I’d like a bit of advice
How many times have you heard that? Maybe not in those exact words, but it’s immensely valuable to get just a snippet of good advice from someone who’s been there before, who’s an expert in the field or maybe just has an informed opinion. How many times does it help when answering a hard question or making a tough decision? That’s not to run down its bigger-sized counterpart: a lot of advice. But that’s easy, you ring up an expert and you go and spend plenty of time getting it really right. There are people set up to do this, just Google it or open the yellow pages.
But a bit of advice? If you’re a real specialist and you’re paid to give advice, you want to give lots of it. You’re probably paid by the hour and its better for you to hand out your advice in big dollops of time. It just isn’t economic to do it in small quantities. But hold on a minute, uneconomic to do it in small quantities? If we can work out a way to make micro-finance and micro-payments viable, why can’t the same be true for micro-advice?
Watch this space. With a lot of hard work and a bit of inspiration, we think we may have a way to make it economic to give & get ‘a bit of advice’.