Imagine if you had a bucket of water. And every time you attempted to fill the bucket, 90% of the water would leak out instantly. Every time, all you’d retain was a measly 10%. How many times would you keep filling the bucket? The answer is simple: just once. The first time you noticed the [...]
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Let’s do something really, really stupid. Let’s avoid increasing your prices. Let’s actually decrease them. By a whole 50%. So instead of earning $50 per hour, you actually start earning a measly $25.Then just for good measure, let’s reduce your prices by another 50% to $12.50 an hour. And now let’s do some calculations, shall [...]
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You see that house on the hill? What’s the price of that house? The owner thinks the price should hover around $550,000. The real estate agent thinks she’ll get $575,000 or more if you go to auction. The council sincerely believes the property is worth $495,000. The bidding fails to rise about $528,000. But then [...]
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Are you worried you’ll get more unsubscribes if you send a newsletter fornightly instead of monthly? Do you think your ad has too much copy and customers won’t read it? Do you think your presentation is too salesy? The answer depends on your auditing ability So how much is 5 + 5? Well, the answer [...]
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If you’ve been wondering whether or not to purchase the Brain Audit then here’s the perfect moment. And it’s perfect because you get the Brain Audit Version 3.2 just launched in June 2009. Two years in the making… This book has been two years in the making, and now it’s finally out! And you not [...]
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Imagine you’re driving down the road to fill some petrol. As you get to the petrol station, you see the headlines on the newspaper, letting you know that petrol prices are likely to go up by 20 cents. What do you do? Fill just $10 worth of petrol in your tank? Or $20? Or do [...]
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Imagine you own a toy-truck company. And on your toy-truck website you sell red trucks. And blue trucks. And green trucks. And yellow trucks. And mauvish-orange trucks (ok, so I’m running out of primary colours) Which means you’ve pretty much got a Products Page with loads of trucks. So logically, or so you think, the [...]
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Let’s imagine you and I are meeting in Donostia-San Sebastián in the north of Spain for dinner. And we’re going to have dinner in the old town. What are we going to have for dinner? I know. We’ll have some beer, los pintxos, some icecream, and a cafe cortado. And guess what? We’ll get the [...]
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The ‘Yes and Yes Factor’ is supposed to work. Yet somehow, it seems to fail. In this issue, learn ‘Why The ‘Yes and Yes’ Factor Fails (And How To Fix It)’ Coffee. Coffee and chocolate brownie. Which option puts a bigger smile on your face? No, don’t tell me… In random tests done over 5 [...]
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Three year old Kara was throwing a tantrum. She didn’t want to go to bed, of that she was certain. “Do you want to brush with the red or blue toothpaste?” her dad asked gently. “Blue,” she says, glad to be given the opportunity to make a decision. Ten minutes later, Kara was well tucked [...]
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You may not realise it, but your articles are creating a ‘huh’ factor. A ‘huh’ factor is like a speed bump on a road. If you don’t remove that speed bump, it causes the reader to bounce over your words. If you have too many of these speed bumps, it frustrates the reader. And they [...]
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