Buisness.

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Developing a good buisness philosophy should be a good field.

As a consumer the first thing I look at is quality, then price, then style.

As a seller,… I’m overmotivated to sell the product then secondarily help the costomer to the best of my products.

It seems to me that developing a name of trust by giving people my top three is what it takes to get the sellers motivation.
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As a mass convieance store (wall mart, target),… the philosophy is have a great selection with the strong point of consolidation (space, employees, and high turn over rate items.

As a specialty store, I can get educated on the products they need, and sell more of the most worth while products. Then options for personaliztion.

Yet both of these strengths are compramized. The mass convienance store sells what’s cheaper for them. The specialty store gets deals on whole lines instead of spacific products.

Both of these also have a hard time listening to the constomers desires, and depends on learning from the corperations they buy from.
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the small town store,… or mom and pop buisness. They are more likely to sell what they have a passion for, and have open discussions with costomers. In this they learn from use, and from a desire to learn. They sell baced on a limited ability to buy, and want to make the best decision for the buck.
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walmart is good for meaningless trivial items. Specialty stores are good if you have a consumer report article on what you want. Mom and pop stores can be comparable for price.

If you know the market, the market has to adapt to the costomer. Or you can build a name of trust with the costomer by combinning strengths. Limiting what you sell to quality and duability then price (quality and durability should outdo price because of longetavity). Thus creating the market demand.

The internet should be the best place to do this. If you eliminate store fronts for ware houses,… and mass shipping for deals with UPS. Then the internet should be the best place to sell products. Maybe consumer reports could have easy links to buy products.

The only issue is integrety.

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Market should, could, would. Bleh.

People buy what they are ‘shown’ to buy. Lets take Coca-Cola as an example here; there was a few test done on the public to see whether they preferred the taste of Coca-Cola over ‘no-frills’ or ‘unlabled’ cola brands. Most couldnt tell the difference, many liked one over the other. It was a fairly even outcome. The difference? Price and advertising. Coca-Cola spends god knows how much on its advertising campaigns and reaps the rewards in profits over the non-advertising but cheaper ‘no-frills’/‘unlabeled’ brands.

There’s a few lessons to be learnt here whether you like it or not.

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Advertising??? Controlling brain space?
The brain works on assosiation. As you think up certain things (soda) the brain will link parrallel associations, and all the ideas you had about their advertisement. So associating sex with a product just gets you to associate yes with the product. Yet, if you are objective in your viewing, instead of mentally drained from work passive, you will have different associations.

It’s more of a thing of, out of sight out of mind.

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what about how people associate truth with half truth manipulations. It sounds true untill you read the fine print, and you learn to trust no one. So manipulation of feelings is the next step.

The only statistics you can trust are ones that say we 50% better then the competeion at doing ???. Then you have to assume you need something that is better, for it can be 160% better then what you need. Then you have to believe that they are only listing the percent values of the important issues.

There are too many ways to manipulate people with half truths. So in this people see fact quoters as haveing something to hide. No one has been able to do it unbiasly enough to build a name on it. Go figure. The integrety of the people in charge is very questionable. If you think the tobbacco corperations are the only corrupt ones,… well your kidding yourself.

Then what about how this distracts peoples mindsets. If they buy everything by how the advertisement makes them feel,… well then most of their decision making process will be guided by gut feelings,… or lack their of. So when people buy stuff that is bad for the enviorment, it’s because they have been brain washed by limiting their perspective,… and sold on the idea of a relationship of convienance.