If a business does not respect you or want your business go across the street to one that does. If the business wants you to meet their needs they should be paying you. The only businesses/schools/institutions I have seen doing this have had subsidization. They were concerned about the big donors not you.
Interesting article about NFL’s business model.
https://www.sbnation.com/2017/9/19/16314082/nfl-ratings-colin-kaepernick-los-angeles-rams-owners-money
One of the points is that ticket sales are the smallest fraction of TV revenues that the individual game attendee’s needs don’t matter.
Applying that operating a political commentary website, I’m curious about how much revenue individual members bring in relative to advertising.
Good point, Dave.
Isn’t a TV watcher an attendee in someway? Ratings go down then revenue goes down to.
The other thing I wonder is how is the money spent in a business. If there is a “hole in the bucket” more water does not fix the problem.
I can’t possibly imagine which business inspired this post.
If there’s a hole in the bucket, with what shall we fix it? It gets circular after that.
DocLor, I agree you can’t imagine something like that but you could take some screen shots, right?
“If there’s a hole in the bucket, with what shall we fix it?”
A person of the right caliber, DocLor. Maybe a person who is into shamelessly plugging himself/herself. The situation is fluid so it is hard to tell.
it gets rather repetitive and dull. can we just stop bashing the caf?
I actually was thinking more along the lines of the NFL and NASCAR than the caf. Both are abandoning their base and suffering the consequences.
Blondie, I like to go at the principle than a specific thing. One could think why do people stay in dead end relationships. People often complain about things but don’t move.
There is also the need to know when sticking things out is helpful. Because sometimes things do change.
Sometimes it has to do with the time or money invested. You hope it will turn around. After a while you just have to face facts that it is a lost cause. I have done this with NASCAR. I was a fan from 1972. I can’t begin to count the number of races I have been to much less listened to/seen on TV. When Brian France took the reigns, it was over. I followed along for a few years, but it got so painful I couldn’t continue. Unfortunately, I see the NFL following the same path.
I think we all believe in the free market. There are successes and there are losses. No one is too big to fail. Sears, Kmart, ToysRus, Blockbuster, etc all were doing well but failed to change with the times. Where are they now?
This is a discussion. This is not about one specific business. DocLor hinted at one business and I played along but don’t mistake this thread for that.
My conundrum these days is the business that I admire and use all the time has an owner that annoys me politically.
Amazon is an integral part of my life now and it annoys me that no competitor has risen up to challenge Mr Bezos. They keep doing many things very well for my daily life, yet seem to want to destroy my country in the long term.
A true conundrum.
TKC, you continue though because they provide a very good service. I think Amazon is a good example of business that delivers. If they lost orders, sent you the wrong product, or clearly lied in there advertising they would and should lose business.
One has patience with start-ups but there comes a point where a start-up is not a start-up. (BTW, when does that usually happen? 5 years out?)
Unfortunately, everything is politicized today. This was happening before Trump. It is just magnified now. My husband says all the time, if you start down this road you won’t watch another movie or listen to much music.
Yes, there are problems but how do we change things for the better.
There is the other thing to think about. Can we really complain if we are subsidizing the thing we hate?
I just want peace and quiet…meaning I’m happy as long as I get the product I’m interested in without political crap being “being thrown in for free”. I agree with TKC regarding ambivalence toward Jeff Bezos, but my day-to-day Amazon experience is politics-free.
Same for the concerts I choose to see…I know many of the artists are super libs but as long as they “shut up and sing” I’m happy. Willie Nelson was in town last week and Tony Bennett is coming next month…I like their music, but refuse to see them because I know they make a habit of lecturing the audience. Which is a shame because this is probably the last opportunity to see them given their advanced ages.
Yep.
When I was younger and asked the why question, as in why people don’t “exit” the unfulfilling, contrary, bad relationships or leave bad jobs, etc. I was told it’s because
“The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.”
I would add another reason is, complacency.
How to change things? I think the only way is to begin locally. Live “as if”, which will ultimately result in the creation of it; at least local to you.
I’m wondering if people might not have an alternative, and so that’s why they don’t switch? Or they hope things will change?
People also make excuses. “I just caught them on a bad day.”