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Fantasy share prices and performance numbers?

I have been noticing increasing frustration from people with sites like Empire Avenue and Klout recently, where they are spending large amounts of time trying to get their score up and being frustrated when the result doesn’t match the effort.

Futility of one number sites

This is something I have blogged about before:

Simulations vs games

What’s your real performance number?

 

Having signed up to these sites myself to get an insider’s view, and been ‘successful’ there, I have deleted my profiles and… nothing happened! The world didn’t end as some people predict.

 

There was a comment I read a while ago from Chris Voss about Empire Avenue that applies to all of these public sites that claim to ‘rank’ you (according to their own rules) that I very much agree with:

 

“Companies spend millions of dollars to have people mentally ASSOCIATE their brands with success and positivity. Since most companies can’t be online all the time, their stock eventually loses. On discussion boards Companies and Brands get kicked around and trashed with the association of their name as “losers.” They are listed in categories as Losers. It doesn’t seem that smart to me.”

 

Indeed, Hannah Liversidge recently blogged about smartphones and the potential dangers, it is something that is magnified greatly by the use of these sites.

 

I do own a smartphone myself and I do use it out of work hours, however this is something I have chosen to do as it differentiates my business.

If I receive an enquiry from a client in the evening or at the weekend and it is a quick reply, and if it is appropriate, I will respond.

This isn’t to increase some fictional score or ranking, it is adding value to the service I provide to clients and as a result we both benefit in real terms.

 

As I say in my book, the combination of online and offline networking can bring great results – but be aware of activity that feels like work but isn’t.

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I built up my tax experience in industry and practice over 17 years before founding my own practice in 2006.

Based in Cobham, Surrey I can also help clients throughout the UK.

  

My goal is to make personal tax and accounts for the self-employed as easy as possible for clients

 

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Small Business Saturday is the UK's most successful small business campaign. Only one hundred of the UK’s top small businesses are selected each year for the SBS100. They act as trail-blazers in the official count-down towards the annual event.

I was one of the alumni from the 2014 Small Business Saturday 100, resulting in two visits to Downing Street.

In the Surrey Digital Awards from 2015 - 2018, I was also the winner of several top awards.

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