What is Occam’s Razor?
Wikipedia has it as
…The principle is popularly interpreted as “the simplest explanation is usually the correct one”…
Occam’s Razor is attributed to the 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar William of Ockham who wrote “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity”
PUT SIMPLY:
If you are tired, you probably need Sleep
If you are hungry, you probably need to eat
If the car is puttering to a stop, check the gas tank first!
check the most obvious thing first. Don’t overcomplicate.
You’d be surprised how many peoplel cannot do this simple thing, but your success as a web entrepreneur is based on your ability to think simply.
It takes practice. But after a while it becomes automatic and guess what? Most of the time the simple answer is the right one. I would say the 90% of the time the basic problem is the problem.
As I write this I’m in my aging father’s condominium, and several weeks ago we bought a big wall clock at Walmart. It’s one of those oversized clocks that you put on a wall and you don’t need anything else.
I came to visit my father, and he said “the lower hands don’t work.” and he left it at that. Later I lifted the clock off the wall, and saw the batter for the lower set of hands, and pulled it out to make sure it wasn’t the orientation of the battery (my father doesn’t tend to read directions and puts batteries in the opposite way and says “it doesn’t work”.
So the battery was in right, and then what is the next thing you should check?
Is the battery good or bad?
So I put in a new battery, and sure enough, it was the battery.
Occam’s razor would have said “first check the most obvious thing” the BATTERY
- If the battery is in right, check the battery itself.
- If the battery is good, it’s the mechanism.
- If it’s the mechanism, take it back to Walmart and exchange it.
- Bring clock home, put in battery the right way, and then it works!
My point is, if your efforts online are not producing results, ask old Occam.
Not getting enough adsense revenue?
- Is your site ranking?
- Do the keywords have adsense dollars and ads? (Mike shows you this in Blogging Underground)
- Is your content good, helpful and organized.
- How many links do you have pointing back?
Not getting enough Web Traffic?
- Are your pages good?
- Are you promoting?
- Are you working at it each day?
I’m just failing overall?
- Are you spreading yourself too thin?
- Working on to many things and diluting your efforts?
Folks, The item above haunts all of us. In my case I love to build sites, but you have to then nurture them. It’s a natural thing.
Less is more. Check your facts, and always check the GAS TANK!.