Comments on: Three Kittens: A Business Fable

By: Evelyn S. Angeles

Evelyn S. Angeles — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:33:16 +0000

Dear Sir, Nice story. I’m an event organizer and I have an ongoing bazaar at 6797 Ayala Ave. cor Rufino St., Makati. I’ve been in business for 25 years now, that’s half of my life. I also collect anything cat and am a cat breeder, (persian and himalayan).

I really like the message of the story. You don’t really have to sugarcoat or exaggerate your products and/or services to the dismay later on of your customer or client. I guess your credibility and integrity are far more important that the wealth you’ll accumulate because of deceit. God bless!

By: JP

JP — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:55:36 +0000

Great lesson! It is so true. Cheap tricks and promotions are just smoke and mirrors which hide the real value (or lack there of) of a service. Most of the time a gimmick is a means of compensating for lack luster products/services or a weak method underachieving marketers use to make up for a lack of promotional skill. Its so funny, you can always tell the quality of a product by how much ‘pushing’ it takes to sell it.

By: pohheng

pohheng — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:17:10 +0000

I tend to only agree partially. I have a business selling taiwanese food in Singapore and we save on “branding” because we were confident of our food. In the end, we do get lots of repeated customers but new first timers are much lesser. Therefore i think some gimmicks and promotions are still required to capture the “audience” before you can “sell” them your real value.

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By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:30:46 +0000

Thanks for entering the contest, Fitz!

I love the idea of a business fable, and bonus points for that cute kitchen picture (those always work, hah!). I’m glad success doesn’t depend on singing or dancing, because I’m horrible at both.

By: Fitz

Fitz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:01:46 +0000

Hi everyone. Thanks for the comments.

Anyhow, I don’t really know what’s causing the delay in loading. It’s actually fine on my end. Maybe it’s because I’m currently doing some backups of my blog. I’m preparing to transfer my hosting this week.

By: Jhoanna

Jhoanna — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:03:06 +0000

Fitz, are you using the WordPress super cache plugin? It will help speed up your blog.

By: Vic

Vic — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:51:07 +0000

That was a great story and an illustration of a natural good marketing strategy. We really need to consider what our customers really wanting for a product. Because they buy a product to consume…thats why they are called consumers.

By: Angel Cuala

Angel Cuala — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:06:09 +0000

This is a very interesting strategy, Fitz. I guess it’s really best when we should not only know our product, but also know what our customers want the most. I will stick this in my mind.

Off topic: I am not sure if it’s me who has a problem, but your blog is very slow when I opened it. I’ve been visiting your blog regularly, but this is the first time that it became slow.