Jeff Sandquist and I were talking the other day.
He told me about his 7 Day rule.
Every so often, people say stuff that just makes sense, and this is an idea that I plan to implement. The part of the idea that I liked so much was the recognition that clogging your computer with stuff you don't use is just stupid and argues for future problems.
We have learned some funny things in the ActiveWords odyssey. We have learned that something like 40% of the people who buy are product do so in the first 7 days after they download, then 20% buy over the next part of the trial, and the final 40% buy during the last week of the trial.
I recognize that this is hardly a statistical sample, and would be curious as anyone else's experience, as we are always looking to do things better and smarter.
The CIA had an opening for an assassin. After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists - two men and one woman. For the final test, the CIA agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun.
"We must know that you will follow your instructions, no matter what the circumstances. Inside this room you will find your wife sitting in a chair. You have to kill her." The first man said. "You cant be serious. I could never shoot my wife!"The agent replies, "Then you?re not the right man for this job."
The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. Then the agent came out with tears in his eyes. "I tried, but I cant kill my wife." The agent replies, "You dont have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."
Finally, it was the womans turn. Only she was told to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one shot after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman. She wiped the sweat from her brow and said, "You guys didnt tell me the gun was loaded with blanks. So I had to beat him to death with the chair."
Posted by: Jokes | October 09, 2004 at 06:45 AM