Our personal shopping and education starts with Google or Amazon. YouTube currently uploads 20 hours of new video clips per minute: and increasing! Our kids (and many globally) learn whatever they want to on their mobile devices. In poor countries, they then use social media to organize protest-riots.
Google this New York Times article: “Finding Ways to use Big Data to Help Small Shops”. Or, click here:
Continue reading 4. The Big Data Profit Train is Leaving the Station
Distributors with “Line-Item, Profit Analytics (LIPA) Management” capability can:
Continue reading 3. Let a Thousand Profit-Improvement Innovations in Distribution Bloom
I’ve written 34 Insights to date. They have been postcards from the front lines where Pioneering Distributors are uncovering hidden gold using Line Item, Proftit Analytics (LIPA).
Don’t underestimate the amount and pace of the forthcoming innovations of AmazonSupply. Read our latest “Insight” (below) and then the support, deep-dive exhibit. If you aren’t stunned and looking at AS in a whole new light, I’ll be very surprised.
The news on AmazonSupply.com will continue to accelerate. They have recently increased their items for sale into 17 (and climbing?) “vertical” distribution channels in pursuit of “business-to-business” (B2B) sales. On May 8th Forbes Magazine published an article: “Amazon’s Wholesale Slaughter”, which was long on short-term hype, but short on long-term vision.
Because Amazon is the most innovative and channel-changing juggernaut ever, what we see today at AmazonSupply is just a beginning. Their mission statement suggests more to come: “to sell everything needed to rebuild civilization”.
How will AmazonSupply.com pressure your 100-year-old channel’s service-model and rules?