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Old 01-24-2012, 05:09 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer View Post
Poor business people never seem to understand that it doesn't matter. A product is a product. A service is a service. Sales is sales. Management is management. Marketing is marketing. A buyer is a buyer. The economics of the business are the economics of the business.

Everything in this biz or any biz can be distilled into formulas and equations to be executed against.

With all your "experience" no one here believes you are anything but an average photographer... but you are definitely a sub par business person, hence your mediocre success even through the good years.
Seriously you are stupid.

Unless you are so big and employ the people under you with the knowledge, you need to know what people want. So lets just look at a few examples. And think of when they started.

Did Mark Zuckerberg understand the idea of people wanting to communicate with each other?
Did Bill Gates understand the concept of the programs people wanted?
Did Steve Job understand the idea of the PC people wanted?

And so the list goes on. When you reach the size of these companies, yes you're dead right. Still you need people under you to manufacture with the customer in mind, market understanding the market and sell understanding customers needs.
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