Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet
by padobson on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @12:35PM
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I spent a minute thinking about a product local to me that had the same appeal. I typed http://michiganlamb.com into the browser and discovered the concept is not uncommon.
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Yes, I think it's pretty common (here's one around me: https://locavoredelivery.com/ ), but still delivers value and can be a good business.
Reminds me that middlemen provide value in a lot of ways, even though they are hated and everyone thought the internet would disintermediate them all.
Yep. Even if it has never been easier for the maker/producer to setup their own Shopify store, it's still not enough.
Sure a decent website on shopify is better than nothing, but most likely only your current customers will go. You need extra skills to bring NEW customers: marketing, SEO, social media, etc.. and chances are that it's someone else that will have those skills.
Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet
by Simple_Guy on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @02:49AM
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the only people who hate middlemen are people who cannot into economics.
I typed in "Kentlamb.com" and found out Kent Lamb is the name of an attorney.
I remembered this comment when I noticed that the person that wrote the Dockerhub breach blog post [0] was a Mr. Kent Lamb. Baader-Meinhof?
[0] - https://success.docker.com/article/docker-hub-user-notificat...