On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 23:45, Anne Wilson wrote: > > In the end, lost sales do count. Mine alone will do nothing, but the more > often we can tell them that we have gone to a competitor who does better and > the sooner they will take notice. >
This is true - and has held true for quite a number of years - but do you really think that some executive upper-management marketing dickhead that spends his days selling or playing golf is going to truly give a sideways crap about US? Nah...they're in it for the money, not to make people happy (except for themselves)...it's really too bad, but this is the type of market that has developed. For the once "bitch and moan" they get, they sell a million widgets of their product - whether or not it works - it's the sales that matter. Sad, but true. > > Agreed - but for those of us that don't have those skills perhaps the most > useful thing we can do is make them aware of the demand, and if we can also > make them aware of the fact that a competitor has done something it will all > help. > > I think it's time to start a 'needling' party. > > Anne > ---- Well, most of us don't really need the skills, but learning a FEW skills is what the marketers DON'T want - they WANT to keep the public STUPID and IGNORANT about PRODUCT. That's how they sell. Why do you think that Norton/Symantec makes the sales they do? They DEPEND on the public being dumb enough to purchase $150 software packages because the end-user doesn't know enough about maintaining their own computer. They don't like the public to be smart or savvy. That's the clincher. And mind you, the public IS getting a bit more savvy about what they're buying, what they're using and what's on the market...within the next two years, you will see a major change in the way products are marketed and manufactured...but we can only wait and see (and I've been waiting for more than 10 years!) -- Wed Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 -------------------------------- A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. -- B. Franklin
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