There are dozens of media trade publications and hundreds (thousands?) of blogs writing about the media business. For the past six months, nearly all of them have adopted this “world is coming to an end” mentality that seems to leave little choice for anyone selling online media but to drink heavily and abandon all hope of making your numbers. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, digital media, Helpful Hints, What's Going On
Change is a bogeyman. Change is, in many peoples’ eyes, a circle of Hell even Dante couldn’t fathom. Business models are crumbling. For 
years, the print business thought of advertising as gravy because the subscription revenue was so lucrative. Charge for the content – what people will pay for it covers the cost of distribution. Things were going along quite well. Until they changed. Oh yeah – it gets better
Filed under Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
I’m not a Luddite, by any means. That should be obvious based on the field in which I consult (digital media) since the business of digital media itself didn’t really exist 15 years ago.
Mozilla has released Firefox 3 and it’s great. Mostly. Except it breaks things. My site looks funny in it – I know other sites have had issues too. Some folks’ CMS refuses to work properly with it. I’m sure there are applications that are a bit screwy too.
Sometimes in our zeal to make things better, we screw up some of the things that are working well. We used to hear that at the NHL when we’d tinker with rules, etc. and I know Mozilla released enough betas that we could have tested. But I do think there are times when maybe we need to think about leaving well enough alone. As my friend the hit midget (for another post) reminded me – New Coke wasn’t exactly a huge improvement.
So here’s the business thought. I’m not saying we shouldn’t continue to improve but sometimes we change up our businesses to make smallish incremental gains. Maybe we’re blowing up the good stuff to fix the stuff that’s not working?
Filed under Consulting, Thinking Aloud
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