7 Things

Three things

Steve Jobs was famous for his presentations, particularly to investors, employees, and Mac user conferences. Jobs is considered one of the greatest corporate storytellers ever. Steve was passionate, concise, dramatic, and clever in his communication skills.

His short phrases were memorable and reverberated. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, he led off with this proclamation, "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone." Repeat that line several times during your presentation and people will remember it." When he introduced the iPod, he proclaimed that you can keep, "A thousand songs in your pocket," this was back when we had to manage hundreds of physical CDs.

One reason why he stuck to the rule of three is that it is very easy for everybody to remember three things. Often, Jobs would introduce 3 new products. For each product, he would introduce 3 amazing features. If you want somebody to remember something, stick to the rules of three and make your concepts memorable, like a headline.

Seven Things

My favorite list of 7 things includes some that we created right here in Agileana and others that continue to inspire us:

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen Covey

1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Things First
4. Think Win/win
5. Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the Saw

7 C's of SEO

1. Crawlability
2. Credibility
3. Code
4. Content
5. Conversation
6. Competition
7. Conversion

7 Drives of Website Traffic (7D Hub)

1. Information
2. Education
3. Entertainment
4. Community
5. Communication
6. Commerce
7. Tools

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