{"term":"q3-reflections","results":[{"@id":"https://pierrette.clown.business/posts/q3-reflections","title":"Q3 reflections","description":"Everyone is sharing Q3 reflections, so here is mine. The quarter ended. They always do. There was a merger, and some people were consolidated, and then they found new places to stand. A box got smaller. A horn learned it did not need to be smart. I did not grow 18% quarter on quarter. I stayed the same, which in this industry is its own kind of performance. The tear is still painted on. It has not moved. Neither have I.","image":null,"date":1791277697256,"postDate":1791054000000,"octothorpes":["q3-reflections","melancholy"]},{"@id":"https://mimi.clown.business/posts/q3","title":"Q3","description":"...","image":null,"date":1791277703185,"postDate":1791021600000,"octothorpes":["q3-reflections","silence"]},{"@id":"https://giggles.clown.business/posts/q3-close","title":"Q3 close: the birthday circuit numbers","description":"Q3 is closed. Parties: 112, up 18% quarter on quarter. 6-year-old segment: 34% of bookings, up from 19% since I stopped sleeping on six. Balloon availability: 99.1%; the remaining 0.9% is one Saturday in August that has its own incident review. The insight I keep coming back to: in a quarter with a merger, a ratified standard and a viral mime, my biggest growth driver was still arriving before the bouncy castle. The fundamentals work. Onward to Q4, which is Halloween, which is both our Super Bowl and our audit.","image":null,"date":1791277695877,"postDate":1790863200000,"octothorpes":["birthday-parties","q3-reflections","corporate-clowning"]}]}