#ThirstyThursday Issue #257

🎁 Heads up: Boss’s Day is this Friday.
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Takeaways:

• Make your headline and banner immediately explain your value. Instead of simply writing “Founder at Acme,” try something like “I help B2B SaaS teams turn LinkedIn into a booked calendar,” then use your banner to showcase one strong piece of proof or a measurable result.
• Treat your About section like a landing page. The first two lines are what people see before clicking “see more,” so use them as a hook and write directly to the specific person you want to reach.
• Make the rest of your profile support the conversion. Fill your Featured section with useful resources or lead magnets, and make sure your most recent or pinned posts represent your strongest content. The creator recommends fixing your headline, banner, About section, Featured section, and pinned post before focusing on publishing more content.

Read the full LinkedIn post.

You see the three dots pop up in Slack and already know what’s coming. Same question as last Tuesday. And the Tuesday before that.

Being the go-to person is a compliment right up until it eats your whole calendar. Every “can you walk me through it one more time?” pulls you out of real work, and nobody’s writing “answered 14 Slack pings about expense reports” on your performance review.

Here’s the fix we’d text our best friend: create a Tango. Download the free Chrome extension and do the task the way you normally would. Tango automatically turns every click into a step-by-step guide with screenshots. No writing, no formatting, no 40-page doc nobody reads.

Next time someone asks, just send a Tango. They get the exact steps and learn it right the first time, and you get your afternoon back.

Make one for the new hire starting Monday, the month-end report only you know how to pull, and the handoff before your vacation.

Whatever the question, Tango’s got your back.

👉 Send your first Tango (it’s free).

Takeaways:

• Get better analysis by telling Copilot exactly what to examine and what you want to learn. Instead of “analyze this data,” try: “Analyze the sales data in columns A (Date), B (ProductCategory), and C (Revenue). Identify and summarize the key sales trends over the last 12 months.”
• Use Copilot for more than basic analysis. Ask it to create formulas for metrics like CAGR, build forecasts from historical data, flag anomalies in transaction logs, find data-validation errors, analyze cash flow for potential issues, or reconcile invoices against bank receipts.
• Give Copilot the context it needs, including specific sheets, columns, cells, time periods, thresholds, and desired outputs. For example: “Analyze column D, flag anything above 5%, and compare it to last quarter.” The more specific the request, the more useful the output is likely to be.

Read the full LinkedIn post.

Takeaways:

• Make Outlook work harder for you by color-coding your calendar so you can understand your day at a glance, then turn emails that require action into tasks or flag them so they don’t disappear in your inbox.
• Create one home for your meeting notes in OneNote so they’re organized and searchable, and use Calendly to eliminate the back-and-forth of scheduling by letting people book directly into your available times.
• Use Microsoft Copilot to take repetitive work off your plate. Have it summarize long email threads, draft responses, and recap meetings so you can spend less time catching up and more time on the work that needs your attention.

See the full post on IG.

Boss’s Day is Friday, October 16, and if you’re the one organizing the card, you know how it goes: a paper card making its way desk to desk for a week, half the team working remote, and one person who never gets around to signing.

GroupTogether puts the whole card online in about two minutes. Send one link and everyone signs from wherever they are, no account needed, with room for as many messages, photos, and GIFs as the team wants.

• Send it digitally on the day, or download a PDF to print
• Collect money for an eGift card in the same place (no more chasing people on Venmo)
• Used by 42,000+ companies

Use code BOSS26 to make your card free.

👉 Start your Boss’s Day card.

Takeaways:

• Start with renter-friendly materials that don’t require permanent construction. The creator used interlocking waterproof deck tiles for the floor and vertical extension rods in each corner of the balcony to create a removable frame for the enclosure.
• Enclose the balcony with stainless steel reinforced cat netting secured to the rods with zip ties. Wrap the net tightly around each rod, fasten it from top to bottom, secure the rods to the railing with overlapping zip ties, and use silicone tape to give the ties extra grip. The creator also attached the bottom of the net to the deck tiles and used Command hooks where tiles wouldn’t fit.
• Once the balcony is securely enclosed, make it a space your cats actually want to use. The creator added an outdoor loveseat and a 5-foot weather-resistant cat tree, with plans to add plants and more decor. Before letting cats roam unsupervised, make sure there are no gaps or loose areas they could squeeze through.

Watch the full tutorial on Pinterest.

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