Yannick Grenzinger's notes

Après avoir lu l'Art de la Guerre par Sun Tzu , je viens de finir le Prince de Machiavel . Le premier est un excellent livre mais il reste un ouvrage dont les principes sont très rattachés à la stratégie militaire. A mon avis, il est difficile de les juxtaposer dans d'autres domaines de nos sociétés occidentales. Le deuxième, cependant, mérite complètement sa lecture. Principalement car il présente des principes fondamentaux dans la politique surtout dans son contexte de lutte de pouvoir. Et la politique et les luttes de pouvoir sont présentes dans beaucoup de domaines. On peut ainsi facilement retrouver des conseils applicables dans de grands groupes. Mais, particularité intéressante, j'y ai trouvé une relation entre ces principes et le management de projet. Pour ca, il faut voir les qualités d'un Prince que présente Machiavel : - les scrupules dans la préparation (bonne spécification ? test driven development ?) - l'énergie dans la conquête (conquête rapide et i...

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First, for my personnal MBA, i have now finished three more books : Making thing happen, explaining all project management. Cuting to the chase, 100 usefull tips to be more effective in jobs. Crucial Conversation, very interesting book explaining how to handle difficult problem with dialogue. For my eBusiness and testing blog www.goth-corsets.com , I'm adding slowly more content. I am also tweaking wordpress plugins and Meta description to have a clean content analysis by Google bot. By mystic of SEO, my page rank is getting worse in Yahoo and a lot better for Google. I'm also reading a 31 day challenge about blogs from probloggers.com and doing some articles for quittersonjob.fr

Since, last post one month has passed, again too fast. Lot's of work in my current job and a lot of desillusion. However I have found some time to continue my business challenge. I have open www.goth-corsets.com website with a wordpress blog. I have begin to add some contents. I have also done a lot of rework to correct the content, suppress duplicate content from other webiste, correct url or have correct categories. All of this was mainly done for search engine optimization and I am very disappointed of the results. After having a good classement for "goth corsets" keyword, I have almost now referencing on Google. I have to understand ... On the other side, Yahoo is helping me with 4th page for "goth corsets" and "goth corset" results. In parallel, I am doing some articles for a friend website called www.quittersonjob.fr

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For some times now, i'm reading about web marketing and business thanks to book like the four hour workweek or the site the thirty day challenge . I'm doing this test with a friend who has launched his own web site : http://romanticguidetoparis.com/ The main idea is to test the interest of the public to a product before really creating it. The first step was to search a niche domain where i can create a product. For that, I have used google adword, SEO tools and a very usefull application named Market Samurai. The niche product is, at this time, only a set of keywords with enough searchs by day, the less possible number of sites already associated to them and site with a weak page rank (the score that google affect to the site to sort the search results). And i have found : gothic corset. I have found a avaliable domain name : www.goth-corsets.com . The next step is to create the site with wordpress and begin to make it known.

Difficult to maintain a blog when you have so many occupation :) What's happen during this two months ? Some trips in les Alpes (skiing) and in London (this city is fanstatic ... if you are rich). I have finished some books of my personnal mba : - the unwritten laws of business - the design of every day things (I am a big fan of it). - the four hour workweek I'm reading Making Things happen about project management which is also excelent. I'm very happy to have discovered personnal MBA and the recommended reading list. So far they are very good and i'm learning a lot. I have also read a french book named "Back-offices et marchés financier". The first part explains what is a back office and the second part explains the interest, problems and risks of back-office. This second part is mainly based on the exemple of Baring's case who was sunk by one trader. Written in 1997, he explains the importance of back offices to avoid financial crisis .... yes like the...