oneguy - 12:56 pm on Aug 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

Good post Ron. The 80/20 thing is the only issue I have with your post, There's no particular compelling reason to assume that it actually DOES apply to many things. It's often misused, and as with most rules of thumb, it's often somewhat wrong, and occasionally really really wrong.

Even if you assume it is true, there's also an assumption that you have to build the crappy 80% along with the good 20%. Otherwise, we'd just build the 20%, right? But wait, then it would be 100%.

You can call it 80-20, but building the crappy 80% is just part of the deal. You're still back to 100% of your pages making 100% of your income.

Even using the 80-20 thing, you still double your pages (or sites) to double your income.

Using one page as an example isn't really real world. Could we also say that 20% of that one page makes 80% of the income for that page? If so, you still have to write 100% of the page.

The rest of the original post gave me plenty to think about that I might not have otherwise. Thanks.