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The Difference Between Acumen and Accruing

September 24, 2011 By 13 Comments



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Acumen and accruing. Two words that share a few letters, and yet are miles apart in every other sense.

Acumen means you have something of use; accruing means you’re in the process of gathering stuff that isn’t necessarily useful.

Acumen means you connect the dots between idea, execution and success; accruing means you’re more concerned with collecting the dots as opposed to connecting them.

Acumen means you know your shit; accruing means you think anything below a certain number is shit.

In other words, someone with acumen will always – ALWAYS – beat someone that prefers accruing.

Because the numbers that come as a result of acumen far outstrip any importance that the simple act of accruing numbers offers.

Something to keep in mind when you next want results in anything you do…

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Leon
Leon 151 pts

G'Day Anne,

Danny Brown showed great acumen in providing you with the opportunity to blog about how one accrues

great hostility for misusing acumen and accruing.

I can't wait for you to take to task the ignorant idiots who say reticent when they mean reluctant..

As I keep repeating,:the purpose of communication is to convey meaning. The words are the carriage and grammar is the lubricant that keps the wheels turning.

Regards

Leon

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HowieSPM
HowieSPM 2357 pts

But I was told by DannyBrown social media is all about Fans and Followers. That the more I have the more successful I will be.

Accruing is the bane of email, social, and mobile marketing. Any form/platform that allows a consumer to sign up for future contact is accruing. And over time accruing drowns out the platform, the message, etc. And there is a reason the accruing platforms are the cheapest to use. The more blogs in my RSS reader or email alerts the fewer % I read. The more companies I sign up for email or mobile alerts the more they all become spam. The more people I connect with on Twitter and Facebook etc the lower the likelihood I see a post.

The key is how to show acumen to break through this. I go to this blog and some others manually. I go to one Facebook Brand page manually. It's because they have acumen.

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DannyBrown
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HowieSPM Shame that so many companies put so much stock into the numbers that don't really mean that much, huh, mate?

My latest conversation: 5 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 1: Defining Your Hub

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LucretiaPruitt
LucretiaPruitt 104 pts

I get the gist - but the grammar police in me needs you to edit this to something that compares apples to apples.
Your choice:
"The difference between possessing acumen and accruing ___________" or "the difference between acumen and accrual."
Can't compare a noun to a verb there my friend.

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DannyBrown 2790 pts moderator

LucretiaPruitt Sorry miss - I'll bare that in mined for future reverence. ;-)

My latest conversation: 5 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 1: Defining Your Hub

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easyP
easyP 128 pts

Eh Danny - clever little post.

Line to remember...

"Because the numbers that come as a result of acumen far outstrip any importance that the simple act of accruing numbers offers."

Still on Genesis over here I see.

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DannyBrown 2790 pts moderator

easyP Cheers, sir. This is actually a custom design built from scratch on WordPress, no framework involved. :)

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easyP 128 pts

DannyBrown

Not Genesis or Headway - with you.

I'm a few posts behind and thought that I might catch up, then I saw the title of your previous post...

"Lessons From An A**hole"

I don't know.

Where have all the quality websites gone? LOL

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