Podcasts

For all of you who love high quality podcasts, like me, here are some of my favourites:
- Blick über den Tellerrand with Alex Wunschel (meta podcast)
- Coachcast
- Das Abenteuer Coaching
- Das Abenteuer Leben
- Das Abenteuer Lernen
- Das Abenteuer NLP & Kommunikation
- Der Training-Podcast für Führungskräfte
- Dr. Stefan Frädrich - Motivationspodcast
- Get-It-Done Guy´s Quick and dirty tips to work less and do more
- Grammar Challenge (Learn English)
- Grammar Girl Quick and dirty tips for better writing
- HPZ-Power Podcast
- The iPad possibilities podcast
- iPhoneBlog.de Podcast
- Learn French by podcast
- Sex, Hypnosis & NLP
- ShortBooks Podcast

You can find all these podcasts on iTunes. All of these podcasts offer great free of charge content, so there is no excuse for not braining yourself :-)

Great interview with Richard Bandler

I just found a great interview with Richard Bandler about what NLP is all about:









So keep on thinking about how to make things work and go for it!

Milton Erickson sessions

For all of my NLP-Trainer colleagues, here are some Milton Erickson sessions on youtube:















So keep on modelling his genius :-)

Afri Cola Spot - smart queuing - how to change the prisoner mode - be cause!

One way to change the prisoner mode while queuing:

So keep on dancing - with or without Afri and be cause !

Don Juan de Marco

This is one of my all time favourite movies - for many reasons. I watched it for the 6th time tonight and it always touches me more. Really a movie to think and feel about:



Here is just one of the quotes of this movie:

There are only four crucial questions in life:
-What is wholy? 
-What does the spirit consist of?
-What to live for?
-What to die for?

The answer is always the same: Only love!


Thank you Elisabeth for reminding me of this great quote :-)

Evernote business model

Have a look at this great presentation of the CEO of evernote, Phil Libin:



A lot of things to learn from him. Here are the best points (taken from the TechCrunch Blog):

• Sometimes people say “The best product doesn’t always win”, and are implying that you should focus on other areas, like marketing. In the Internet age, a good product can get the rest of that stuff (marketing, etc.) for free. So focus on that. And then charge for it.
• A year ago Evernote was making most of its money from licensing its technology, but it focused on its premium plans ($5/month or $45/year) because that was more scalable. Now, premium subscriptions bring in around $300-400k a month, and licensing represents around $45k.
• Evernote has 3.1 million cumulative users, and adds around 10k a day. Around 68k paying customers.
• Users have grown more valuable over time. New users convert to premium at a rate of .5%.  But of the users that signed up two years ago and are still active, 20% have become paid customers.
• This trend is important — most users quit quickly. But the ones that stay become much more likely to pay over time.
• Evernote’s cost per user is around 9 cents per active user per month. It makes around 25 cents per user per month. The site reached break even a year and a half ago.
• Entrepreneurs should aim to be making money on each new active user as soon as possible. Otherwise scaling just means you’re losing money faster, rather than earning it

And even if you thing that the summary is enough, watch the video. Phil is really great.

World championship vuvuzela alarm with Bernie and Ert

For of you, who grew up with Sesame Street, like me, and love or hate the current vuvuzela hype:



Have fun and party :-)