I had managed to get through most of my career as a software engineer without having to touch Microsoft Excel. My only encounters with this flagship product from MS was on the rare occasions that I actually did some business traveling and would then use an Excel template to compute my travel expenses.
It wasn’t until my last job position that I finally began to uncover the true power of Excel.
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During the Prohibition Era in America when alcohol was illegal, there were underground nightclubs and watering holes referred to as “speakeasys“. Old newsreel footage from the period would show well-dressed men and women knocking on a door in a seedy back alley that had a special peep hole built in to it. A pair of menacing looking eyes would then peer back from behind the sliding peep hole to check out the visitors. Once it had been determined that they were not police or other undesirables, the door would swing open to reveal a wild party raging on the other side.
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I joined “PPC Classroom” on the day it launched - September 25, 2007. I can easily remember that date because it’s my dad’s birthday, but anyway, I was sitting in front of my PC refreshing the sales page in order to qualify for the “fast action bonus”.
I’ve waited until now to write up a full review of PPCC in order to let all of the dust settle. And there has been quite a bit of dust to be settling.
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Like many Americans, I’ve been following the progress of the 2008 US Presidential campaigns. I’m probably spending way too much time with the likes of CNBC’s Chris Matthews (”Hardball”) and Keith Olbermann (”Countdown With Keith Olbermann) on the TV most week nights. But it’s all just too enthralling for me to tear myself away.
I can’t really say why, since none of the candidates on either side of the great political divide interests me much at all.
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Coming from an engineering background I’ve been conditioned to appreciate the value of data in shaping my decisions. It’s all part of the Scientific Process, which was introduced to us back around the 5th grade, but unless we went on to pursue careers in science-based fields, we promptly forgot about it.
However, if we eventually wandered over to the field of IM, then we started hearing the incessant chant of “testing and tracking“.
Jeez! All the techy stuff is bad enough, but now we’re expected to learn about A-B split testing, Taguchi methods, and Chi-Squared analysis.
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