Dude, You Killed Your Job...

[Truthmatters]

they do not kill small competitors.

Small competitors fail due to a failed business plan.

Smart small business owners develop a plan to be able to compete.

And when you have an oligopoly, smart small business owners develop a plan to capitaliuze on the oligopoly.

But my guess is that this is way too deep for you to comprehend.

How can a mom and pop EVER compete in recieving good prices from suppliers when they do not buy in the large quanitites?

you are showing how naive you are on the topic.

Are you not aware of the fact that there are just as many "mom and pop" suppliers that dont get to supply the big boys?

It is all about having a sound business model.

Something I really dont think you know much about.

Oh really ?

then you should be able to prove that claim with some facts right?

 

[whitehall]

Somehow the left has been convinced that there is a magic world of "green jobs" and all we have to do is follow Barry Hussein to the promised land. Few people on the left seemed to care that Barry called the US Chamber of Commerce a "sinister tool of the republican party" or that he hired a communist who once led an arson and looting rampage to be on his green jobs board. Three years later we see that there aren't any green jobs and the green movement is part of the socialist revolution started way back when Barry's mentor Bill Ayers was bombing the Pentagon.

 

[Jarhead]

yeah more MONEY to the supplier

would it not be smarter to try to develop a contract with a mom and pop supplier that cant sell its product to the big boys?

You know...that is sort of how it works TM.....why do you ignore that?

 

[Katzndogz]

How can a mom and pop EVER compete in recieving good prices from suppliers when they do not buy in the large quanitites?

Of course they can. They just have to offer something the big business doesn't.

you mean a....dare I say....differential?

That is the key to success as a buisness owner as well as an employee.

Present a differential and you will succeeed.

Most of the time you find people going to a small business rather than a big business is because of customer service. Something else lost in the entitlement society. A small business is NOT entitled to customers because it opened it's doors. It has to have something to offer that isn't offered by someone else.

 

[Jarhead]

How can a mom and pop EVER compete in recieving good prices from suppliers when they do not buy in the large quanitites?

you are showing how naive you are on the topic.

Are you not aware of the fact that there are just as many "mom and pop" suppliers that dont get to supply the big boys?

It is all about having a sound business model.

Something I really dont think you know much about.

Oh really ?

then you should be able to prove that claim with some facts right?

what do you mean "fact"?

Do you deny that there are thousands of successful small businesses out there? Do I need to prove it with fact? Fact...there are thousands of successful small businesses in the Empire State Building alone......THOUSANDS.....some floors have over 100 on each floor.

Do you deny the logic opf having a sound business model is warranted to acheiuve success? Do I need to prove that with fact?

 

[Jarhead]

Of course they can. They just have to offer something the big business doesn't.

you mean a....dare I say....differential?

That is the key to success as a buisness owner as well as an employee.

Present a differential and you will succeeed.

Most of the time you find people going to a small business rather than a big business is because of customer service. Something else lost in the entitlement society. A small business is NOT entitled to customers because it opened it's doors. It has to have something to offer that isn't offered by someone else.

As a recruiter I tell people they key to getting an intervfeiw is to search with a differential. Double clicking on Monster board gets you nowhere.

As a recruiter I tell people the key to getting an offer is to present a differential on the interview. Simply saying what everyone else says gets you nowhere.

As a business planner I tell my clients that their number one goal is to find a differential to market so they can penetrate the marketplace.

Differential....the key ingredient to success.

 

[Jackson]

they do not kill small competitors.

Small competitors fail due to a failed business plan.

Smart small business owners develop a plan to be able to compete.

And when you have an oligopoly, smart small business owners develop a plan to capitaliuze on the oligopoly.

But my guess is that this is way too deep for you to comprehend.

How can a mom and pop EVER compete in recieving good prices from suppliers when they do not buy in the large quanitites?

Of course they can. They just have to offer something the big business doesn't.

And many times that is trust in the owners. Knowing who you are dealing with and they take the time to back their product and service means a lot.

 

[Katzndogz]

I have opened, built and sold a number of small businesss. Sometimes, I have gone back when the buyer has failed, to build it back and sell it again.

 

[Truthmatters]

Statistics about Small Business from the Census Bureau

twice as many jobs come from small business.

Our policy should reward them and not huge corporations

 

[Cuyo]

I have opened, built and sold a number of small businesss. Sometimes, I have gone back when the buyer has failed, to build it back and sell it again.

Not everyone has the intelligence or clout to start and/or operate a small business, in fact most people do not.

The economy is changing and the direction its changing is throwing these people to the wolves... And you think somehow indicating that some folks are doing ok, makes this situation ok.

 

[Jarhead]

I have opened, built and sold a number of small businesss. Sometimes, I have gone back when the buyer has failed, to build it back and sell it again.

I sold my first company after 5 years. I built it up form scratch in a very competative marketplace.
I started off as a salesman turned sales manager of one of the largest firms in my industry in NYC . After 13 years there they were purchased by the largest company in the industry in the country and I left and started my own. Within 2 years we had 2 locations. We had over 5 million in revenue after 4 years. I sold only becuase I needed to separate from my partner who was dipping in the receipts.

My dfferential that I offered had nothing to do with prices. It had to do with guarantees of satisafaction. It also had to do with my offeriing my services for free or cost to new companies who were strapped for cash....but that was not the key differential.....the guarantees of satisafaction were the key.

It is difficult to start a business from scratch. If it were easy all would do it.

 

[Truthmatters]

Unfettered markets (what paul wants) are the corporate dream.

They are free to crush and buyout startups.

Its not good for society

 

[paulitician]

I like what Clint Eastwood said in the movie 'Unforgiven.'..."Deserves got nothing to do with it." No one deserves or is entitled to anything. And that's where 'Generation Gimme' has it wrong. I blame their parents though.

 

[Truthmatters]

Humans deserve not to starve or freeze for lack resources.

All you have to do is have a society deside this and it becomes true.

You want a society where they are left to starve for the sake of business

 

[Jarhead]

Statistics about Small Business from the Census Bureau

twice as many jobs come from small business.

Our policy should reward them and not huge corporations

that is becuase there are thousands times more "small companies" than large ones.

Your problem is you look at "stats" without understanding them.

Do you know about oligopolies?

Are you aware that without those ultra large "anchor" companies, the smaller peripheral companies would struggle to succeeed?

Example...

Best Buy advertises a Dell computer...the ad cost 25K and it gives all of the amenities of the computer.

A man walks into ma and pa comuter store and sees that exact computer and kows all about it becuase he read the best buy ad.

He buys the computer from ma and pa becuase they were able to match the price (and still make a nice profit) becuase they also offer him "personalized service" becuas ethey are local and not some big company where youmust ship it to Kalamazoo.

So ma and pa made a profit without spending a penny on advertising.

 

[Jarhead]

Humans deserve not to starve or freeze for lack resources.

All you have to do is have a society deside this and it becomes true.

You want a society where they are left to starve for the sake of business

99.9% of Americans DONT starve becuase they have companies they earn livings from.

 

[Truthmatters]

what is the current poverty rate in the country?

 

[Jarhead]

what is the current poverty rate in the country?

it would be a lot worse if we did not have capitalism.

What I dont get about you is you ask questions....you get the answers and then you go to another unrelated question and not respond to the answers given.

Should I assume that means you agree with the answers?

 

[Jarhead]

do you nderstand the concept of an oligopoly and why the anchor firms are a MUST for success for the smaller competitors?

 

[paulitician]

"No one's gonna give you anything in this world." That's what American parents used to teach their children. Now they teach them the exact opposite. And the Entitlement attitude may have worked for awhile but those days are now over. $16 Trillion and growing in Debt has put an end to that fantasy. We're broke. 'Generation Gimme' is gonna have to learn to deal with that. The well has run dry.