06-12-2016, 11:47 PM
(06-12-2016, 10:23 PM)Shannon Wrote: I do the same thing. It's an effort to refine and make it better.
I'm not talking about you specifically, though. It's just sometimes I feel like it is impossible to please people. That there will never be a "Yes, this is finally universally good enough." Decades of R&D and yet no matter what, I still have people complaining. I guess I will just have to come to terms with the fact that you cannot please everyone all of the time. Or at all, it would seem.
I often hear the 80 / 20 rule as applied in business. Like 80% of profits come from 20% of actual work, or even concerning such things as customer satisfaction. I've personally found from four different businesses online that it's more like 90 / 10 for me. 90% of profit comes from 10% of work, but that has also applied to customer satisfaction.
In a way i feel like it applies to your work as well. I privately feel like other subliminal sellers probably get like 50% or less customer satisfaction (as in actual conscious realization of effects), so 90+% customer satisfaction would actually be pretty astounding. But you said that one key phrase just now which is not business friendly, and that's wanting your subs to be "universally" good for everyone who uses them. I just don't think that's possible.
BUT, I do realistically believe that even if 80 - 90% of the people who use them will consciously realize their effects IF they are in a position for that to happen. With that said, it's literally out of your hands in many of those cases of 10+% of people who can't get the stuff to work. I really don't think it's the sub that failed, but far more likely that they're not in a position to fully experience that particular sub at that time. Call it horrible timing or whatever, but for some reason it just wasn't for them.
Universal satisfaction is a nice idea, but horribly difficult to achieve. It's almost nonsensical because you're trying to please everyone (which i get) but it's just not going to happen literally due to factors that are outside of your control. I call the timing of being introduced to your subs "cosmic timing" because I REALLY could have used them years ago, but somehow it just wasn't the time. I am part of the 90%, or whatever the stat is, of people who greatly enjoy your work.
Bottom line: don't get put off too much by those who you just can't please. That will always happen for every business ever. Pushing yourself to create better and crazier products / technologies is one thing, but don't let the naysayers put you off.