What The Road System Makes Me Realize…

RoadComparing today and yesterday’s trip to fetch my wife after a training class, I found that traveling on the same road on both days can varies in the time taken to arrive at the destination.

Yesterday, I left office at about 7.00 PM. and reach to the destination on 8.00 PM. It takes 1 hour for me to reach there. And today, the same road, but leaving office at 5.00 PM, I’ve reach there at 5.15 PM.

In my quest of saving time from unnecessary wastage, I’m wondering that just by traveling at different times can save me a big amount of time (and money too). Isn’t this interesting?!

Over the past few months, I’ve been trying different timing of starting my journey to and from my home and office. Observing the amount of time spent with different combination, I’m trying to work out a pattern.

338505_logbookPattern is used by human to predict outcomes from a given set of inputs. The more complete the pattern, the better the prediction model is. So, similarly for success, if we are in the journey to discover the pattern that works for us, we will eventually make it to our destination by applying the right sequence of variables.

Would you agree? That patterns to success does exists.

5 Cases for Paper Carrier Bags to Get Viral

Got this from my friend Tony, who forwarded an email with such interesting photos and thought I put it up to share with you.

Don’t you think this is having a good viral effect?

People would be looking at it and talk about it. Probably would ask the person holding and ask “Hey, where did you get this cool bag?”. Hmmm… interesting!

Click on each photo to enlarge it. Enjoy!

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Have you seen anything similar? Let’s provoke our thoughts.

Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication

The above quote from Leornado da Vinci.

Whether it is in communication, presentation, web design, UI design, always keep it simple. That is where sophistication comes in.

People pay higher price for sophistication rather than complex.

Complex is interesting. Simple is usable. If you have the time, go through the slides below.

The 3 Twitter Benefits for Business are…

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Do you agree that small things make the biggest impact. One of a good example is Twitter.

Less is more. With 140 characters for each message, Twitter has grown wild and have been successful within the web in a very short time.

Now that Twitter is around for a while and there’s an established presence, entrepreneurs and companies should start looking at leveraging on Twitter.

Without delving too deep, let’s start by looking at what are the benefits we can expect from using Twitter.

Establish Loyalty

Loyalty allows a business or company to have consistent revenue based on repeat purchases and referrals.

Twitter allows you to be more accessible, more sociable, more trustworthy.

Maintain Sight

This is pure marketing, out of sight = out of mind. A consistent flow of short messages can maintain relationship and remind your followers of your existence.

Build up a List of Contacts

Allow people to follow you in twitter. All your updates will be visible to them once they follow you.

This is the asset of many marketing efforts. A targeted list or database of contacts, not just any contacts, will provide leverage on future marketing efforts almost immediately, making it much easier to boost up sales.

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This is what I’ve written back in year 2002

My article about Knowledge Workers written back when I just started business not long ago.

In my opinion, knowledge worker is an important concept to grasp.

Just a little side note, I’m currently working on increasing value for everyone I know (my colleagues) by turning them to knowledge workers rather than labor workers.

Labor vs Knowledge

As it may be obvious, knowledge is power.

Those who work on improving on knowledge has higher chance of earning a better income with better lifestyle. Compared to laborious work, it is more towards active income where the income stops as soon as the work stops.

Anyway, here is my article written back in Oct 2002:

Knowledge Workers, The New Workforce

There’s some grammar mistakes along the way, please don’t laugh too hard.

Do let me know your thoughts, ok?

Clarity = Power, But How To Have Clarity?

thoughtsAn advice given from H.L. Hunt if you want to be financially successful (a self-made billionaire who died in 1974). First you need to decide what you want to accomplish. The point here is clarity. Strong definition is vital to any success.

Along my experiences, there are many times I found myself not too clear of what I wanted. Impatience causes me to convey weak messages to my colleagues and expect them to work on it, which then doesn’t happen.

So, the golden question is: How to be clearly defined?

Let’s use tools to help us along.
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Experience is measured by the mistakes made, not by years.

How many mistakes we made? Big and small.

Along the way, we learn from the mistakes in order to not repeat the same mistakes again.

That’s advancements.

How I Escaped from Robbers

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I was almost taken down by the robbers. Worst still, it is so near to me and is invisible. So, it’s hard to fight. I did struggle for a few years and now it is easier since I’ve found a few tricks under my sleeves.
Here are some of the invisible time robbers
  1. Things that I do repeatedly
  2. Things that I don’t like to do
  3. Skills I need to acquire just to do it once or twice (non-mainstream skills)
  4. Things that comes in unexpectedly
  5. Things that took more time because of no-planning
  6. Micro sleeps
  7. Traveling

How I Escaped?

  • Leverage on Other People’s Time

What a Sales Quotation software should be?

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I’m launching a new project on a web application, which will allow anyone to register and create quotations easily.

This application is developed for our own use since we are frustrated to use spreadsheet and word processing such as Word, Excel or similar and find ourselves keep repeating what we are doing.

However, instead of just using it for ourselves, we are looking forward to offer this solution to those who are in similar situation and looking forward to improve productivity in this area.
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Learn Copywriting in 10 Minutes

What is Copywriting?

WritingThe ability to write like a professional. It is even more valuable now as blogging and Internet Marketing popularity on the rise.

If you have copywriting skills, you can save a lot of money and easily improve on your marketing. Also, you can make lots of money offering copywriting services to others.

You can apply this skill in almost anywhere… from books, brochures, emails to TV ads and websites.

Goals of Copywriting

There’s no right or wrong to writing as in to painting an art. The only way to find out is to do popularity testing. If you have a few writings on the same topic, you can rotate and test out which having the highest readers and highest participation rate.

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