The story goes that after one of Ludwig van Beethoven’s performances, several people were offering him their congratulations, when one woman commented, “I wish God had bestowed me with such genius.” “It isn’t genius, madam, nor is it magic.” Beethoven replied. “All you have to do is practice on your piano eight hours a day for 40 years.” Quote from Nan Russell’s article.

Nancy writes about the “plug and play” society and how people want results immediately and are often not willing to wait for the rewards of hard work. This can be a disaster in business which we at Knowledge-finder.com can relate to on a personal level. We have had to wait for better results in the search engines. Luckily we are not part of the instant gratification club so we will do fine.

How about you? Are you willing to take the time to allow results to become reality or do you want instant gratification.

Read: It Takes Time - by Nan Russell.

How many people do you know who write about things like “The Typology of Stalkers”? Sam Vaknin not only writes about the mind of the stalker, he is the author of “Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited”.

Ever wonder what types of personalities stalkers have?

According to Sam there are four different types of stalker personalities.

Read more here: Typology of Stalkers or if you enjoy his writing do an article search for “Sam Vaknin” here and read some more great articles by this brilliant man.

Even web sites need coaches. Philippa Gamse caught my eye when she submitted an article to knowledge-finder.com titled “How Does Your Website Make Me Feel?” Having built a few sites including this EKF Blog with my partner Peter Faber, we understand how important a welcoming web site is to keep peoples attention. If a business doesn’t have some sort of appeal and flavor folks will just not get it and leave.

I read this morning in a forum that the average time people spend on a web site before deciding to stay or go is only 13 seconds or less! In other words, you have only 13 seconds or less to make your guest feel welcome!

Philippa Gamse is a web site strategy consultant and professional speaker. She helps small and medium sized businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations create powerful, differentiated and emotionally intelligent Websites.

Aaron is one of the owners of knowledge-finder.com and this is his personal column.