Failure is Obsolete: The Ultimate Strategy to Create Recurring Success in Your Business and Your Life - Softcover

Rabhan, Benji

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614485070 ISBN 13: 9781614485070

Verlag: Morgan James Publishing, 2013

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What would you do differently if you could predict success or failure on a reliable basis? Would you take action on your ideas faster? Would you feel more confident?
""Failure is Obsolete"" is a recipe for a new kind of experimentation. It's a strategy to help you make better, more successful decisions in your business and your life by testing high-risk decisions in a low-risk environment. With the right parameters in place, you can predict the eventual success or failure of almost any decision you need to make.
This is not just another take on business success. Its a whole new perspective on how you can move forward confidently in every aspect of life. It could completely change the way you think and make decisions everyday.

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Through speaking, training, and consulting, Benji Rabhan helps large and small businesses improve their online presence and make more money with their websites. Ever since he built his first ecommerce website at the age of 13, he has been driven to consistently improve results for his clients. As a recipient of the Empact100 List of Top American Entrepreneurs, he now consults with multi-million-dollar companies helping them maintain sustainable growth despite a challenging economic environment. Find out more at www.BenjiRabhan.com

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Failure is Obsolete

The Ultimate Strategy to Create Recurring Success in Your Business and Your Life

By Benji Rabhan

Morgan James Publishing

Copyright © 2013 Benji Rabhan
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-61448-507-0

Contents

1. FAILURE IS WHAT?, 
2. WHAT IS TEST BEFORE YOU TEST?, 
3. BUSINESS, 
4. CONVERSION RATE OPTIMIZATION (CRO), 
5. LIFE, 
6. CONCLUSION, 

CHAPTER 1

FAILURE IS WHAT?

What is this all about? Can you really predict success on a reliable basis?

When I was young, everything was an experiment. I was always exploring things; taking them apart; figuring out how they worked - and how they could work for me.

How does the phone work?

Why does it plug into the wall?

Where do the wires go?

How does my voice travel over those wires?

How can I get a phone in MY room?

These were questions I was asking when I was six. Why did my older sister have a phone in her room when I did not? This was supremely unfair in my six-year-old mind! So, I set out to do something about it — using experimentation. Here's what happened.

It was one of those '90s era phones with a transparent case so you could see all the colored wires and inside workings. She was so proud of it, so naturally I took an interest in it, too. I saw the blue, red, green, and yellow wires and figured out that's what phone wiring was all about.

One day I opened up the phone jack that Lindsey's phone was plugged into. (Yes, I took apart the wall socket.) Inside the jack, I saw the same colored wires, and figured out that was how the phone connected to the outside world. Through these colored wires. Cool! Then I put the wall plate back on and nobody was the wiser.

When I got back to my room, I opened up a flat plate on my wall to see what was inside that one. The same four colored wires all tangled up and shoved back into the wall. Hmm. Interesting.

Through my process of logic and testing, I figured out that I could literally unhook my sister's phone from the wall, rewire the jack, and make it work in my room. And that's what I did. I stole my sister's phone and hooked it up in my room. (Now, the reason I was in that room was because it was little more than a closet. No phone jack, no TV hook-up, nothing. But I was six. My parents figured I didn't need more than that, and they were right. Little did they know, I had other ideas.)

Well, you can imagine what happened that evening. My sister came home and was so angry because I had stolen her phone. My parents were completely confused because they didn't think I had a phone jack in my room.

Where had it come from? They never figured out that I had reached into the wall and rewired my bedroom. And I never told them. Well, not until much later. It's a funny story now, but they wouldn't have been amused when I was six.

The point is I wanted to know everything about everything. So I was always testing things. Experimenting. Reverse-engineering. Testing was my way of exploring the unknown cautiously, a little bit at a time. I could make small leaps of logic, test the effect, and then move forward accordingly.

If I tested connecting the phone wires and they didn't work, then I wouldn't do that again. I'd do something different. Maybe I'd connect them in a different order. Maybe I'd give up on the idea entirely and go take the blender apart.

If I tested my parents' reaction to my "acquiring" my sister's phone and I got away with it, well, what else could I get away with acquiring? The family computer? Maybe.

I had no fear of the consequences because I was making little tests. And, because they were little, I could reverse course quickly before any major damage was done. Also, because they were little, I could make forward progress really fast. Very important in life, as well as in the business world.

This was just how I learned — test, assess, make corrections, test again, correct again. Tiny course corrections meant I ultimately stayed on course to a (usually) successful completion of my goal or task. I didn't want help. I didn't want someone else to tell me his answer. I wanted to figure it out on my own.

I wasn't interested in theories and guesswork and going around an idea the long way. I wanted to know the answer, the real answer, as quickly as possible so I could move on to the next cool thing.

That state of mind made school really difficult. It wasn't that I was "lazy" or couldn't focus for long periods of time … wait, no, it was that I couldn't focus for long periods of time. But that wasn't a bad thing. It was just that I saw so many amazing things in the world, and I wanted to experience all of them. Right Now.

My teachers used to complain that I wasn't "with the class," and they were right. I was far away, in another galaxy — where things moved at my pace.

So what does this have to do with you?

Everything! Because the whole world is becoming completely distractible — like everyone has contracted Attention Deficit Disorder ( ADD). It's being forced on us from all sides. Our attention span is about as awesome as a gnat. And it's not our fault.

It's all about speed and volume. It's about how much information you can absorb, and how fast you can absorb it and react to it. Have you watched any TV news channel recently? You're listening to multiple people argue about an issue, while simultaneously watching streaming headlines above and below them. Oh, and we'll throw in a ticking bar with comments on the side. (You know, just in case you get bored.) Oh, and while you're watching, you might also have a laptop or iPad open and a phone to your ear.

Each stream of information ticking by faster than our parents could read. Each stream fighting for our attention. This style of information delivery is all around us. Even when we try to slow down and watch a simple 30-minute sitcom, camera angles change every 5 seconds. And advertising bombards our senses all day, every day, even in our sleep. (Be honest, do you sleep with your cell phone next to your bed?)

— Education is becoming self-guided. (Thank goodness!)

— Technology is developing at mind-bending speed.

— Twitter and texting have reduced our conversations down to 140 abbreviated characters.

— And there's no such thing as a lifetime career anymore. People are expected to switch their line of work an average of seven times.

Whether you like it or not information overload is part of daily life. You can either let it drag you down or you can get excited.

This book is all about my strategy for experimenting.

Have you ever heard the saying, "If you must fail, do it quickly and move on"? With this new strategy, you will learn how to experiment and test high-risk ideas in a low-risk environment, practically eliminating the need to fail at all. You will know with almost complete certainty whether an idea will succeed or fail before you invest a lot of time, energy, or money into it.

This strategy is all about getting to the truth of the matter, no matter what the matter is, as quickly as possible. Once you know the truth, you can take the appropriate action to lead you to your goals.

It's also all about risk. Or, more specifically, your risk tolerance. Would you rather bet on a sure thing or go into a risky situation with only a guess as to what's going to happen? The techniques you're going to discover will help you get as close to that sure thing as...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Morgan James Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1614485070
• ISBN 13: 9781614485070
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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