Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Quick note about my earlier post. It’s fair to read the comments if you follow two rules.
1. Read the comments that are helpful. Skip the ignorant ones.
2. Do not read the comments on your own work unless you can handle being intentionally torn down.
I’ve had it with all the different cup size names (e.g., trenti, kid, venti, grande, sixteen, large, extra-large, power, original, regular).
Here’s a quick solution: Let people pick out their cup as they get in line.*
Sometimes being creative is a set-back. It’s fun to make different names for sizes (whether they make sense or not), but not everyone can keep up. If you had the option to appeal to all customers and lose some or appeal to all customers and keep all, it’s clear which is the better choice.
Yet, in an effort to stand out, businesses sacrifice some customers that, if time would be taken, could otherwise be kept. Note, the best kind of creativity is the uncomplicated kind.
Stay Positive & Have Fun But Keep It Simple
Garth E. Beyer
*The take-it-too-far part of me would insist that you could give customers markers to color their cups while they wait in line. Have them write their own name on it too. Starbucks never spells it right anyway. (But they do when I say Voldemort. -sigh-) And yes, there will be a line at a place where you don’t have to figure out what cup size to order, ending up feeling like an idiot when you order it wrong.
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There’s beauty in spending an extra two minutes to make a connection. There’s beauty in ignoring your watch and making someone’s day. There’s beauty to extending a deadline to double-check your work.
Equally, there’s beauty in cutting time.
To do the painstakingly hard work of caring more than anyone else – about your work and about those closest to you. Sometimes they conflict and that’s okay so long as you’re doing one of them.
Stay Positive & Do The Hard Work
Garth E. Beyer
The web is like a shortcut, a way to streamline any process, a method of simplifying the complex, leaving the hard work still needing to be done.
Anyone can now do anything with the web. I can collect programmers to mimic nearly any site available which makes that site less valuable. It’s a crumbling collection of incredible infrastructure and design.
If a blog, a website, an online service is all that you have to offer, there’s a very low life expectancy for you.
Remember that the hard work can’t be accomplished online. You can get by for a time, but with how swift laypeople are at creating online content, it won’t be long until someone mimics your original idea and adds their human, offline, personal touch to it.
Stay Positive & The Web Gives You Freedom, But There’s Still Competition
Garth E. Beyer
They are everywhere waiting for you to connect with them, give them a rubik’s cube they want (and can) figure out, and a reward for completing it.
Go start, anywhere, with anyone. Connect. Challenge. Reward.
Stay Positive & Note: Reward Is Not The Most Important
Garth E. Beyer
