{"id":659,"date":"2008-11-11T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=659"},"modified":"2008-11-11T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T20:07:48","slug":"8020-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/8020-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"80\/20 Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many rules I follow.<\/p>\n<p>However 80\/20 rules is one that I pay attention to.<\/p>\n<p>The argument is 20% of causes lead to 80% of consequences.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: its not strictly 80\/20 it can be 90\/10)<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20% of streets cause 80% of traffic jams<\/li>\n<li>20% of your clients derive 80% of your profits<\/li>\n<li>20% of faults make up 80% of your replacement costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smart thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I always throw this around every few months, see what else I&#8217;m doing wrong, or where improvements can be made.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples i&#8217;ve found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20% of our Marketing Exp lead to 80% of our revenue.<\/li>\n<li>10% of my calls derive 90% of my mobile bill<\/li>\n<li>20% of my clients derive roughly 85% of my revenue (fluctuates a little bit)<\/li>\n<li>13% of our content drove 95% of our traffic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve identified a link, what can you do to improve that 20%? How can you look after your clients that drive 80% of our profit? Can you modify your call behaviour to lower the 10% that make up 90% of your bill?<\/p>\n<p>Give it a shot, it&#8217;s not only fun, it&#8217;s quite interesting to see the results.<\/p>\n<p>Have you already done it? share your results I&#8217;m always intrigued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many rules I follow. However 80\/20 rules is one that I pay attention to. The argument is 20% of causes lead to 80% of consequences. (Note: its not strictly 80\/20 it can be 90\/10) Examples are: 20% of streets cause 80% of traffic jams 20% of your clients derive 80% of your profits 20% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,33,423,747,896],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}