Fishing Season

[Rebecca Loos]

working like a true business is hard, as it helps then to be a true business. What do you call a true business? A business with an ever-changing pool of clients, a business where you have to do all the marketing/advertising yourself?

Then clearly I am not a true business and I have no desire to be one, thank you very much. Very happy working with agents to find me work and get the client to pay the invoices

[threaded]

Most real businesses have a small selection of clients, usually one or two big accounts, and they work for them for years and years and years.

As an example when that last bit of British Leyland finally realised it was dead with the consequent knock on to its suppliers. If the suppliers had many customers who were constantly changing it wouldn't have mattered to them would it?

[DodgyAgent]

This is a new one on me

Most real businesses have a small selection of clients, usually one or two big accounts, and they work for them for years and years and years.

As an example when that last bit of British Leyland finally realised it was dead with the consequent knock on to its suppliers. If the suppliers had many customers who were constantly changing it wouldn't have mattered to them would it?

This is a new one on me threaded, what do you mean by a "real business"

I always thought that a business neede to make money to be success ful

[threaded]

I was replying to rebecca

[DodgyAgent]

I was replying to rebecca

apologies threaded

[Rebecca Loos]

Well Threaded you could argue that Leyland was then behaving not like a real business. A real business is like a plumber, for example, or a shop, a company that relies on its good name + advertising exposure to get a name for itself.

Leyland, yeah, whatever, don't tell me they were behaving like a proper, competitive business then. It's like those companies that only work for the public sector, getting contracts through greasing the appropriate wheels - not real business IMO

[threaded]

Well, if you keep slicing things off that are not real businesses then what do you have left?

[wendigo100]

It's like those companies that only work for the public sector, getting contracts through greasing the appropriate wheels - not real business IMO

And why not? The public sector is still a market to be exploited.

I think you'll find that wheel-greasing goes on across all business sectors.

[BoredBloke]

"And why not? The public sector is still a market to be exploited."

Have to agree - as I am curently exploiting this partiucular market at the moment!

[Rebecca Loos]

well you are not a real business then and I will tell