{"id":8021,"date":"2023-07-07T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichetwins.com\/?p=8021"},"modified":"2023-07-31T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:28:39","slug":"stop-being-a-busy-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichetwins.com\/stop-being-a-busy-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"#19 | Stop Being a Busy Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
About a year ago I became obsessed <\/strong>with getting a \u2018.edu’ backlink for The Flexible Worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My link profile was pretty much nonexistent. So why not swing for the fences?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I knew a link-bait article with original research was my best bet, but I had no idea what to write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of trying to pull a topic out of thin air, I decided to go spend some time on university websites – specifically in the student resource sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Very quickly a trend started to emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nearly every site I visited had a dedicated Microsoft Teams page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only is Teams under my site\u2019s topical authority umbrella, I already had a number of high ranking articles covering it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ok, we\u2019re on to something.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n But what original research could I possibly produce covering Microsoft Teams?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to hanging out on university websites…<\/p>\n\n\n\n This time I had to poke around a bit longer, but another trend revealed itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many of the supportive YouTube videos had comments from students asking about Teams mobile data usage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a capped mobile data plan when I was younger* and I remember how much attention I paid to stuff like this. If a particular app drained all my data, I was very intentional about when and how often I\u2019d use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Fun Fact: Back in the day when Mike and I were on our shared family data plan, Mike used to consume a month\u2019s worth of data in a week. No exaggeration. He\u2019d nuke my entire family\u2019s data without bating an eye. Criminal behavior\u2026should have been locked up for it. Years later, when we were off on our own, he called me to see if I\u2019d join a shared data plan with just him to keep costs down. My response: \u201cAre you fu*king kidding me?\u201d <\/em>\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I performed my own search for how much data Teams uses on mobile, I found varying results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On top of this inconsistency, nearly every article used a data point without citing where the data point came from, or how it was even derived.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After thinking on it some more I decided to conduct a series of one-hour Teams trial tests between my PC and my iPhone under varying audio, video, and presenting conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I performed my own search for how much data Teams uses on mobile, I found varying results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On top of this inconsistency, nearly every article used a data point without citing where the data point came from, or how it was even derived.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After thinking on it some more I decided to conduct a series of one-hour Teams trial tests between my PC and my iPhone under varying audio, video, and presenting conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n
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