Elixsir

One of the hard components of having your own business is being able to accurately access a situation and project future maneuvers. Contingency prevention is important.

Everyone has moments in their lives when they shine. They have their moment in the spotlight. How long someone spends in the spotlight is directly dependent on the decisions they make.

Do I want every blog/site I visit tracked and published anywhere? No. Do I think sites I visit are necessarily worth “mentioning” on a blog/site? No. Am I so lazy that I won’t use something like StumbledUpon or Shared Items or Twitter things that interest me? No. Fred Wilson and I are obviously very different.

Everyone has an opinion and it is common for writers to express their opinions online. One common problem is when the writer allows their passion (emotion) about a topic to take precedence over their ability to think objectively.

People blog for different reasons. Some blog for the fun or as a hobby. Many blog with the intention to make money or monetize the blog/site. For those people, a blog can be a tool to reach the final destination, not the method of monetizing.

As I was carving out my articles for Tyme Said, I looked over the list of topics I picked out and I noticed something missing. The topics are valid topics that deserve to be written about, but what about the fun articles?

List entries are very popular. “Top 10 Ways to…” or “5 Reasons Why You Should…” type titles are recommended for submitting to different sites like Digg or Reddit because the title grabs the reader’s attention. That’s great, you have the reader’s attention and the person clicks on the link. Then what?

Companies wonder why their products or services aren’t selling as well as they could. Sometimes the reason why is due to making bad business decisions. Let’s look at a questionable one from Electronic Arts.