as trust and sympathy, in order to want to make a difference together, i.e. between the agency and its customers. Due to the current situation of purely virtual customer presentations, we thought about putting the team together at a table and staging an imaginary introduction round for the customer. Of course, this requires a special set-up in order to bring the "round table" across in a reliable way. After everyone is sitting in his or her own "quiet home office", Paul, Frieda & Co., the collected stuffed animal fraction, has to be used.

You can imagine that such a video shoot means a lot of fun and the material for the outtakes is almost endless. But... also the result is really impressive. I'm already curious what the customer says. 

This week is not an optimal week. At least from a new business point of view. Because of the holiday, which is of course not only dedicated to the fathers, and the chance to build a smooth bridge to the weekend, many customers and those who want to become customers will take their well-deserved time out on Friday. Means for me: 2 days less conversations, exchange and contact. Well, then I'll probably push the tiresome administrative tasks and from next week on I'll pick up the phone again.