I understand that I don't have the market to be a Walmart, it was just a
general observation (and hence tagged as off topic). Kind of like
noting that Warren Buffet, who is considered one of the top investers in
the nation, made his billions in the market but refuses to deal with
tech stocks, but the one person in the US who is richer than him is Bill
Gates who made his billions exclusively in the tech market.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
Peter R. wrote:
They have made billions by serving billions of customers.
Walmart and McDonalds only work on scale -- huge scale.
Lexus and Bose are not mass market.
And neither are many of you on this list.
In the DSL arena, the combined 300 ISPs selling in BellSouth territory
in its hey-day never had more than 3% marketshare. Today, they have
less than 1%.
So you are not going to be Walmart. You CAN be Nordstroms.
You can be Bose.
Regards,
Peter Radizeski
RAD-INFO, Inc.
Sam Tetherow wrote:
As a slightly off-topic aside: (those that don't want to listen to
my ramblings can safely stop here :)
You look at brands like Lexus and Bose and think, these are the
people I need to be like. These companies have made millionaires.
But what I find interesting is that companies like Walmart and
McDonalds who do live in the quantity, not quality world have made
billionaires. The trick seems to be, if you can somehow manages to
be the cheapest and do it right you can make a boat load of money and
it doesn't have to be at the expense of the customer.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
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