HOW MANY HOURS DOES SOMEONE HAVE TO PUT IN TO BE A MASTER

This is going to short and sweet. In a fairly recent study of a 100 great lives lived; there was an essential key that made their success possible. Time! The amount of Time they spent, and put into their craft. 

How many hours does one need to put into their craft to be considered one of the greats? The studied concluded, 8 Thousand hours each person on the list had to put in to make this list!

That's right! Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Steve Jobs, Ray Lewis, Warren Buffett, Martha Stewart and on and on put no less than 8k hours into their craft! Basically, that will run each of them 200 weeks if they put in 8 hours per day. 

Most likely the time they put in was more like 225 weeks! I.E 4.3 years! Day in and out! 

Now That's Sweat Equity 

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THE 5 DUMBEST THINGS TO SAY TO YOUR BOSS

I've compiled a list of five of the dumbest things employees sometimes say.





1)"It's not my job"  This statement will be sure to promote lasting anger in either your manager or the owner/CEO. Make sure this never happens. I want you to keep your job.




2) "I'm not paid to do that"  This is another variation of the first statement. Look, we all have tasks to get done and objectives to accomplish. Let's put this statement out of our vocabulary.

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3) "I don't know how to do that, so find someone else." True as it may be... We need to always be at the top of our game. May I suggest this approach.."Can you teach me that?" A good manager won't turn you down plus you sound valuable by giving honor. 



4) "I need to leave work early."   There is nothing wrong with needing personally time. But, it's all in how you ask. A better approach would be, "Can I leave around 2:45pm today to pick up my kid?" Much better wording than "I need.."


5) "Give me a raise" Nothing wrong with wanting a raise here. Replace the sentence. "How may I earn more money here?" Much better approach. 



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5 Reasons Not To Trust YELP Reviews

For Years Yelp has long faced accusations that it manipulates its business-review ratings to sell advertising - 5 star reviews to paying advertisers. This is no big secret. Most all businesses that use YELP know that. But here is what is interesting. 

If BUYING Reviews is standard practice for YELP. IE: Let's say John owns a Pizza Shop and has one or two "1" star negative reviews  from his customers but John has Ten customers that give him 5 stars great reviews- Yelp will contact John and say something to the effect. "John if you pay and use our service for $200-$800 per month we will make sure that your customers will see your "Positive 5 star Reviews." There is another word for this. "Extortion"  

But The verdict from a federal appeals court: "There's nothing illegal about the way Yelp conducts their business model." 

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Yelp adamantly denies giving its paying clients more favorable reviews, but even if such allegations could be proved, said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Yelp is entitled to set a price for its ads - and the businesses reviewed have no legal right to a high rating. But at the same time don't have a legal right to a lesser review ranking either. And of course if an advertiser pays Yelp their ongoing monthly fee the Reviews will surely rank high.   

Robert C from Montebello CA wrote this about Yelp "Beware of Yelp! suppressing good reviews and depriving businesses from positive reviews being shown to the general public. The motive behind this practice is unknown, but it will be uncovered. It's a disservice to the  both the business who are victims of Yelp!'s practice and to consumers seeking honest real reviews from members of the public. I have had a good reviews of David Schonfeld taken off Yelp without reason...and so have others. The only bad review of Schonfeld is bogus." LINK

 Darren R. Lorain Ohio wrote   "A new business owner in my area owns a small business and he's really good at what he does. In result of his great work he has had about five or six 5 star reviews so far and Yelp won't post a few of them publicly for some reason. Yelp called him and said they won't show the reviews unless he upgrades to premium for $200/mo. Is this a scam and if not why won't Yelp post the reviews?" LINK

Henning K Charlotte NC wrote "Yelp is a business SCAM. They only post reviews when companies pay for it. I posted a positive and a negative review. I took about a half hour and wrote an honest and detailed review which was not posted. The company owner told me he was asked to pay for it to make it post. A scam. 

There is no way to contact Yelp except general info that lead away from the subject on yelp.com. Bottom line: Yelp is a big money making scam. If you want to have useful reviews, go somewhere else (like yellowpages.com for example.) LINK

There is even a entire FaceBook Titled "Yelp Is A Fraud" Here's the link. FACEBOOK

  

Here's another article on YELP's Standard operating procedure.

The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy.

"Hi, this is Mike from Yelp," the voice would say. "You've had three hundred visitors to your site this month. You've had a really good response. But you have a few bad ones at the top. I could do something about those."

This wasn't your average sales pitch. At least, not the kind that John, an East Bay restaurateur, was used to. He was familiar with Yelp.com, the popular San Francisco-based web site in which any person can write a review about nearly any business. John's restaurant has more than one hundred reviews, and averages a healthy 3.5-star rating. But when John asked Mike what he could do about his bad reviews, he recalls the sales rep responding: "We can move them. Well, for $299 a month." John couldn't believe what the guy was offering. It seemed wrong. READ MORE 

We could go on and on. But I'm sure by now you get the picture! Is Yelp a Scam? Ask the businesses that feel extorted by them.

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5 Things That Americans Consider Major Purchases

The average American will spend up to 11 hours researching something online before making a purchase; if they consider it a major purchase. 

Right now, (though this will change) before making a perceived major purchase the average American will look first to their desktop. Second, their tablet. Then third their smartphone, according to a Cardone study. In that order. 

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Before we start talking about Homes, Cars, Appliances, And Landscaping. We need to focus on a more important question.

What is considered a major purchase? It's very vague when you think about it, and subjective. 

But what is considered a "major purchase" Well according to a survey conducted by Mom's across the country the survey concluded that anything priced over $250 was considered a major purchase! That's right. Anything!  So, if you are a sales professional. And you sell products or services priced over $250 you need to understand that your average customer has been researching what you are offering for up to 11 hours! 



But maybe you're saying "Not my customers. They have more wealth than most." Great! But you need to know this, Even if we move up a tax bracket it doesn't matter a whole lot. Because another survey concluded that even if we move from $50k per year to $75k per year median income for your consumer they will perceive anything priced at $275 a major buying purchase worthy of up to 11 hours investigating online. 


My advice? If you have Services and products valued above $250, $300, $500 etc... Be sure you are flooding the web with reasons why they should buy from you over everyone else!  


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3 Reasons Why Realtors Are Failing In A Booming Market!

Your budget isn't the problem, your income is. If you've given up on it by playing games with budgets then you're going to go broke. If you want to stay in the middle class you need to keep watching the news, following the politicians and depending on the president to fix your money.

     

Here are a list of reasons why many Real Estate Agents are failing in a booming market. 

1) The Home "Sells itself philosophy" (No! People sell things to people period.       Buildings, Houses, Condos, Apartments etc.. Don't sell anything)  It's up to

    the realtor to do that! Besides it's lazy to hold to that philosophy!

2) The photography many realtors use is awful. 97% of the interest in a home comes through the marketing on sites like Zillow, MLS, Realtor.com etc... 

Since this is the case why do 95% of the pictures look so terrible? I mean Bad lighting, zero editing, computer CGI type nonsense! It's no wonder that Professional Photos generate 15x the amount of traffic!   

3)Showing is not closing! Taking people on a tour of a home is one thing. Closing them is another. Close, Close, Close! Make them put an offer on the table now! It doesn't really matter if their offer is correct or not. Why? Because you can tell them the right offer to put in... And, you know what that correct offer is as their agent. Tell them that they need to act immediately!  

Hulu Is Finally Offering An Ad-Free Version!!

Hulu is launching an ad-free version of its streaming service, charging customers an extra $4 a month for the privilege of not having to sit through ads.

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The company said today that its “No Commercials” plan will cost about $12 a month, compared with about $8 for the regular “Limited Commercials” version.

As someone who has watched all three seasons of Nashville on Hulu in the past month and a half — and yes, the episodes are an hour long — the option comes as a welcome relief. One episode would typically contain around 10 to 15 ads, and while Hulu Plus sought to tailor commercials to users and deemed the number of ads as “modest,” it tended to show the same ad multiple times in one episode, including commercials for its own service.