Doing Something Really Stupid
August 15th, 2014 // 10:00 am @ Mark Hamilton
EE the mobile phone provider also working under the brand name Orange, announced yesterday it will charge 50p if you want your customer service call answered as a priority. This is a decision that is extremely short-sighted and one a capable CEO would have stopped. It is worth remembering no one makes a stupid decision, […]
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The Power of Online Monopolies – UK Housing Market
June 19th, 2014 // 12:27 pm @ Mark Hamilton
Online advertizing is proving to be a massively profitable business, if one can achieve market dominance, and if one understands how in such a media business profit can be driven from such leadership. Rightmove and Zoopla, who between them have two thirds of all the time home seekers spend online, dominate the online advertizing of […]
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Great Organizations
January 29th, 2013 // 1:55 am @ Mark Hamilton
We recognize them when we see them, the truly great organizations, but what makes them great? I ordered some Olive Oil bowls through Amazon (But not actually from them) at 10am one morning, that night I was told they would be delivered the next day. I went to the gym for 2 hours the next […]
Read More »Caring & Ethical?
September 27th, 2011 // 5:03 pm @ Mark Hamilton
It has become trendy to portray your company as “caring & ethical”, and many companies are pursuing this persona. Sadly this is often pursued more through the use of public relations than actually being either caring or ethical. Companies have paid agencies to come up with trendy sounding names for this new theory of how […]
Read More »The Power of Apple
March 21st, 2011 // 3:39 pm @ Mark Hamilton
Starting a company on April 1st (April Fools Day) might seem like a joke, but 34 years later this company has sales of over $65,000,000,000, and $40,000,000 in cash, plus net profit margin of over 20%, no one could describe Apple’s success as a joke. The world’s largest technology company, a high level of profit, […]
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