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On reviews

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According to this article:

More to the point, however, is that we can’t really trust early reviews. I always recommend caution when it comes to buying products that have just launched and I rarely take my own advice. Many devices only begin to exhibit problems after lots of use and many faulty devices pop up only after the first batch of highly scrutinized devices runs out.
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In the end, the real reviews are the ones that percolate up out of the forums and blogosphere.

So, what are my thoughts on this?

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Researching products – it’s for the value also, not only for the better price

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Researching products - it's for the value also, not only for the better price

Whenever I buy something online, I do some research. Things which interest me: Price (Is it a cheap product? Where can I get the product at a better price?) Price per value. Have I tested the products? Have other users tested the product? If so, what is their feed-back? Have famous reviewers (magazines & blogs) reviewed the product? What is their opinion? How does the product stand when you look at the top products sold in the category, at eMAG? What’s the product’s place on price.ro Top 10 lists? What’s the brand? Is it a reliable brand? Compatibility with other products in my house. Design. Can I buy the product without caring for warranty, or should I look for a store which gives me good warranty conditions? OK, if I have to pick, I generally pick a combination between „not to expensive” and „top sold products on eMAG”. Then I look for a cheap provider of the product (if I don’t care for the warranty that much). What’s to notice? When I buy a product, the value of the product matters also. It’s not all about the price. Price matters, but isn’t everything.

Valuing clients

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Valuing clients

Two options: Some phone makers launch a product, give some products to beta testers, and then put the products on sale for the general public. Apple launches a product, then only makes the product available for everybody, not favoring the beta testers. Which option is better? The beta testers do spread the word for your products. Giving the product to everybody at the same time shows you value your clients as much as testers. I like Apple’s solution better.

Buying fruits & vegetables from the supermarket

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Buying fruits & vegetables from the supermarket

Until recently, I tended to buy green stuff (vegetables, fruits) from the peasant’s market. After a bit of thinking, I decided:  It’s always OK to buy exotic stuff from the supermarket (I used to do this, already). Buying from peasants gives you a possibility – the fruits & veggies may come from people who don’t do fertilizers. Buying from the supermarket gives you a certainty – you certainly know the origin, and you should know that they generally did things which are legal to the products. I used to see all of the advantages of a peasant’s market, and none of the supermarket’s. Now I see no reason to avoid buying Romanian grapes from Carrefour. I can buy them from peasant’s market, but I can also buy them from Carrefour. It’s about the same.

Share, reshare, tweet, retweet, like – or not?

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Let’s say you’re company X. You’re on Facebook. You have 150 likes, and most of your articles get no comments, but when they do, they’re from your customers you like. You’re also on Twitter, and have 50 followers, who read you, but you don’t interact much with them. Let’s say you’re company Y. On Facebook, you have 2,500 likes, but close to no one interacts with you. On Twitter you have 400 followers, but they’re very passive. Let’s say you’re company Z. You have 200 likes on Facebook, but when you post something, you have interactions. On Twitter you have 100 followers, with whom you communicate quite a lot. In my opinion, a company in X’s position wants to get to Z. More likes, more followers. That’s it. If I were X, I would strive to get to Z. Not more people who „like” you (but are passive), but more people with whom to engage. Much more difficult to view as success, but this is success, in my opinion – an active community.

„The principles on how to develop an application are harder than the development itself”

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You look at a web site and you may think – „Hmm, I bet I could have thought of that. But to implement it, boy, now this is hard”. I’ve heard, years ago, at a Internetics events, one guy doing web design for major corporations. He said coming up with fresh & new ideas is much more difficult than implementing it. Quite true. I can look at my blog (OK, not a big corporation, I have to admit) and tell you that it’s much more difficult knowing what to place where, than actually doing it. I can Google things, find out someone else with a similar problem, and – voilà.

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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Hi,

I find the following four resources fine for duplicate content.

Some ideas from the above blog posts?

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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.