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Re: Battle for Zendikar Pauper Cube Update

Chris Conrey — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 17:23:27 -0000

I'm assuming the blank CL spots in the change log are the 5 new spell lands?

Re: T1 Gaming Supplies to sponsor David Leavitt's Twitch.tv channel

Chris Conrey — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:24:58 -0000

The circuit board playmat is so sweet and the dice are hot. Congrats on the sponsorship

Re: 13 Books That Have Changed The Way I Do Business (Enter To Win Them All)

Chris Conrey — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:02:41 -0000

Great list and about half of those I've read already. Drive and To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink are two others that I recommend to anyone who will listen.

Re: How do you measure where your time goes?

Chris Conrey — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:09:14 -0000

I do pay for the premium features. And the sunday roundup email goes into my weekly review and planning for the coming week.

Re: How do you measure where your time goes?

Chris Conrey — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:32:34 -0000

Bart - one of the things I do to measure my time beyond just the calendar (which starts as a guidepost but my ability to stick to it varies with the day) is use RescueTime on my computer. It tracks what apps, websites, and things are on my screen and for how long. Highly recommend as a data point.

Re: Humans, Still, Buy from Humans

Chris Conrey — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:27:45 -0000

Thanks! Glad to share!

Re: Humans, Still, Buy from Humans

Chris Conrey — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:31:49 -0000

Love it. This ties into what I've been preaching/teaching with http://postmodernsales.com/... for 4 years now. Sales as people think of it when they hear that word is dead - the slicked back used car salesman stereotype isn't going to work for much longer and those who don't change with us will be left behind.

Re: NowDoThis: A Dead Simple To-Do List to Help You Focus

Chris Conrey — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:11:20 -0000

So I'll test this, but the bigger issue with single focus task lists are that there may be a task you put in your list that you don't have full control over and therefore you can't complete on your own. If that's your item, you now have to go in and edit your list to do something else via it.

Re: Dinner At My House (How I Hosted 138 Dinners in a Year)

Chris Conrey — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:30:09 -0000

best line in a blog post this week:
"Friends I've poisoned: 1"

Re: 6 A/B Tests That Did Absolutely Nothing for Us

Chris Conrey — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:09:21 -0000

I think the awesome lesson here (and thank you for sharing it) is that it all comes back to what your actual customers react to - not what the studies say, or the case studies from someone else.

Re: What do you really need from CRM anyway?

Chris Conrey — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:59:20 -0000

I've written and podcasted about this. The only things you need from your CRM are:
_1 Who am I talking to?
_2 What have I talked to them about?
_3 What is the next action and when should I do it?

Everything else is gravy. I've even tried to build my own CRM to do this and even that grows beyond those three questions if not careful

Re: Chris Johnson : Instigator | Hustler: Current productivity tools

Chris Conrey — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:00:12 -0000

look into Xero instead of quickbooks - it's my recommended option for bookkeeping

Re: How Contempt Breeds Business Cancer (& 5 Ways to Kill It)

Chris Conrey — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:49:40 -0000

"The Customer is always Right" - This may be the single most misunderstood line in all of business, in this case Shervin nailed it, the "right"ness is in their mind, and nothing we as businesspeople can do will ever change that.

When one of us lets the customer have it and let it fester, we all lose. Well said.

Re: 15 Reasons Why Analytics Prediction Will Make You a Better Marketer

Chris Conrey — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:25:29 -0000

CJ - That is one of the main uses of Levers, to do the forecasting via software instead of having to manually build up the models yourself. Feel free to check it out at http://leve.rs

Re: GOOGLE FIBER is coming to the Valley

Chris Conrey — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:32:40 -0000

It'd be nice if this read "potentially" or "possibly" instead of implying that it's a done deal.

Re: My Shelf for January 2014

Chris Conrey — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 01:17:08 -0000

Aye. They are on my shelf or in my kindle waiting to be read/listened to. From now on the acquired list will be much smaller - the Xmas gifts always do this to me.

Re: Driven by Fear

Chris Conrey — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:34:34 -0000

yeah still mucking with the settings now that I have things up and running again - I'll be fixing that shortly.

Re: Swept Away By The Boulder Flood Motorcycle Video

Chris Conrey — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:20:17 -0000

So yeah... not going to lie - this guy is a darwin award winner waiting to happen. Yeah the footage is amazing, but only gained by doing something incredibly stupid. He should never have been in that situation.

Re: I need your help. Can I borrow a book?

Chris Conrey — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 02:34:27 -0000

It seems everyone is doing this lately. I just posted in your FB thread with my three favorites from this year.

Re: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

Chris Conrey — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:11:18 -0000

My wife had me read that one as well this year, definitely my favorite fiction book I read this year. Just enough reality to hook you in.

Re: Setting up a lab-notebook for a scientific-method approach to marketing

Chris Conrey — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 01:39:02 -0000

One of the interesting things is that you can (and likely will) be running multiple experiments at once, sorting out the cause/effect relationships may be an interesting challenge depending on how fast you are going to go with it. Taking the data offline into a notebook may help with keeping track of what and where. Are you planning on correlating the data with annotations in Google Analytics or whatever tool your using as a digital archive/tool for the rest of the team or future team members?

Also - I think your structure makes sense, I'd make a page for background research and hypothesis, the write out the method and measure results. facing pages (handwriting size affects this obviously - but I'm a visual person this way). Clear delineation upfront of what you're going to use as your measure is key.

Re: Escape from LinkedIn

Chris Conrey — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:22:35 -0000

When you sell ads based on CPM, DAUs are a goal worth chasing. Twitter/Facebook/Instagram is/will have the same problem as more ads pop in

Re: Escape from LinkedIn

Chris Conrey — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:13:06 -0000

Bart - I also feel like I can't quit for the same reasons. I used to find TONS of value in LI, both in conversations in the groups (before they allowed you to pipe an RSS feed in and spam everyone in the group) and in meeting people. It still can be a good research tool, but the noise is far far too loud there to be much more than that.

Re: How to Message Anyone on LinkedIn

Chris Conrey — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:22:57 -0000

As pointed out on growthhackers.com this is only partially true -
_1 Each time a user joins an LI group they can choose to allow members to message them or not (by default it is on)
_2 Users can hide groups from their profile.

So yes in the general case this will work, but it's not foolproof.

Re: YouTube cofounder’s first public comment in 8 years: ‘why the f*** do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?’

Chris Conrey — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 12:25:35 -0000

Who reads comments on YouTube?