Simplenomics » Mike’s Point Of View

How Long Can You Focus?

Mike Sigers — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:41:22 +0000

How long can you read or listen to an audio, such as a podcast, before you lose focus?

I’ve been testing myself over the last couple of weeks, so I can use the knowledge in 2010, to maximize the opportunities I have to learn.

I’ve found that I can read for 2 minutes and lose focus and sometimes I can read for 20 minutes before I lose focus. It depends on the material.

I’ve found that I can listen for a maximum of 20 minutes before my mind wanders.

So it seems I need to “chunk” the material I invest my time in and be careful not to exceed those timeframe’s or I’ll chance missing something important.

That also gave me an idea for a membership site or two, because I’m sure I’m not alone in needing small chunks of focused, quality educational material.

If you create content for an educational course of some kind, you might want to survey your members and see if they want short, but more frequent bursts of content, rather than one large bite of blather that really doesn’t get thru their focus filters.

I’ll let you in on the sites I have in mind to build as soon as they’re done, but I’m not starting anything until after the New Year. This time of year’s too important to waste on work

Photo Credit

Did You Know Mike Sigers and Simplenomics Is On Twitter?

Mike Sigers — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:45:40 +0000

Most of you faithful readers already knew this, but some of you aren’t following me yet, so I thought I’d give you a few reasons why you should.

The benefits of following me on Twitter are …

I rarely Tweet the same things I blog about.
I Tweet way more often than I post here.
I find and share some pretty fascinating things.
Some of the things I retweet are rare, special and interesting.
I share some things I don’t really want everybody to know.
Motivational material is shared often, with actionable steps to help you actually use it.
Things related to sales and marketing are thrown about like candy at a parade.
And the ubiquitous much, much more.

So join me on Twitter today!

Help ! My Server Ate A Post …

Mike Sigers — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:41:57 +0000

EDIT: July 4th at 11:31 am my VERY GOOD friend Steve Marx, who wrote one of my favorite sales books of all time, Close Like The Pros, sent me a copy of the post that was still in his feed reader.

I’ll be reposting it in a few minutes.

Original Post Below:

We just moved all of our sites to a new server and it ate a few in the process.

My last post, about Joe Walsh, was a decent post and I loved it dearly.

It’s gone.

If you have a feed reader that captured the entire post, please copy-n-past and email it to me at mike at this domain name.

Thanks.

Teaching Sells Telewebcast Tonite !

Mike Sigers — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:31:37 +0000

There’s a telewebcast tonite at 8 PM EST / 5 PM PST for those of you who haven’t signed up yet for Teaching Sells. There’s a banner in the right hand sidebar if you need to access the free report.

According to Brian Clark, there’s only 34 spots left before they reach their limit and raise the price, so you need to go now and sign up before the increase.

If you wait for tonite’s telewebcast, you may be too late.

Click thru and Discover Why Teaching Sells !

The Top 100 Business Blogs

Mike Sigers — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:30:16 +0000

I just noticed, via Drew’s Marketing Minute, that Simplenomics.com is sitting at #37, as I write this, on the list of The Top 100 Business Blogs.

To be on that list, compiled by John Crickett, is an honor for me.

Now, how can you make that list work for you ?

How about reading those blogs for 2-3 weeks and seeing how many are still keeping your interest after that time ?

How about asking them to guest post for you and you for them ?

Expand your reach, expand your knowledge and expand you networking possibilities.

Thanks John, I appreciate your efforts.