It’s getting to be common place now, but when I first saw it I had to say, “Oh Geez, how lazy are people getting?”

I don’t know about your super markets, but not so long ago while in the produce department, I learned you could purchase your very own all ready diced onions. That’s right, no more tears shed from this seemly evil, spicy, pungent vegetable.

Am I getting anywhere with this? Hang in there with me for just a moment.

At first I’m thinking, how lazy can people can get? It’s not that hard to cut up an onion, so your eyes redden and leak a little? Almost like an alien invasion, right after the onions, they were packaging celery, all cut up and ready to use. Next was carrots, they just kept coming…

Was it catering to the Lazy or .. Convenience?

Wow, hang on, that’s not really a bad idea. Not to mention they could sell a part of a vegetable for probably 3 times the price in the long run. Have not many millions been made just by providing convenience?

Those fancy pop-up ads on websites are really just code that any person with the knowledge could hand code on their own pages. Yet there are a slew of software programs that will spit out the code for you.. convenience.

Convenience is anything that is intended to save a time or frustration.Web pages could be hand written with a simple program called notepad that have been included with Windows for years. Yet I use a WYSIWYG web page creator because it’s … convenient. Squeeze pages are really just a html webpage, yet many folks are making mint incomes from squeeze page generators. People use to submit articles by hand, now they use a submission program, they even use programs to rewrite articles.. all convenient.

Stoves and ovens still do a great job of cooking most any food item efficiently, have for many years, yet could you live without your microwave?

What could you create that would be convenient to others? Could save them time and frustration? Others are making a small killing providing the service. What about you? Look around, take your time, I’ll still be here. I’m sure you could “Stumble” onto something.
I have yet to buy pre-dressed vegetables, and I’m sure Ginsu owners would cringe, but for some it’s a perfect convenience and they are more than willing to pay for it.

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I was lucky enough to get a brand spanking new Video Ipod for fathers day. I could not ask for a better family.

What really impressed me about the Ipod was when I opened that new box and how cool everything was. If you want a company to follow, apple has to on the top of the list. I’m not talking about just the device itself, we all pretty much know what they look like or how they work and many people already have one.

What stood out to me was everything including the box. Just from looking at the box itself, you knew you got something special, not the same old packaging every other company uses. Everything was arranged nice and neat inside, even the cables had their own separate divided pouch. Each cable had a plastic protector on the end. The entire package was, well, cool. Oddly, even the little icon to install the software stood out among the rest of the other icons on my hard drive.

Talk about a company that does everything high class and cool. Could you learn from them?

Many people say the appearance of a website is not that important.

What if Apple believed that appearance or looking cool was’nt important?

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