If, like me, you’ve searched for anything teaching or training related recently, you’ll no doubt have been inundated with ads for online training in everything from creative writing and playing the ukulele to Artificial Intelligence and how to manage your stocks and shares. (I wish.)

 We are indeed living in strange times. While key workers literally risk their lives to care for and feed us right now, millions of others are confined to their bedrooms desperately trying to maintain a semblance of sanity and an income of sorts.

It seems that anyone who can sell their wares online right now, is quadrupling their marketing efforts. Pretty much all of my trainer friends are adapting their face-to-face material for virtual classroom workshops. (I bet I’m not the only one who wishes they’d bought shares in Zoom last year.) And I am no different.

So, I’ve dedicated this month’s email to promoting (hell, there’s no point dressing it up as anything else) the ways I might be able to help you learn, improve or master a skill you’ve been meaning to, well… learn, improve or master… for years.

I’m also plugging my copywriting, editing and proofreading servicesin case you’re using this time to overhaul your website. And I might as well draw your attention to my playsin case you feel compelled to put on a virtual performance sometime. (In for a penny, etc.)

And, yes, yes, while I’m helping you, I’m clearly helping myself.

But if I’m earning money, I’ll be able to go on paying my cleaner and my window cleaner, and shop at my greengrocer and local supermarket, so I’ll be helping to keep this dismal economy from going completely under.

Above all, stay home, stay safe and help save lives.

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash