Category: Business

Mindset

You can develop your mindset by focusing on effort, creating challenges and by applying a sequence of four simple effective steps.

Step1. Learn to hear your fixed mindset “voice.”

Step 2. Recognize that you have a choice.

Step 3. Talk back to it with a growth mindset voice.

Step 4. Take the growth mindset action.

At the best of times I struggle to focused on any single task. Take right now for instance. I’m supposed to be listening to a presentation but instead I noticed an unpublished blog post so now my mind wondered to completing this post on the topic of mindset.

SO BANG! Here I am thinking about Mindset – the new psychology of success – the notion of a fixed versus a growth mindset and how to get into one.

In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success—without effort. They’re wrong.

In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have had these qualities.

My focus now and into the future is how to apply the growth mindset into everything I do..

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not a model

Not the model, models are great to look at in ad’s plastered across the web. You know the ones, the no smile, awkward pose, such as the below ad for Tree-house.

It was quite obvious the model / owner is not a happy subject in front of a camera but I’ve clicked and checked out their services.  So discount Photo-shoot or not, the banner worked, but the destination content was a bit disappointing.

I don’t want to know how much it costs from the get go..An issue with many sites… “Thanks for coming it costs..X per month for our services”.

Tell me how great Tree-house is at teaching me to build apps, how quickly I can make millions and how successful they’ve been with other code deficient punters just like me. Perhaps they need to consider moving the pricing to a separate page and bring the benefits forward, while making them a little more relevant. It’s what I see after I click that’s crucial to sell is to tell in my language. How many languages can you speak?

I’m really happy to be here holding my iphones

 

The online, instore, mobile shopping experience

the Sunday shopping experience can be interesting. Bricks and Mortar shops are staffed with hung-over shop assistants pretending to want to help you spend your hard-earned cash, the reality is that they just want to make it through their shift..

Online store however, while not staff physically, face the challenge of being stocked the latest and greatest crap gadget straight out of Guangzhou China and again they really wants you to again spend your hard earned cash but are not there to really help you. One store looks like another and sometimes, if you are lucky you get to talk to a live help support person who may or may not be hung-over.

Like BAM, online is all about the experience. From end -to-end be it the landing strip (homepage) when you enter the store or as Paco Underhill puts it “giving good aisle” – from categroy to category – through to purchase. Online and in-store are all about the experience to take a browser and make them a buyer. Building a unique, easy-to use experience can be a challenge, especially when some client can’t see buying prescription drugs online the value in investing to enhance the online experience. More often than not, it costs less to build an online store than it does to re-fit a shop and it definitely costs less to run.

With so many online shop fronts emerging it’s important to ensure you don’t taint the experience with a hungover digital sales assistant.

  1. Make transactions easy, secure data and stay in touch.
  2. When customers return, reward them and when they have been away for a while invite them back and if your store is an extension of your BAM outlets make sure it’s working efficiently and without a hangover.
  3. It should be engaging, relevant, fun and forward-worthy…It’s easy to talk to a huge audience about an online shopping experience, so why not invest a bit to make sure it meets their requirements.
  4. Do some research, put a quick poll on you site, ask a few people to complete a questionnaire and set yourself up on twitter so you can monitor the feedback. It never ceases to amaze me how many valuable insights are out there in the cloud.
  5. It’s an exciting time right now and many digital and BAM retailers alike will disappear as quickly as they have arrived. If they don’t keep up their cusomter will get bored and move on faster than your can say check-out….

I recently visited a great store..It may not work on mobile but it is one hell of an experience and an even better brand extension..>Well done Reactive, I may be late is giving you praise but as they say…BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!

AMAZING USE OF FLASH

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What an Amazing Flash Store!!

Crumpler -https://www.crumpler.com.au/flash/flash.aspx#/english/products.html

I will load more stores on this blog over the coming weeks so stay tuned…

So this Eyetribe is what's been keeping you???

So I guess you (all my wonderful readers (I don’t think there are actually any) have been wondering what I’ve been up to this past couple of months.

Building a kick-arse website for a new client / friend under my new business name and using previously untested (by me) technology.  The site is www.eyetribe.com.au cialis online buy and we’ have taken it it from basic flash branding to content upgradeable, ecommerce capable well designed little pocket rocket…

The brief was pretty simple, we want to sell on line, manage our own orders and content and look good. The business is a collective of two childrens sungalsses brands, Squids and Frankie Ray. Each with their own unique personality.  Frankie Ray is the Stylish kid on the street, as comfortable in Paris as New York or Melbourne and Squids is the active sporty kid that like to look good while they are splashing in the pool or powering down the slopes.

We online pharmacy without a prescription have just launched, go take a look, buy somthing

Kids just love what they see here.
Kids just love what they see here.

Black, Grey and White

I registered my business name a month ago and have been working feverishly (well sort of) ever since.

Like most people, I love the notion of being my own boss, but also, like most I have not really been sure where to start or even, how to position myself.

So with this as my starting point I have been following my own business coaching advice and have come up with the three pillars to You’ve Changed – A movement in human potential.

The Shades (Colours) whatever you want to call them are Black, White and Grey.

Black and White

The decision to affect change in you life is clear cut, it’s black and white. The black represents the parts of your like you are not satisfied with or feel uncomfortable about and wish to move beyond, while the white is the area you wish to enter, effectively a white light zone, or space of free unfettered and satisfying existence. Fulfilled most days and striving to achieve what you deserve while knowing you are inherently supported by not only your conviction but also by a group of like-mined changed individuals. Stepping out of a black space, or addressing the black parts of our existence and shedding light on them can take time which leads us to the Grey area, a space through which you will find the support of and entity (an the people within it) like You’ve changed to be motivational, inspirational and hopefully invaluable on your journey.

(It sounds corny and forgive me and hear me out as like-you, I to can be cynical)

Grey – Uncertainty

Most of us don’t know where to start and this is the best place to be for it’s here you begin making decisions about your life, where you want it to be, interests, passions, why and you define how much you want it? It’s where you accept / address the parts of your life you may not love but know they provide the vehicle through which you can obtain a supportive and white-light existence.

We use thorough testing, questioning and analysis, to help unearth your potential, realise some dreams and shed parts of your life that bind you to an unfulfilled existence, it is here you will find you white light, a pure, unfettered, satisfying space.

White

Where you want to be, where you should be, the life where you live and do exactly what it is you’ve always dreamed of but never believed you could make it…So here it is, in all it’s pristine glory a beautiful reflection of the moon….A nothing pervading everything you do, making you feel act and be c as complete as the universe you are part of and removed from…

So, change is constant, there are no limitations and the only thing you have to do is fade from black to grey into white..Welcome to your new beginning…