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Pavel: 80/20 Powerlifting and How to Add 110+ Pounds to Your Lifts

Pavel Tsatsouline, former Soviet Special Forces physical training instructor, has made a name for himself in the world of strength. He wrote the below article, outlining the simple routine of Russian Master of Sports, Alexander Faleev, for Built magazine, which folded before publication. Pavel contacted me to publish the piece here, and I am pleased to offer it to you as an exclusive.

What the Top 20% Really Make

Often I get asked just what the top 20% make in actual income, and today I can tell you…

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80/20 – You Keep Hearing It – But What Are You Doing About It?

Everybody loves to talk about the 80/20 rules of selling, but did you know that 80/20 rules apply to most things you do and are in life.

80/20 Marketing

About 80% of your marketing results come from 20% of your marketing efforts. If you can correctly identify the 20% of your marketing that works, you will save an incredible amount of time in your business. And as any good shoestring marketer knows, time is money.

New 80/20 Equation

Most people have heard of the "80/20 Rule." It usually refers to an inefficiency in business or in life. For example, when 80 percent of your customers produce only 20 percent of your profit or 20 percent of your students are causing 80 percent of the problems.

Challenging the 80:20 rule

It’s probably the best-known and most-repeated rule in sales: 80% of your sales come from 20% of your customers. The implication is that you should focus the majority of your sales efforts on those 20% to maximise your returns. But it’s also the most misunderstood and misused rule in sales. Slavishly following the 80:20 rule could cause you big, big problems.

Are You Making the Most of the 80/20 Rule?

80/20 Principle: 20% of everything you do results in 80% of your outcomes. Ouch! That's a tricky concept, isn't it? Yet, understanding what it means to your business - and your life - is essential to earning what you're worth, and doing so in less time. If only you could understand what that 20% is, and what the heck you're doing with your time. The trick is knowing, without question, what your customers pay you for, and matching that up with engaging your best talents in your work. When you find the intersection it's magic.

Beating The 80/20 Rule

The span of control of sales managers has a major bearing on saleperson effectiveness. In B-2-B sales the optimum ratio of sales manager to salesperson is around 4-5 to 1

80/20 Principle in Entrepreneurship

To work effectively and profitably in business our 20% input of work should yield 80% output. 1. Where is the 20% input in your daily work either at home or in business that returns 80% rewards? 2. What has to happen in your business to pay attention and focus on that best 80% return? We should act on what inspires us. Sometimes unknown to ourselves, there is a power in us greater than our resistance. Because of this we should feed our inspiration and starve our resistance. Do not rob the world of what you have to share.

Applying the 80/20 rule

While surveying land for taxation purposes, he discovered that roughly about 80 percent of the land in any region he visited was owned by about 20 percent of the town or village population. Regardless of the location the ratio was about the same. This is known as the 80/20 Rule.

The 8020 Rule Fallacy In Sales

The 80/20 rule in sales organizations dies hard. You’ll need to work diligently and hard to eliminate it and then even harder to keep it from resurfacing.

The 80-20 Rule and Client Drama

The 80-20 Rule, AKA the Pareto Principle, states that “for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.” This can be observed in any volunteer organization, for example, a church, where 20% of the people do 80% of the work. In our eight-plus years of doing web development at Pelago, we have concluded that the inverse of this rule applies to client drama. That is, 80% of your negative experiences will be caused by 20% of your clients (and maybe even a smaller number like 5%). As a small business owner, how do you navigate this effect? You get tough.

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