I’ve been tweaking my Adwords and Yahoo search marketing campaigns today. It is always a struggle to figure out what someone who is looking for a business like mine thinks about. In fact I am giving a presentation to the staff from the state visitor’s centers with a similar theme. After 20 years at it I know that there are many visitors to our area who are looking for a guide. Of course they do not know that they are looking for a guide.
We have had a stretch of warm dry days that have increased the wildfire danger and brought out the black flies. The flies are about ten days ahead of schedule. In fact I always look for the spring warble migration when the flies first com out but the warblers are a little behind the flies this year. The phoebes are back though and we can’t leave the garage door open without them spending the day checking out the rafters for nest sites.
I served as a member of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife waterfowl working group. This group is formed of folks interested in the future of Maine ’s waterfowl populations. There were about fifteen of us and as you might imagine the room was filled with a range of opinions. Everyone was there with the best interest of Maine’s ducks and geese and the future but each person brought a different focus or location to the table which made the discussions lively and interesting. I was not jealous of the facilitator who had to try and keep us on topic and productive.
