Razer Gaming Phone

Is Razer’s new phone worth buying?

Razer. The company founded in 2005 is greatly known for making gaming products such as computers, keyboards, and mice. Ever since Razer bought NextBit, a small company who made phones such as the Robin, people have been wondering what they’d do with it, until now.

The all-new Razer phone seems to be build specifically for mobile gaming, watching a movie and TV shows and entertainment such as those. It is packed with tons of media delivery goodies such as 8 GB RAM, high 120Hz refresh rate, 12 MP dual primary cameras, 4000 mAh, and two amazing front speakers. The design is slightly heavy but has great functionality and layout.
Obviously, these specs seem really nice for a phone, especially for Razer’s first phone. But there are some problems in contrast. Problems! There are always problems!

Like the iPhone, there is no headphone jack, rather an adapter connecting to the phone’s dongle jack input. Following that, the phone does not support Bluetooth 5, which is a huge problem for some users. Most modern phones today have a water and dust resistance to its body, but the Razer phone sadly does not. The phone is ran and powered by Android but does not have the new Android 8.0 Oreo quite yet. But thinking past all those, I’d say the biggest problem for most users, is that the Razer phone is not compatible with Sprint or Verizon.

Overall, Razer’s first phone is OK in some parts.. Though I’d only recommend the phone for people who play mobile games a lot and love watching entertainment. But for work and socializing is your priority, this is most definitely not a very good phone for you.

Razer Gaming Phone2017-11-20T22:52:09+00:00

Twitter Success Stories

Top Twitter Success Stories

As of January 2017 there are 500 million tweets posted each day. There are approximately 7.4 billion people on the planet.  The number of tweets per day is only going to rise as people become Internet connected and learn of Twitters quick and easy chat and picture capacity.  The creative uses and power of this type of networking help facilitate some inspiring success stories. Here are just a few top examples of unbelievable twitter success events connecting people and opportunity;

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No. 1
Elrubius, a famous gaming YouTuber announced a contest on his YouTube channel in August of 2016. He listed a bunch of gaming give-aways and promised their disbursement as rewards for generating the largest number of re-tweets ever.  His fan base went crazy and accomplished his goal earning Elrubius the largest retweet of “Limonada” for 2016.  Why limonada?  Because at the end of his gaming give away line up he included 4,000 lemons.

 

 

 

 

 

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No. 2
Carter Wilkerson, a man hungry for “nuggs”.  While ordering chicken nuggets at Wendy’s he tweets the company, “how many retweets for a year of free chicken nuggets?” Wendy’s chicken nugget reply’s with “18 Million”.  He responds, “Consider it done” and tweets out “Help me please. A man needs his nuggs” earning him over 3.4 million retweets by May of 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

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No. 3
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, made his first official Tweet on March 2006 and made history, “just setting up my twttr”.  Profound, no.  Historical, yes.  Twitter.  Essentially a really cool public texting chat board with pics.  Fast forward ten years and one billion tweets are being posted each week.  You’ve come a long way Jack.

 

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No. 4
Stephanie Sullivan accepted what just might be the very first marriage proposal from Greg Rewis via Twitter in 2008. Judging from Stephanie’s current last name, this is still a huge success story!

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No. 5
Venture Capital Score.  Stacey Ferreira responded to a tweet invitation from Richard Branson to donate $2,000 for his charity to gain access to a meet and great at an event he was hosting.  Stacey and her brother paid the donation, met with Branson and scored $1 million in VC to get their start up, mysocialcloud, off the ground. Three years later they sold their start up to Reputation for an undisclosed amount.

Do you have a Twitter success story?  Share it with #TwitterSuccessStory or share a full description with us – we’d love to hear it!

Twitter Success Stories2017-09-21T21:04:14+00:00

Top 3 Business Owner Time Management Tools of All Time

Proven Business Goal Management Tool

Every business owner has the constant daily challenge of staying on task, completion and prioritizing.  Here are three practices that will improve these must have skills.

#1 Long Term Vision

This first step is critical as it impacts whether you will ever see your goals come to fruition. If you have clear long term vision all of your hard work will retain it’s value and you won’t get burned out.  If you do not have a clear vision and a clear exit strategy then every detail of what you are doing will suffer. You may ask, “exit strategy”?  Aren’t I in business for the long haul? Maybe, but regardless of how long you want to be at the helm of your business, every smart business owner has an exit strategy. Your exit strategy could be to apprentice your children into taking it over.  It may be to build it up and sell it for retirement.  It could be to structure it to place people over it. Whatever you choose as an exit strategy, the point is to choose one and plan ahead for it.  If you are aimlessly working endlessly with no clear goals in site you will find yourself becoming listless and with less growth then expected with no clear options available.

Personal Brainstorm Session

After being reminded of the incredible importance of have a clear long term vision for your business – now it’s time for some fun.  Kick back, get comfortable, cuddle up to a nice cup of Jo and dream.  Dream about how your business would look 10 years down the road if everything goes well.  Dream about elements that really spark your passion.  If you were able to mold and shape it into dreams what would it look like?

Sketch out a personal brainstorm.  Take a large notebook and draw images, words, ideas, concepts, thoughts.  Don’t worry about structure or what it looks like.  Begin to see patterns and make associations with these thoughts.  Add some details and make some relational network connections.  A big, long term picture will begin to take form before your eyes as you highlight important elements and label areas. Be sure to mix in the elements that you are truly passionate about. What accomplishments through your business would really make you satisfied? Write those down on your brainstorm sheet.

When this personal brainstorm dream session is all done you should have a much clearer idea of where you want the ship to be steered toward. There will be technical elements and details that aren’t filled in but that’s OK.  As long as the long term picture is clear, the fuzzy details will be worked out by your team.

Now you have something to work with.

#2 Goal to Grain Roadmap

After your Personal Brainstorm Dream Session is complete you need to prioritize and start to map out a technique for obtaining these high and lofty dreams of yours. First, write down three income segments; your Cash Cow, your Nice to Increase and your Investment Department. Let’s break this down;

Cash Cow – this is where your company currently makes most of it’s income.  This is critical for keeping your business running.  You can’t neglect this segment for the sake of running after your dreams.  This segment should not be neglected but improve.  Your companies Cash Cow may be a product or service that frankly bores you because you provide or perform this so much. But this segment, if conducted well, can become the financier for your long term goals.  You can leverage the income that flows in from this business segment to fuel your dreams.  Improve this segment and over time this will be the result.

Nice to Increase – this segment consists of products or services that you don’t get much business from but has potential.  You haven’t focused primary attention on this segment before but you have a hunch this could open up a second cash cow for you.  This is worth pursuing.  It could become profitable.  It’s always wise to have more then one cash cow segment in any business.  If one cash cow dies due to a market shift then you have a backup and you won’t go out of business.  In addition, this becomes more income to fuel your long term goals.

Investment Department – this is where Visions Become Reality!  As you leverage your profit from your cash cow segments you will be able to invest in your long term goals.  Every new shift in your product or service offering typically takes an initial investment of time and money to launch.  This is what this department is for.  Planning out phases for this launch plan is wise. Even if you don’t have the funds available right now, if you plan phases and next steps when the funds become available they won’t get wasted but will be invested.

The Goal to Grain Roadmap
This road map starts with the end goal.  It then moves back progressively in time until it reaches your current day.   For example, set the end date to ten years from today.  Write down the key elements of your business goals and objectives.  Then move back to only five years from today.  What elements would need to be in place at that point in time in order to achieve the ten year goals?  Write those down.  Move it back 2 years.  What goals would have to be accomplished in three years from now in order to obtain the five year goals?  Write those down.  Progressively as you get closer to your current time more details need to be filled in. Once you have this road map outlined you will be enabled to start putting the pieces closest to you together.  This is when you need to start building your team, delegating sections, seeking out vendors to fill in the blanks and find good advice on how best to accomplish your next steps.

The Goal to Grain Roadmap is how we approach all of our Clients and all of the services we offer.  If you would like help putting one together for your company contact us.

#3 Strategic Scheduling

Now we get into the details of how to accomplish the goals you have mapped out.  Every business owner struggles with balancing their schedule. Now that you have a clear target it will become easier to schedule your time.  Consider your typical work week. Plan that the majority of your time will go to running your business and keeping your Cash Cows happy. This should become about 80% of your time instead of 100%.  Now 10% should include working on increasing your secondary cash cow.  The final 10% of your time needs to allocated to your new Investment Department.  This can equate into your own labor time, R&D time, meeting time with consultants and so on. Decide on your weekly calendar what time block you are going to use for this important investment on obtaining your goals. If you work a 50 hour work week for example, then block out 5 hours during the slowest part of your week for this slot.  Make sure everyone knows your are unavailable for regular business during that time.  Each week, write out the next step that needs to be accomplished for your new Investment Department.  That can look like a meeting, time researching online, working on a business or marketing plan or actually building the new product or service.

This will shift your fogging thoughts and dreams into sizable obtainable pieces.  You will have a new comfort knowing that your business is not suffering because you are trying to take on too much. Your regular business will improve because it has a new purpose that it plays into.  And, best of all, each week you will be working toward your dreams. A fresh, energetic passion will remind you why you are an Entrepreneur!

These techniques are proven.  They really do work and we would love to help you – call us to get started!  We specialize in goal identification, long term strategy and creating realistic paths to get there.

Top 3 Business Owner Time Management Tools of All Time2017-09-21T21:04:17+00:00
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