Going Down South Tomorrow Morning May 14, 2018 bizadmin I shall be traveling down south tomorrow morning to KL. After putting my pet Pomeranian in a pet boarding place, and a short trip to Sungai Petani, Kedah this afternoon, we shall set forth to KL in the morning. I have already put my supplements and vitamins into the pill box for 2 weeks, but I should be back soon as dad has to go for an ultrasound and my presence is needed, as requested by youngest sister. I have also resumed writing for a travel website and I need cash to help offset dad’s exorbitant expenses due to a heart attack. His stay at a local nursing home is also not cheap and GST was charged too. Dad suffered 4 heart attacks in 6 months and the sooner he goes for an open heart surgery, the better. The question is where! Well, it is free in GH but payable in a private hospital. I could only pray that God will use the cardio surgeon as an instrument to help heal dad while the Almighty does the actual healing. Dad is not like Dr Mahathir; still very strong and even won the recent election. Dad is fragile and is suffering from a few illnesses that I shall not mention. I just pray for his longevity and at the same time, not to neglect my work while accompanying youngest sis to the hospitals, GH or private. Meanwhile, pray for my safe journey to KL for business by car.
Be the Head and Not the Tail April 9, 2018 bizadmin “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer This has been true since the beginning of time… The automobile… The mobile phone… The Internet… And so it goes with the quest to ‘work online’ or ‘work from home.’ It’s often the case when people hear you talk about creating an online business, or ‘working from home.’ Your friends and family think you’re crazy, then they try to stop you…then they’re jealous of the amazing lifestyle you find! We know what that’s like… We went from thinking it was ‘too good to be true,,,,’ … to joining those that had already escaped the rat race… fired their boss, and were living the life of their dreams in whatever slice of paradise they had discovered… We have friends who have their ‘slice of paradise’ in the Swiss Alps, a beachfront house in Costa Rica, and a cliff-top home overlooking the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Of course, it’s wonderful to have this network of friends who also work online – we spend a lot of time on ‘working holidays’ visiting each other! In the future, this e-economy with be the norm rather than the exception, so why not be an early adopter, and beat the masses, and get established now. Laptop Lifestyle System is an online system available to you to start your online business now!
How to Sell on Instagram – 6 Tips that Actually Work March 27, 2018 bizadmin Learning how to sell on Instagram offers businesses of all sizes incredible opportunities to reach their target audience and drive sales. In September 2017, Instagram announced their business community has grown to two million advertisers, up from one million advertisers back in March. From major brands to local mom-and-pop shops, businesses around the world are driving proven results with Instagram. According to a recent report, 75 percent of Instagram users take action, such as visiting a website or making a purchase, after looking at Instagram ads! 1) Optimize Your Instagram Business Profile Instagram profiles are becoming the new homepage, as more and more consumers are turning to Instagram instead of Google to search for brands. This means you should be spending as much time and effort curating a beautifully-designed Instagram feed as you would creating your website. Your Instagram Business profile should include: Profile photo: Choose a photo that is on-brand (like a logo) which makes your company easy to identify. A Well-Crafted Bio: Your bio should include a clear description of your business that speaks to your audience. Let them know exactly what you have to offer. Link to shop: The URL section of your bio is the only clickable link you can add to your Instagram page – so make sure you’re using it! This is a great place to drive traffic from your individual posts and Stories. Creating a unique URL for this section will also give you the opportunity to track visits to your website from Instagram! 2) Using Instagram Ads to Reach Your Target Audience With continued changes to the Instagram algorithm and heightened competition to have your content be seen, Instagram ads will become a critical part of Instagram marketing strategy for businesses. Once you’ve set up a Business profile on Instagram, you can then decide how much you want spend, where you’d like the ad to be seen and how long you want to run it for. Instagram allows businesses a variety of targeting options to best suit your businesses needs. Running your own Instagram ad campaign isn’t that difficult, but it can be intimidating to many small business owners and influencers who haven’t done it before. Fortunately, it’s not as hard as you think! The easiest way to run ads is by promoting posts you’ve shared on Instagram. Just select the post you want to boost, then hit the “promote” button once it’s posted. Instagram will automatically pull in a “similar audience” that you can share the post to, or you can easily create your own audience in the app by choosing an interest, age range, and the genders you want to promote to. Once you’ve set up your audience and budget, make sure to give your ad one last look over before hitting “Confirm.” You can start with a small budget and run your ad for a few days to test things out. To track how your ad is performing, click “View Results” in the bottom left corner of your ad. Remember, Instagram Ads can take practice, so make sure you continue to tweak your boosted posts and audiences until you get the results you want! The best Instagram ads for driving ecommerce sales includes messaging that clearly explains how to make a purchase. Take @thebouqsco for example. In the example below, they use the call-to-action “Shop Now and save” in the caption followed by a short description of the offer. They also use “Shop Now” as a call-to-action for the button to to encourage users to make the purchase. Basically, The Bouqs Co. simplifies the buying process. The ad makes it super clear what they are offering without any extra distraction. It’s important you keep your messaging simple, not to distract users from the goal of your post. How to Sell on Instagram with Instagram Stories Ads In March 2017, Instagram released advertising in Stories, offering brands yet another paid opportunity to reach more people. These immersive, full screen ads lets your business use targeting and reach capabilities that make your ads personally relevant to the people you want to reach. While photo ads will likely retain their top spot well into 2018, statistics show that Instagram Stories ads will see the most growth. In fact, “30% of businesses plan to create Instagram Stories ads in 2018, while only 8% did in 2017”. These ads pop up in between Instagram Stories of accounts you follow and can make a large impact on potential customers: You’ll notice a small “Sponsored” tag in the top right corner and a Call-To-Action (“Learn More”) at the bottom of these ads. Again, adding an additional call-to-action at the bottom of your ad can also be helpful for those interested in learning more. You have a choice in Instagram Ads to create either a video or a photo. Whichever you choose, make sure your initial clip is attention-grabbing. You’ll need to catch the eyes of those who quickly tap through stories. Instagram Stories have become a great way for businesses to make deeper connections with their followers and show off their brand’s personality. In 2017 Instagram reported “one in five stories on Instagram gets a direct message from its viewers.” Instagram Stories offer you chance to connect with their followers on a daily basis, without cluttering up your feed. Make sure you’re not missing out on this great opportunity to connect with future customers! 3) Creating Instagram Stories With Product Links Instagram Stories is exploding in popularity, and the feature has over 300 million daily active users, more than double Snapchat! As Instagram Stories continues to grow in popularity, it’s no surprise businesses are continuing to find new and creative ways they can sell using this feature. Instagram Stories is the perfect opportunity for businesses to engage with audiences on a more frequent and personal basis. Many brands use Instagram Stories to capture their products in action, promote special offers or showcase new items. In 2017, Instagram graced users with 10,000 followers or more the ability to add links to Instagram Stories, which was great news for retail brands and publishers. This is a huge Instagram trend right now, and can help you grow your email list, sell products, drive traffic, and more. When adding a link to Instagram Stories, you’ll notice a small arrow and “See More” text appear at the bottom of your image. Since this small text may be unnoticed, you can add text directing users to “Swipe Up” for added visibility. The Instagram algorithm now takes into account all the interactions you receive on your Instagram Stories as well, such as replies or when your stories are sent to someone. The more that a user interacts with your Instagram Stories, the more likely your posts will show up in their feed. A great Instagram hack to get around the algorithm is to take advantage of Instagram Stories engagement opportunities, including the polling feature or “Swipe Up” option (if you have over 10k followers). We’ve also been seeing a lot of micro-influencers telling their followers to “DM me for a direct link to this product!” which is a great way to drive people to your inbox, build relationships with your followers, and ultimately increase the chance of your posts showing up on their feed. These are all great tactics to drive your customers to engage with your brand and a way to make sure you stay “top of mind” with your audience. 4) Building a Shoppable Instagram Feed This year you can also expect to see more of Instagram and Shopify’s new shopping feature integration, as it’s set to be released to Shopify’s wider user base in 2018! According to Shopify and TechCrunch, “Instagram is already a ‘significant’ driver of Shopify merchant store traffic, so being able to convert said traffic right on the platform instead of round-tripping could result in a big boost of additional sales.” Instagram’s shopping feature allows businesses to tag products that are available for sale, and then let users purchase them directly within the app. Instagram product tagging is currently in testing and only available to an initial group of Shopify businesses however once the test phase is complete, this feature will be available to everyone. Shopify plugins like Shoppable Instagram Galleries makes it easier than ever for your business to make sales. Their Instant Purchases feature lets visitors add to cart and buy the liked items directly from images on your feed! Businesses can create a custom gallery to showcase their products, then simply add the gallery’s link to their Instagram profile bio. Creating a shoppable Instagram feed like Later’s Linkin.bio feature is a popular strategy for businesses looking to drive sales through Instagram. Here you can see @meundies custom URL in their bio, where they can direct users through post captions and Instagram stories: Linkin.bio is a landing page that resembles your Instagram feed and displays your posts as clickable images that you can link directly to a product page. This makes it easy to build a clickable, shoppable feed that links your audience straight to your content. You can also link to multiple websites and and pages, all without changing the link in your bio: When one of your followers clicks on the link in your bio, they’ll be taken to a web and mobile-optimized landing page that resembles your Instagram feed and displays your Instagram posts as clickable images. When your followers visit your Linkin.bio page, they can click on any of your Instagram posts to visit the product page that your photo is about. 5) Offering Instagram-Only Promotions Shoppers love a good sale or promotion. Instagram is the perfect place to promote a sale, new product launch or discount code exclusively to your followers. You can either add your promo information in a caption or in Instagram Stories, encouraging users to click the link in your bio to take advantage of the offer. If you’re running an Instagram-exclusive promotion, you also can create a teaser on your other social networks to drive traffic to your Instagram business profile. Promoting exclusive Instagram-only promotions (for example, a special discount code for your followers) among your other social networks will encourage audiences to follow your Instagram account to make sure they don’t miss out on future offers. 6) Establish Partnerships with Instagram Influencers Instagram influencers continue to be a hot topic as collaborations and sponsorships have nearly replaced traditional ads and are a huge part of a social media strategies today. Consumers today don’t trust traditional advertising — they trust people. Recent research from Nielsen shows that consumers trust personal recommendations above brand advertisements. The easier it is for a customer to picture themselves using your product, the easier it will be to sell to them. Influencer marketing gives brands a unique opportunity to reach a niche and engaged audience. Although it may initially seem like a risk to invest large amounts of money into influencer marketing, it’s important to consider exactly what you are paying for. Consider advertisers that spend upwards of $5 million (excluding production costs) for a 30-second Super Bowl commercial to reach more than 100 million viewers — who may or may not be the brand’s target audience. A series of Instagram posts by a fashion blogger with 500,000 followers and a cult-following, could sell out an entire product line within 24 hours. If you don’t have the budget to partner with a big influencer, consider finding a micro-influencer. These influencers have a significant, but not massive following, usually ranging anywhere from 1,000 to 100,000 followers. Micro-influencers are typically much more willing to do an “in-kind” agreement, trading product for promotion. If you’re a small business, investing in micro-influencers could be a great way to help drive potential customers to your page. 79% of businesses rank engagement as the most important factor when evaluating who is an ideal influencer, followed by quality of followers (70%) and industry or niche (67%). It’s important you spend more time thinking about your strategy and campaign goals before getting started on your influencer marketing campaign. Setting up crystal clear goals will drive initial planning decisions and help you determine the best fit for your partnership. While working with an influencer, it’s important to make the paid partnership feel as natural as possible. Sitting an influencer in a chair to talk about how great your product is will likely come off as an advertisement and will quickly lose your viewer’s attention. For example, lifestyle blogger Jacey Durprie’s latest partnership with Biossance aligns perfectly with her brand, as she frequently shows off her morning routine and favorite products. She keeps it conversational, asking her followers their favorite “beauty hacks” and shares one of her own: The partnership feels very natural, without looking like a typical advertisement. Whichever route you chose, influencer marketing is here to stay. Influencer marketing is a great way for you to tap into a niche and engaged audience, to build brand awareness and most importantly, drive sales. Figuring out how to sell on Instagram will take some practice in order to determine what methods work best for your business. By Matt Smith Matt Smith, is the founder of Later an Instagram marketing and post scheduling platform. Smith had previously founded several startups including online course platform Thinkific.
10 Habits of Self-Made Millionaires March 25, 2018 bizadmin These are the 10 nuggets of gold – Habits of Self-Made Millionaires. Statistics show that these are the common straits of such people, regardless of whether they are born rich or poor. What sets millionaires apart from the average people? Were they born into the right family? Did they strike the lottery? Research shows that they have these traits in common. 1) Thinking in Abundance There is no shortage of money on this planet, only a shortage of people who think correctly. As you are reading this, there is $2.3 TRILLION dollars circulating around the globe everyday, and that amount is destined to grow throughout time! 2) Surround Yourself with Like-Minded Individuals You are the sum of 5 people you spend the most of your time with. As the risk of being portrayed as arrogant, rich and successful people value their network of friends, because rich people build rich networks! 3) Shift Focus from Spending Money to Making Money Instead of becoming a consumer, become a producer. Instead of buying more, sell more. Instead of attending seminars, host seminars. Instead of buying books, sell books. You get the idea. Not that there is anything wrong with consuming, it is simply that rich people produce more than they consume. 4) No TV Did you know why you don’t see ads on Lamborghini on TV? It is because the people who can afford them don’t waste time sitting on the couch! 5) Multiple Streams of Income The rich people have multiple streams of income and don’t just depend on one. Income streams could be from property rentals, investment in stocks, royalties from book authoring, full time jobs, side hustling, hosting webinars, etc. 6) Be Generous The truly rich people think about serving others and giving back to the community. The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity. 7) Have an Exit Strategy Everytime you hear someone become a success overnight, it is backed by effort and turmoil. Ultimately, all the multi-millionaires and billionaires get their break when they sell their business away – which is actually the ultimate exit strategy. Whatsapp was started in 2009 and sold for $19 BILLION in 2014! 8) Get into Properties This is the most time tested vehicle to creating and protecting your wealth since centuries ago. If you really don’t know what to do with the excess of your money, you cannot go wrong putting them in properties. 9) Leaders are Readers For the rich and successful, learning never stops even after graduation. 10) Always be Hustling All the tips, tricks and trade secrets won’t amount to anything if you just sit around and do nothing. As you see, successful people are not necessarily smarter or more talented. They simply hustle or work more even when the going gets tough.
Came Back from KL March 21, 2018 bizadmin I came back from KL last night and had dinner at Chick King, an eatery with several branches all over Malaysia. I took several mouthfuls of fish fillet burger and some potato chips with ice Milo for dinner. Earlier, we stopped over at Tapah where I got some fruits and dined at Baskin Robbins with a scoop of mint chocolate topped with 3 spoonfuls of dipping hard chocolate and garnished with chopped walnuts. My colleague visit the client, an architect, and apparently he wants some clarification on our products. Today, I have 2 major quotations to prepare and email out. Next week, I shall be in Kuala Lumpur again, most probably by car. Tomorrow will help sis fetch dad to GH for his angiogram. That’s why we cut short the trip.
I love my JOB – Joy On Board March 14, 2018 bizadmin There could be frustrations at times due to favouritism and unfairness, but nevertheless, I still love my job. It does not really promote meritocracy. Having been in and out of other jobs, anyway, I am still grateful to God for my blessing. For most people, a JOB is Just Over Broke and they live from paycheque to paycheque. As for me a JOB is Joy on Board. Notice the acronym? I work in a home office since 2004 and have been blessed with a job specially catered to my talents, doing mainly administrative work like a secretary. The office is just a walk to the next room and I work in my jammies or pyjamas. No more makeup, changing of office clothes and getting stuck in snarling traffic jams just to commute to work. And I am rather well compensated, like working in an MNC (multinational corporation) in Bayan Lepas, the silicon valley of Penang. There’s EPF, SOCSO, medical benefits, meals and utilities.
Civil Engineering March 11, 2018 bizadmin The final place I labored at was previously a thriving design / build firm. On the couple of occasions the mind trust in the Architecture department and the Construction department would gather their donuts and coffee and meet within the conference room to go over the caliber of our construction sketches and how you can improve them. To read more about aci 318-14 pdf visit our website. Our sketches had the standard problems because of the usual pressures of the busy architectural work atmosphere missing information, conflicts, coordination issues, CAD anomalies, etc. Recall the days when firms had drawing checkers? It appears that no-one checks sketches any longer there’s just virtually no time within the schedule or budget. Now we call that process putting in a bid. It sure helps make the construction guys angry. We obtain sensitive about our design work, however they get sensitive when cash is involved. Many people are simply so materialistic. Because the CAD manager, I’d sit and take notes during these conferences, while attempting to balance an espresso, diet coke and two donuts within my lap. After around an hour and one half, everyone had their say. Although I’d a lot of notes, these were just details pointing to the point. The issue was surprisingly simple, the sketches weren’t coordinated. ARCHITECTURAL DESKTOP Because the CAD manager, I had been greatly grieved with this. I was using Architectural Desktop for our work. I was utilizing it like a BIM tool, building a 3D model and removing all of the 2D sketches. Very awesome however it was difficult to do, needed many years of training on my small part, many years of setup and the enter your car and training of recent people. A few of the new everyone was very resistant against employed in 3D and with tools they weren’t acquainted with. Some were really subversive. I known as these folks flat-landers simply because they desired to experience architecture in 2D. I guess it had been much better than giving them a call things i wanted to. More information on sfd and bmd for simply supported beam can be found by visiting our website. As difficult because it was, i was receiving targeted results. We’re able to create live renderings quickly, we understood exactly what the building really was likely to seem like and we understood in which the design problems were developing. We even made cash on our architectural charges from time to time. Just how did this issue occur? Because the project got nearer to finishing and the resolution from the detail grew to become finer, Architectural Desktop grew to become harder and finicky. When crunch time came, the subversive flat-landers would explode the work. Once exploded into lines, the less experienced would deconstruct the coordination in order to produce the illusion the project was really finished. Once the inevitable changes arrived, the work CAD data degenerated even more. REVIT ARCHITECTURE Then along came Revit. The program satisfied the commitment of what Architectural Desktop was said to be. Don’t misunderstand me, it had been a large pain to apply however i understood when I possibly could make Architectural Desktop work for us, i then could implement Revit. Management was definitely not always supportive, supplying no training and no setup time to really make it work, however they did provide doubt and critique. A minimum of they compensated for the needed hardware and software. In Architectural Desktop you needed to invent complex systems to handle a task. In Revit it was already taken proper care of. In Architectural Desktop you needed to invent complex CAD standards and program them directly into your system, and then train users and enforce the factors. With Revit, the factors from the box labored for us. It was absolutely amazing. I’m able to enter any office with Revit on the computer and just begin working. Suppose? I can not even start to tell you just how much CAD personalization I’ve done within the last two decades. I do not do anything whatsoever to Revit except to produce families, (their term for parametric block styles) shared parameters and project templates. Architectural desktop is rough, Revit is smooth. Architectural Desktop is fragile and breaks, Revit is powerful and solid. Upgrading Architectural Desktop is really a multi-week process involving breaking all of the a lot of current personalization and rebuilding it after you buy a couple of books, email some gurus, and discover the hidden cache of secret inside info on what’s really happening within the stupid program. It requires not just one but a minimum of three programming languages to create this factor work right. Then obviously you need to re-train you. Upgrading Revit can be achieved over lunch, without any training. I do not even consider the readme file. BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) BIM? I truly did not like this acronym. I loved SBM (Single Building Model). It did not appear to match Autodesk’s marketing strategy though. Nobody requested me anyway. Really I have faith that the mounds of knowledge in each and every magazine today and on every site about BIM are mainly crap. Each one of these pros who avoid using Revit say you can perform this, that and another factor. I do not inflict of individuals. I am not really sure what they’re. Possibly we’ll see sometime later on. But here’s where BIM and Revit Architecture rocks. You cannot explode the Revit model. Which means that the geometry will be coordinated. The reference tags and sheet figures can’t be edited individually from the model. These tags aren’t fragile they’re reliable, from the model and the schedules. I am unsure that you can place a Revit project from coordination despite great effort. So much like that, nearly all our drawing problems have left. This is evidence of how intelligent software could make you a much better architect. Yes I stated it Revit can make you a much better architect. At our firm, Revit stopped is the office joke as our efficiency improved. Whenever we needed to bring in help for our architecture department, Revit experience was our main concern. It had been beginning to become focus in our marketing at that time I left. The very first factor that won people’s hearts about our Revit results was that people were solving design problems that people might not have seen previously. Our solutions were valid right right from the start. Inside a design / build office where construction guys are searching over your shoulder, this really is critical. RENDERING Through the design process, you are able to place a video camera and snap a nearly perfect rendering. The rendering abilities are perfect and also material and link suitable for 3DS Max if you opt for it. The simple Mental Ray rendering dialog box produced amazing results fast with no work. Any Revit user are now able to make excellent renderings having a couple of minutes of training. Not just could you have top quality renderings fast, however you may also have plenty of made images inside a project to obviously articulate your design for your client. Revit can make you a much better architect. After I printed the assistance system for Viz Render, the rendering tool in Architectural Desktop, it filled two volumes and was on the 1000 pages, in addition to taking plenty of time for you to master. For more information on etabs tutorials, visit our website today. DESIGN PARADIGM SHIFT Between your smooth 3D interface and rendering stacks of views, architects are in possession of a brand new first. They be capable of easily see every uncovered surface inside a building design – walls, floors, ceilings and roofs – Inside and out. For the very first time we are able to see everything of all time built. Wow, can you begin to see the implications? There’s now no excuse for bad design or design mistakes. Many people have no idea this but nearly all architects and designers really do not know just what the built design may be like. Sure they know and many are way much better than others, but this can be a fundamental problem especially in which the design charges are low and things are in black and white-colored and 2D. Once while designing some ductwork, I produced an MC Escher like sculpture. My boss was amused while he caught it, however that might have been a large problem. Revit can make you a much better architect due to the fact you are becoming immediate feedback in your design. If you begin to see the object as it will likely be, then you will correct and optimize it. It might be absurd to not. You will not have the ability to sleep understanding that flaw is within your design. I believe what flat-landers like is that they look in their 2D black and white-colored drawing and can think perfect and congratulations since it matches their imagination. 3D and color is just too many details for them. Architectural drawing without 3D is much like typing instructions on the computer with no monitor. You most likely got the majority of it right. You are most likely not really able change it out. You may redo it a couple of occasions. Wouldn’t the feedback from the monitor be great? I’ve found it interesting what size contractors are among individuals leading the proceed to BIM due to collision recognition tools and the cash they save in stopping construction errors and identifying design errors. Some contractors are getting their in-house Revit guys model the 2D construction documents the architects issue to trap their design errors. Stick to the money. Should not the architects be leading this? I wish to think that the architects not using Revit just have no idea better. They do not know about its coordination features, rendering abilities, and its detailing tools. They do not know it may completely replace AutoCAD. They might believe that attracting 3D wastes time, instead of saves time. I did not know all of this after i began with Revit and I needed to decipher it by myself. Architects keep listening to how BIM will benefit everyone except them. They may not realize it may benefit them, and contemplate it an encumbrance. Regrettably everyone knows architects which use AutoCAD 14 and will say “whether it was adequate for An Artist to make use of as he designed the pyramids, then it is adequate for me. ” This option are often really fast and perform a very specific kind of work. They’re also very gradually losing share of the market, developing carpal tunnel and eventually they’ll find society will no longer have a necessity for their professional services. Seen worthwhile ink on vellum hands drafting recently? What about press-on letters, pin registration mylar, leroy lettering sets, or ruling pens? CAD really required off when Bob Rental property demonstrated a designer utilizing a system on “This Old House”. The hardware would be a Plastic Graphics workstation costing nearly $80Thousand and wasn’t a practical option at that time, however it produced a notion that resonated using the public. Not embracing CAD was the finish of a lot design firms. An Artist labored in 3D and colored. SKETCHUP Sketchup is becoming very popular lately among architects. These architects are smart enough to understand the need for color and 3D. It’s the work they do flow which i can’t stand. Most firms using Sketchup will also be using AutoCAD. So basically one group utilizes a design with Sketchup, another group utilizes a construction documents with AutoCAD. (More about AutoCAD later. ) Very little if any data reuse between your two groups. Additionally, it appears like it might be tough to model the inside and outside of a building in Sketchup. To obtain photo-realistic renderings in Sketchup, you require an add-on renderer. Still with Sketchup you are giving your customers sketches they are able to connect with, and that is a superb part of the best direction. Can Sketchup do layouts now? REVIT WORKFLOW In Revit you can begin modeling with walls, doorways and home windows or you may use their awesome mass modeling tools, extract volume and area data, and then parametrically attach the walls, floors, roofs, etc. Everything Sketchup can perform, Revit can perform better. In Revit, you get one database and all sketches and schedules emerge from it. You don’t have to draw a random line within the sand and say that’s a design drawing and that’s construction document. Both of them is one, progressing along together in perfect Zen. The truth is, does not the architect keep designing with the construction document phase? Most carry on doing it in to the construction phase. Revit makes it simple to achieve that. This can be a huge chance for profit in line with the efficiency from the Revit workflow versus the Sketchup / AutoCAD workflow. Versatility Among the best options that come with Revit isn’t readily apparent. It’s data versatility. For example In AutoCAD someone can create a door schedule. Presuming he’s a workplace standard, and some door understanding, he blasts this out, done! That schedule doesn’t have link with the work. Later if you erase a door in the plan, it’s still within the schedule. It’s also still around the wall elevation. With sufficient edits with time, the whole door schedule must be rechecked for coordination issues.
Gig on Fiverr March 7, 2018 bizadmin Do check out Write Blog Posts on This Blog, which I have created a gig on Fiverr. The above image was done by me and edited in Photoshop. By chance, I woke up at 4:30 am at the crack of dawn and decided to check emails for anything important. Also checked for blogging micro jobs to complete and found one. This blog will not be to where it is today without your support and constant patronage. I love writing and I guess this is the thing that I do best; instead of cracking my brains over long codes to debug. But I do have an admiration for those hard-core programmers who toil day and night to solve our problems. Well, I guess each to his or her own success and don’t compare. Everyone has their own skill sets and it is up to us to take massive action. Don’t envy others who are more successful or earn more than you. There are others who could barely put bread and butter on the table and there are those who live in the streets with no roofs over their heads. Just be contented of your abilities and be thankful for God’s grace and unmerited favour to bless us tremendously each day. Whatever skills you are lacking, there are always solutions to it and money can buy talent. Just like employing people smarter than you to work in your organisation, instead of feeling threatened. That’s my food for thought.