What if you made a product that was wildly popular but your business wasn’t set up to make any money off of it? Suppose that millions of consumers were using what you made but because they were doing so in a manner different from what you had built your business to support, you were going bust? I think you know where I’m heading with this but let’s just make sure. Continue reading
Are You A Person?
The phone rang yesterday and out of that brief call comes a business thought. The person on the other end was calling a bookstore that used to have the same telephone number that my business now has. Obviously since I’ve had the number for over two years it’s been at least that long since the book store has had it but I get a call or two every month for them. It’s still in business, by the way – I’m not sure why they changed their number other than they moved to the next town. You’d think the search engines and phone books would have caught up by now. But that’s not the lesson. Continue reading
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How It’s Made
One of my favorite Canadian imports – besides hockey and Neil Young – is a quirky show called “How It’s Made.” You can see it on The Science Channel. Basically it shows you how lots of things both common and uncommon are created. Because today is Foodie Friday, and the Fourth of July, I’m embedding the clip on how hot dogs are made:
Yummy! You can find lots of clips on the show’s site.
But I’ll also ask you to think about a business question – do you have any sense of how the things your business produces are made? I mean, how well do you really understand the people and processes that are responsible for your economic health? I always felt like I should know enough about each person’s job so that I could provide guidance by asking good questions. That doesn’t mean I could, or wanted to, do their jobs. But I could do mine, which was to help them do theirs.
But enough business – on to a great holiday weekend!
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