Friday, May 26, 2006

Life 2.0 - Rich Karlgaard

How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness

My blogging notes, quotes, and thoughts as I read:

Labor costs will stay flat or fall as the world absorbs the labor force of China, India and in the future the rest of the 'third world'.

Broadband Internet has finally brought about the 'death of distance' era. Instead of following the railway to find a place to settle or build a business, we just need to follow wherever there is a fibre optic cable.

Ogden, Utah.

Printingforeless.com
dot-comming the printing business. You can only expand your business sales area physically by so much before a decision must be made to continue expansion by physical salesforce or online.

If you have other small shops with the same 'manufacturing' capabilities as the sales territories overlap, there is classic competition. Online, you can aggregate the spare capacity of the presses to online customers. Provide the needed customer service and prep work, farm out only the printing.

Web commerce needs to grow organically, with low cash burn. Take the time to find customers and nurture them and grow organically.

The 2000s, The Decade of Cheap. The Cheap Revolution.

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