Earlier this year, I was reading a book called “The 4-hour Workweek” (by Timothy Ferriss), and I came across an interesting sales technique called “The Puppy Dog Close”.
Basically, this sales technique is used if someone wants to buy something, but they are hesitant. An example of this would be when the salesperson at a pet [...]
Categories: Thoughts and Observations
Tagged: 4-hour workweek, puppy dog close, sales techniques, Timothy Ferriss
I enjoy statistics, and so I thought I would try putting some search terms into Google Insights to see if any interesting trends popped up. Keep in mind that Google Insights only has data from 2004 onwards.
You can check out Google Insights here:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
Dancing with the Stars:
I thought shows like Dancing with the Stars and [...]
Categories: Thoughts and Observations
I recently conducted a poll on my FaceBook to ask people which cities they think are the friendliest. These are the names that came up: Cuenca, Ecuador; Toronto; Vancouver, BC; Chicago; Manchester, England; and Texas. Of course Texas is a state and not a city, but I have heard that on a whole the people [...]
Categories: Thoughts and Observations
These days, there is a lot of talk about the web generation, or Google generation, and their lack of ability to focus on any one thing in particular for too long. In fact, I have read articles that say people who grew up this way have their brains wired differently than people who did [...]
Categories: Thoughts and Observations
Tagged: continuous partial attention span, efficiency, tasks management, time management