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Re: World Wide Wake
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fred White <[log in to unmask]>
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fred White <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 3 Nov 2003 07:13:05 -0700
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On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 02:47 AM, Christian Lheureux wrote:

> The 3000 was extraordinarily successful, based on a 70s-vintage
> marketing
> concept, i.e. an excellent product offering (MPE, Image, and so forth),
> supplemented by some moderate sales knack from the various sales
> forces,
> barely enough to sustain a reasonable income level, at least enough to
> guarantee a self-sustainable business model.
>
> Now that paradigm is outdated, and has been for quite a while. As other
> marketing concepts show us, it's not technical excellence that drives
> sales,
> it's the other way around, i.e. profit derived from strong sales
> driving R&D
> and product improvement.

Not when the profit goes to support.

FW

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