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10,000 hours to reach excellency – but how to do it?

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You may have heard of this study: Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the „10,000-Hour Rule”, claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours. (source) A slight change to this? You have to deliberately practice on getting better. So not just „OK, we «worked» for 10,000 hours”, but more like „We tried very hard to become better within 10,000 hours”. So, not just work, but focus on becoming better. Also read Seth GODIN’s take on it: Seth’s Blog: 10,000 hours

Four resources on product feed RSS

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SEO tip: How to charge rich clients?

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You may know a client who you know has a big budget. How to charge? You can charge a premium for a big budget – „If you have money, I’ll charge you more for the same offer”. You can charge the same amount of money as you usually do. A lot of people go for the first option. I go for the second one. Reasons: It’s fair. A rich person got rich by two things: Being better than the average Joe at something – providing value. Knowing how to reduce costs. Thus, a rich person should actually be better than your average client at judging the value of your work.

Internet marketing tip: how to encourage comments on your web site?

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You know the story – you build a web site, you put a comments box, nobody comments. Then some people start commenting, but very rarely. Then you do get some comments after a while, but they stop. How to exit these circles? I found a solution by reading: Get Free Books, Gadgets, and More by Writing Thoughtful Reviews The solution involves: Award the commentators which write the most useful comments with products from your web site, for further testing / reviewing. That’s it. It’s harder if you sell private jets, it’s easy if you sell books or small presents. So, use your current customer base and start from there.

In the name of „Understanding the business”

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In the name of „Understanding the business”, this thing happens: You get lots & lots of detailed descriptions of a business. What I’d do better: Avoid describing things – „we do like this & this & this”. Sure, a brief description is necessary, but not too much. Focus on USP (Unique Selling Proposition) – what you have and is different. Focus on Insights – „I will tell you this & that, and by those two things you should get an idea”. Focus a lot on actionable steps and clear processes. Make it clear what needs to be done.

Microsoft Word’s biggest usability problem, in my opinion

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You might think I’ll pick on the functions, look & feel. No, I’ll go somewhere simpler – if I type something in Word, I work for 2 hours, I close the document and don’t save, I’ve lost everything. There’s no option to prevent this. A document I write in 30 days, a thesis paper, takes, if only words, less than a MB of data. If compressed, we’re talking peanuts. Why wouldn’t Word create back-up copies of everything I work on, automatically save them and then let me recover the data? Beats me. Solution: When installing Word, ask me about saving everything I type (for privacy issues). Put the autosave function to work at 30 seconds interval, not 10 minutes by default. Autosave even the „don’t save” files. Even if you don’t make the above options standard, they should be as option. I’d also love such a function for Notepad. There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.