Last week, a friend was giving a presentation for work, and asked if she could include a slide with a few email tips she’d learned from me. At the top of the slide was an explanation of who I was.
“Here’s some advice from Dan Oshinsky,” she’d written, ”newsletter guru.”
I cringed.
The truth is, I’m not a guru, or an expert, or any of the other titles that people throw around. I’ve seen a lot in my time in this space, and shared a lot with others. But the thing I like most about my job isn’t that I get to share what I’ve learned with my clients.
It’s that I get to keep learning.
Often, as I get to work with a client, we’ll realize that there are things they want to try that I don’t have the answers for. And to me, that’s the most exciting part of the job — the chance to learn something completely new!
So we’ll start asking a few questions. We’ll dig into the issue. I might even reach out to others who’ve tried something similar, just to get their perspective.
And then we’ll start to test and learn. We’ll keep asking questions until we get some answers — even if they’re not the answers we expected.
I know that I don’t have all the answers. But I have a lot of the questions to help me figure out how to get the answers that me and my clients need.
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That’s a photo of me giving a talk at an event in Sydney in 2019.