Comments on: FABLES OF THE DECONSTRUCTION http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/06/26/fables-of-the-deconstruction/ E AHO LA'ULA Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:55:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: bryan http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/06/26/fables-of-the-deconstruction/#comment-25 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/06/26/fables-of-the-deconstruction/#comment-25 But every once in a while, you get a package that has 10 darn-near-perfect tools, and other times, the tool packages are on sale for $5. And your supplier only gets paid $1 per screwdriver and has to go out on the road to convince people to buy the screwdrivers so that they can pay for the tools and die they used to MAKE the screwdrivers. Not only that, but you don't really try new suppliers, instead relying on the same, tired recipes for screwdrivers (cough - Brittney Spears - cough) and spend all of your marketing budget promoting those screwdrivers. But suddenly, everyone's buying lathes. You could have distributed high-quality lathes (and gotten the supplier at a song - pun intended) when they weren't the hot tool. But now you go and sign up a supplier who produces "lathe-like" tools in the hopes of cashing in on the lathe craze. yeah, it's a perfect analogy. ;-) But every once in a while, you get a package that has 10 darn-near-perfect tools, and other times, the tool packages are on sale for $5. And your supplier only gets paid $1 per screwdriver and has to go out on the road to convince people to buy the screwdrivers so that they can pay for the tools and die they used to MAKE the screwdrivers.

Not only that, but you don’t really try new suppliers, instead relying on the same, tired recipes for screwdrivers (cough - Brittney Spears - cough) and spend all of your marketing budget promoting those screwdrivers. But suddenly, everyone’s buying lathes. You could have distributed high-quality lathes (and gotten the supplier at a song - pun intended) when they weren’t the hot tool. But now you go and sign up a supplier who produces “lathe-like” tools in the hopes of cashing in on the lathe craze.

yeah, it’s a perfect analogy. ;-)

]]> by: Mark http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/06/26/fables-of-the-deconstruction/#comment-26 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/06/26/fables-of-the-deconstruction/#comment-26 . . . I think you and I both need to stay away from the hardware store, Bryan. . . . I think you and I both need to stay away from the hardware store, Bryan.

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