Over this past weekend, my family insisted that we play some board games. I’ve played these games hundreds of times before and was getting myself prepared for what I thought would be a boring time. But instead of bringing out one of the old games from the closet, my daughter brought out a brand new game she had just bought from a department store. However, it wasn’t really so new at all. The name of the game was a familiar one but the rules had been changed to make it more interesting. » Read more: Board game facelifts
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Board game facelifts
April 6th, 2010Watch “Entry Level” the movie
January 2nd, 2010If you know someone who is unemployed or has been through a long job search process, tell them MrWes says to watch a movie on DVD called “Entry Level”. They’ll be laughing like crazy. » Read more: Watch “Entry Level” the movie
Google Calendar saved my Farm
December 17th, 2009The other day I wrote a post titled “Google Calendar does SMS Reminders.” I was excited about setting up events and letting Google Calendar remind you via text message at predetermined times before the event occurs. I really love the fact that you can setup several reminders before the event occurs. I’m already using it to remind me of appointments, but I discovered an unusual application for this tool. » Read more: Google Calendar saved my Farm
9 ways to keep your mind sharp
October 22nd, 2009In our daily rush to get things done we sometimes forget our brain needs to be worked out too. If we don’t do anything mentally challenging, our brains have a tendency to forget those skills we once knew so well. Those skills are still there, they’re just getting weaker from lack of use. This is especially important for anyone that is in a career transition.
While doing research for this post, I stumbled across a few interesting websites I will mention in this post.
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Store layout and traffic patterns affect sales
October 6th, 2009Some of you might be saying, well of course Store layout and traffic patterns affect sales. I usually think of store layout in terms of placing items where you want your customer to be. But, I never really thought about how a store layout can affect foot traffic until, I saw it with my own eyes. Of course this was a simulation in a Facebook application called Café World.
Café World allows you to layout your own Café. You place the stove where the cook prepares the food, where the serving tables are and where the customers eat. If you have a good layout, the cook is efficient, the waiters & waitresses can clean and serve efficiently and customers will get seated and served in a timely fashion. If your customers are happy, then they tell other customers about it and more customers come. If the customer walks in, but doesn’t see anywhere to sit, they grow impatient and leave unhappy. If the customer walks in and sits down but isn’t served within a reasonable time, they walk out unhappy.
It’s interesting to note that changing the placement of a door, table, chair or even a serving table can dramatically change traffic patterns either for good or bad.
Another interesting thing, is a layout that works for light traffic doesn’t always work well when it gets really busy. Customers have to wait longer and grow more impatient.
I’m sure the larger restaurants, grocery and department stores do traffic flow studies, but I wonder if they do foot traffic simulations like this to see how traffic changes when fixture placement changes.
