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Spring Equinox
81° on my
balcony. I turned on the apartment A/C
this morning. This is the strangest winter I can remember. We need a minimum of
precipitation to keep the soil microbes alive and I fear we haven’t had enough.
Bad summer coming?
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This man is well educated, a world traveler from a Little Snake River ranching family. I am baffled by smart people getting sucked into lies. Of course, that would never happen to any of us, right?
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I'm angry! Copied from a blog:
The United States, once the repository of truth and freedom
preserving institutions, can betray all morality, all law, by intentionally
attacking a girl’s school in Iran for children of Iranian Guards in order to demoralize
the Iranian military force in hopes of reducing its ability to resist
Israeli-American unprovoked aggression against the Iranian nation. Trump and
Netanyahu opened their war by murdering 185 little girls.
Do governments so totally evil, so overflowing with
self-righteousness and self-justification for their crimes against humanity as
Washington and Israel have a right to exist? This is the question that is
before us. Yet the entire world, including Putin and Xi, refuse to confront the
question, preferring to defer to evil.
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Nice propaganda hit. Any
creditable third party verification? Any likelihood that school was intended as
a human shield ala Hamas in Gaza? Seems Irianian military forces are targeted
directly
.Let us remember Iranians
during the Iran/Iraq war (1980-1988) used their own children to clear mine
fields. Yes, those children became martyrs, so that was a noble thing. (sarcasm
intended)
Fence Me In
The downside might be the satellites going dark.
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Lithium
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The evaluation made after the find was the amount of lithium in the brine wasn’t high enough for economical viable extraction. Maybe a new evaluation is in order?
Dream on, Jon Caldera
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Larry Lambert (Virtual Mirage) recently posted about exploring places in Utah. During the 1970’s that was part of my sales/installation territory for a modular and pre-fab operation out of Ogden, Utah.
Long ago and far away long distance phone calls were expensive. Companies could enroll in a WATS line (Wide Area Telephone Service) with unlimited one line long distance phone calls, in or out, but not both. Patience, this has a point.
The sales rep for our competitor in the area was Max Phelps. We were friends. Max started his sales career hauling around coffins in a pickup to isolated Utah and Arizona towns and ranches selling direct to consumers. This was a common practice at the time, especially among Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints families. I remember him telling a story of being up in an oxygen tent beside a hospital bed showing his prospect a catalog while the grieving family filled the room. Motivated customer!
Fast forward a few months when Max and I were having lunch in a Kanab restaurant. I waited until he took a bite then asked, “How are you getting along with Mr. Blivet?”.
After choking, and taking a gulp of water, Max freely expressed himself on the subject of Mr. Blivet, with a sidebar directed at me.
Blivet: Two pounds of horseshit in a one pound bag.
As always, YMMV
Snort...good story, and I STILL have a pair of fencing pliers...sigh
ReplyDeleteThank you. Those pliers also work on bailing wire.
DeleteI suspect that WSF would confirm there is a flip side to the old 80/20 rule that states you get 80% of your business from 20% of your customers. You also get 80% of your problems from 20% of your customers but those are generally two different sets of 20%-ers. I'd actually go so far as to say it's more like 90/10 problem-to-customer ratio but whatever.
ReplyDeleteI found out that that firing those jackasses in the 90/10 group made my life easier and increased profit by reducing whatever it cost to do business with them, sometimes substantially. It also freed up time to work on existing relationships with the 20% that provided 80% of sales which they appreciated and also working with the 80% that provided 20% of sales. Some of those folks turned out to be dandy customers, they just hadn't been getting the right attention necessary to bring them into our fold.
OK, one more thing: That 80% bringing 20% of your business. Those guys might only buy one or two widgets a year, but don't get lazy and ignore them. At the end of the year, that 20% will make or break your year. To paraphrase WSF, people call you to buy a widget. Let them! Your competitor certainly will.
That comment should be in every marketing handbook. A powerful tool in any sales, if you have the guts to use it, is "NO". Like a stream, time flow, never to come back.
DeleteThank you, greatly appreciated. One of those customers I fired long ago died the other day. I had plenty good and sufficient reasons for saying "no more" and management agreed, so I got away with it. I was not pleased to hear of his demise nor especially saddened. He'd lived a long life and many people thought well of him. But, I read with interest the comments left on the memorial page put up by the mortuary and would note that only one vendor left condolences and only a couple of his former employees. This for a guy who was in the industry well over half a century. I'll leave it up to others to determine what that means.
DeleteIndicators there for those who recognize them. I've outlived most of my contemporaries in the car biz. News of their passing sometimes makes me sad and sometimes I just shrug. Reputations matter. Local sports icon John Elway comes to mind. He has invested heavily in car and recreation vehicle stores.Bronco sports fan praise him. People from the car biz? "The cheap prick never picked up a check".
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