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ideas, Personal

Sex and Money – Balanced and Focused?

I am sure that I have written about this before but after having conducted one or two searches I cannot find it…Anyway perhaps in state of exhaustion last year I imagined that I had done it. Which brings me around to what this blog post is about, I could have called it “Work and Money” but how interesting would have that have been. Work is not something that is going to grab our attention. Sex and money our primeval forces in the market. Often people that seek money understand the power of sex. Which we all must be aware of. Can cause great off balance and out of focus realities. I want to focus on the other side in this blog post.

Are you Balanced and Focused?

Often new ideas can grip us so that we will become engrossed in the carrying them out. Which is fine as that’s what new ideas is all about. Focusing on your goal is a key ingredient in bringing anything to life. There are also a number of other ingredients.

If one works all the hours that god sends us one will eventually dry up on ideas, and work becomes a core. Which also translates in to the same for anybody having to work with you. To over work is never good. We all want to get ahead and achieve the goals we set. By ignoring everything else, what will be the price we must pay when we achieve it. Will we be able to enjoy it? Fundamentally it is about having you cake and eating it. Very easy to say but much harder to implement.

Planning is also a key ingredient. You may have 2 free hours in the evening but filling those up after having worked all day may not really help yourself at all. There are very few things in life that we have to do. By this I mean if we do not do them would the world stop. The events and things that we want to do, we will always do. The trick is to do them in the most enjoyable way we can.

Hence one good conversation, blog post, client can be hundred times more effective than the reverse of this equation. Being balanced and focused will achieve that. Does that make sense?

Traffic, Websites

Don’t Be Afriad To Follow

4 Comments

Just this morning I subscribed to comments from a couple of blogs. One in closed club called triiibes the other was a blog post from Dosh Dosh. Yesterday I commented on Sherrlynnes blog. Over the last couple of years some of us may feel the need to use the internet with caution. While there is some truth in this in relation to certain sites and money transfers. Most of the inter net is very safe.

For example if you subscribe to diffent blog/topics that you find interesting you can always with in 2 clicks unsubscribe. Rss is even safer where no personal information is being exchanged.

Considering that the Internet provides a wealth of largely free information it is a great pity not to benefit from this by using safe and standard tools. Follow your heart and see where it leads. 🙂

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The Future of Nursery Rhymes

I do wonder where this comes from,

Simple Simon met a pie man going to the fair.
Said Simple Simon to the pie man
‘What have u got there?’
Said the pie man unto Simon
Pies you dickhead.
 
 
Mary had a little lamb
it ran into a pylon.
10,000 volts went up its bum
and turned its wool to nylon.
 
 
Georgie Porgie Pudding and Pie
kissed the girls and made them cry.
When the boys came out to play
he kissed them too cause he was gay.
 
 
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
And planned to do some kissing.
Jack made a pass
and grabbed her ass
Now two of his teeth are missing.
 
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white and wispy.
Then it caught Foot and Mouth Disease
And now it’s black and crispy.

Consultancy, fun, ideas, Marketing

Top Page Views for July/Augusts 2008

Top pages Views for July/Augustus 2008:

It has been while since I have done this, due to a problem with my stats system, I must remember also do this on Work Connexions site. Any where here they are as chosen by you.

At number five:

How to sell a product simply but effective advice.

5. http://blog.wcx.me/2008/08/7-selling-skills-using-the-word-payment/

At number four:

All about the domain name game. My story about small domain names, ones that are easy to write like wcx.com or delight.biz

4. http://blog.wcx.me/2008/08/domain-names-what-are-they-worth/

At number three:

Simple but effective advice for page rank.

3. http://blog.wcx.me/2008/08/top-trick-to-increase-page-rank/

At number two:

How are you keeping your data safe. Explore the world of options

2. http://blog.wcx.me/2008/07/how-is-everybodies-backup-procedure-an-easy-backup-plan/

Number one is:

What sort of return do you expect from your advertising, the million dollar question

http://blog.wcx.me/2008/08/expected-roi-return-on-every-marketing-dollar-spent/

business, Consultancy, E-Commerce, money, Relationship

Value of Social Networking in Dollars

Just recently somebody tried to sell there twitter profile on Ebay. Strange as it may seem and almost laughable. He did manage to get $1,125 plus for his profile

Is this real value of his network? It may not be so far wrong. Moving into the 21st century more and more people will be conducting there sales research, people research etc online. If you do not have profile you may well be drawing a blank. People will expect to be able to reference you or check you out online. In the pursuit of sales I imagine that all these companies are going to be using these tools.

 

Would I employ somebody who is well networked? Sure I would.

The real value in social networking may be only just be starting to be unraveled, while I am not suggesting that we all start selling our profiles. I do think that individuals with well managed net works will be setting themselves up for whole lot more business at sometime in the future. As posted here by Owen, we may be related to every one much closer than we think. By networks in this blog post I am referring to social media sites, whether that is Linkedin, Facebook, community sites or a blog. To name but a few.

 

What do you think?

Management, Personal

Getting On with People

With out doubt one of the greatest business assets of any company or individual is the ability to get on with people. Bill Gates is obviously very good at it but just about any person in business has to get on with people. What if though it crosses your social or religious views. Do you think you can still get on with them?

Many people find this a great problem. Somebody thinks or acts differently than they would like. What would you do?

Do you agree with them smile and keep peace or do you tell them what you think? How good is it to keep things hidden from others and how good is it to express it?

Many questions and know clear rule of thumb.

The important thing to remember in human interaction is that you are only responsible for yourself. If the other party behaves in inappropriate manner it reflects upon them and nobody else. No matter what they are saying about you.

Taking time to respond or not to respond at all is the greatest control over the situation one has and usual is of more of a benefit to yourself and every body else in the short and long term.

Making sure you are happy and challenged it is the only way forward.

E-Commerce, money

Net Profit Campaign

For a while now I have been thinking about Company profits, and how that is relayed in the media, and in particular on the TV/Radio. When company profits are announced it is always the gross amount.

Why it that? And can we do any thing with it

What is the Gross Profit? This Wikipedia entry explains it nicely

 

Gross profit is found by deducting the cost of goods sold:

Gross profit = Net sales – Cost of goods sold

 

What I find confusing is that when these figures are quoted in the news it tells us nothing about the company. For example if it brought or sold parts of it business, this would not give an accurate view of sales or what its operating costs are? If these are high it could end up making no money. Gross profit tell us nothing at all. In fact I think it is more misleading and used by some companies as a sort voodoo explanation for its accounts.

What I would like to see it Net income used more by media as a more accurate way to gauge a companies performance. What is Net profit?

 

Net profit or other wise know as net income is:

Net income = Gross profit – Total operating expenses

The amount this calculation show us tell us much more about the company.
For example an internet company may only have Gross profit of 1 million, if it operation expenses are 100,000 than it profit base line is very healthy.

Alternatively Cement Company Y may have a profit of 1,5 million, but it operation expenses and margin is very high. Let say 60 percent. Meaning that it’s net income (profit) is 600,000. This company is then less profitable than the internet company although is has a higher profit.

Net income is what we need to focus on and concerned about. Gross profit it just voodoo business. It enough people support this idea by commenting below than I would like to take it further.

Let me know you thoughts?