Saturday, July 18, 2009

It's been a long time since my last entry.

For the readers/followers, I apologize. I am rounding out my next topic and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I am having writing it. Should be up very soon so be on the look out.

I have a parting question for you. Does competitive balance belong in a loving relationship? Now, before you curse me out and say hell-no; I challenge you to think (or for some of you, rethink) the question before answering it. The question does not read "Should we compete?" It reads does competitive balance belong in the relationship?

For those of you who don't know what competitive balance is, I'll give you an example:

It's when a store or distributor sells a type of product by several manufactures. All have the same claim to do what ever the product is designed to do. One is really no better than the other, but people will buy because they feel they have a choice in the matter. Usually, store/distributor will buy from one product line to another knowing that the sell for that product itself will continue to move off the shelves.

Until there is a super product that comes in and wipes all other competing products off the shelf because it performs that much better than the rest. Selling out of one product name as opposed to selling out of the others at the same time removes the competitive advantage from the store/distributor and the store will not sell the super product, but will continue to sell the flawed products because of the volumes of units that's to sell is a benefit to the store (regarding the volume of units sold).

I will reveal my point to this question later, but I ask you to at least ponder the question. Who knows, I may call on you to help with a response/debate/defense.

Until our next connection, be well & treat others the same.