Friday, May 1, 2015

Blog 5

  • LONG TAIL
      • Online business model
      • Selling large amounts of more obscure items to many people (e.g. Amazon, Netflix, HD Jukebox)
      • Small number of items, big impact (few large cities vs. several small ones)
      • Characteristics
        • High number of goods
        • Low cost of reaching markets
        • Ease of finding niche products
        • Flattening of the demand curve for mainstream hits
Tailoring to personal tastes and a wide variety of people. 
Cross subsidies is something that I get sucked into all too often, for example a free cell phone is offered online, but it comes with a contract that you have to pay a monthly bill on.

      • What’s free: any product that entices you to pay for something else.
      • Free to whom: everyone willing to pay eventually, one way or another
      • E.g. games, phone contracts, Amazon Prime, infomercials w/ shipping and handling

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