Why aren’t more people shopping on Walmart’s website?
Our 2¢: Because of the Walmart brand.
But hey, let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Let’s start slow, with the image featured in this post (screen shot via Wall Street Journal).
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What smart banks know.
They know their biggest problem.
It’s not a lack of technology.
It’s not a lack of the right product.
It’s who they are.
Just look around: There’s a really strong feeling among young Canadians about banks.
You need to pay.
“You need to pay people something for their attention. You need to give them something of value. Something they want to know or use somehow.”
That’s not us talking. That’s Tomas Kellner from GE talking.
Will your DNA be the end of you?
“If we don’t upgrade our DNA, we’ll be done. We’ll be the next Blackberry or Nortel: a has been.”
That’s basically what Tobi Lutke, aka the CEO of Shopify, aka the keeper of the flame at one of Canada’s best startups, said to his team not that long ago, according to the report in today’s Globe and Mail.
Where does time stop for you?
Your parents, folks like them, and older generations, they love living in the so-called real world.
Here’s what we mean by that: Chances are that your parents and folks like them feel most alive when they’re driving their fave car, preparing their fave dish, or really doing their fave you-name-it in the real world.
You don’t always have to start from scratch.
Let’s say you have an idea for a product/service/startup.
You’re all excited to start telling people about it.
But then it hits you: The name. You don’t have a name for it.