Tag: Duane Jones
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How soon they forget
Newspapers are mad that Google’s new AI has stopped linking to them, because Google links were a main source of subscribers. Before the web, papers didn’t rely on the Yellow Pages to gain subscribers. They CERTAINLY didn’t rely on competing papers! The Bugle didn’t wait for the Gazette to mention it. Newspapers sold their own…
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Antonym
I noticed a package of chocolate S’Mores in the grocery store. What about a S’Less? Spinach Cookies. Artichoke Chips. Limburger burger. Liver Krispies. Blood Pudding. Granola Bars. Oops, some of those aren’t fictional. Old-fashioned “health food” was nothing but S’Lesses. Not the best way to sell a basically good thing.
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More pointless bitching.
Today is pointless bitching day. I’m tired of being ORDERED to listen to all sides. First, it’s futile. People naturally seek encouragement and respect, NOT contempt and disgust. Second, it’s bad business. Persuaders of all sorts know that you can’t keep customers by hammering them with opposition. You have to start with pleasure and improvement.…
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Why businesses should NEVER…
It’s the oldest and most universal rule in selling and business. NEVER NEVER NEVER get into politics unless you’re a politician. NEVER NEVER NEVER get into religion unless you’re a preacher. If you’re selling anything else, cars or food or software, STRICTLY AVOID all political and religious teams. Don’t let anyone even SUSPECT that you’re…
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Maybe interesting?
The Spokane newspaper is turning itself into a nonprofit, operated by a foundation that is basically its editor. For more than a century the Cowles family owned the newspaper, downtown, and the “city” “government”. The nonprofit is supposedly divorced from Cowles. If this article can be believed, the nonprofit is a business, not a charity.…
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Postal employee GETS IT.
One of the post office employees in the USPS reddit section writes: = = = = = We no longer have overnight shipping? The best we have is 2 day “express”, which is the same price as overnight shipping was. At my facility now we also hold outgoing mail until the next day. I’m so…
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Easy to see, hard to see
Random thought that seems pretty good at the moment. Our main problem now is not monopolies on selling, it’s monopolies on buying. (Yes, I know it’s called a monopsony, but that’s an Economist Word and I won’t use it.) A monopoly on buying is unfamiliar because most people don’t experience it. It only affects the…
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Never too late for the Right Thing
Several public-facing federal agencies have been taking the Canadian path to handle the psychopaths. Like Trudeau and Carney in Canada, they’re resolutely maintaining a good attitude toward the public even while the psychopath chops and whips their agency. In fact this is more than good behavior. It’s damn near saintly behavior, reminiscent of the early…
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Stop blaming the voters.
Democrats have been smashing their own voters for 40 years. When Trump came along and tried to please and respect the working class, the Democrats blamed the stupid Deplorable Low-Information voters. Poets and artists and composers and journalists have been turning out grotesque horrible SHIT for more than 40 years, and loudly insulting their own…
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It’s all Duane Jones
When you favor or oppose an action for reasons that don’t align 100% with Team A or Team B, it’s much harder to maintain your own opinion. I had this trouble with bitcoin. I oppose it for solid experience-based reasons. I was a bookkeeper for years, so I know how real ledgers work. Bitcoin is…
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Go with the influencers
Random thought, might be a halfway good correlation, not definite. Persuasion includes sharing your customer’s interests whether you mean it or not. Repooflicans and Democrats are opposite in this area. If you want to know what youngsters are interested in, watch the influencers. Right now the influencers of both genders are completely traditional. Male influencers**…
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Firm rule until 2016
Media are noting that Tesla fans are disillusioned with their perfect car and its perfect cult leader. Shouldn’t be a surprise. Getting involved in unnecessary disputes was ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS strictly forbidden by ALL rules of persuasion and salesmanship and advertising, from the New Testament to Dale Carnegie to Duane Jones. Boost the advantages of…
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What did they gain?
Still thinking in terms of Salesmanship and Sampling the Product and Test Drives. Since 2008 the Dems have been concentrating SOLELY on cultivating billionaires. They had a great product in Obama, but he ruined his own chances by approving TARP to enrich the billionaires. Hillary is a shitty product. Everyone knew it. Biden is even…
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Motivation to get better
One commenter on the endless and unfortunately boring parade of drug overdoses hits the BIG point. Ya know I don’t believe anyone wants anyone to die…however most of us are sick of it. We give them no motivation to get better and provide more services then most of us hardworking folks can afford. Motivation to…
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Think Olbermann is new?
Surveys in the ’50s showed Hudson customers were the most loyal of any brand. Hudson’s execs were also loyal and long-serving. Barit started just after the founding and became CEO in 1936, then stayed until the end in 1954. Styling head Frank Spring also stuck around. Here’s a rare picture of him having a bit…
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