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Sorry have not been on in the past few days to answer comments, but have been busy playing with my new toy(s). NavLite and someone I will never introduce any of you lot to.
I did not ever say I didn't need training, Uncle Sussex. You just assumed that because I am so brilliant. Truth is, I am one of those persons who gets really annoyed by being trained. Dive in feet first is my usual modus operandi.
I have never had a days "official" training in my life. I even used to bunk off school. (Guess what, I went to the same school as Peter!) Most of the string of letters after my name are either rude ones, or ones that have simply been given to me, presumably in order to fend off my actually going to the institution to get them.
Anyway. I have found NavLite so intuitive that I have not had any official training. I have also been told off for this by Peter. I keep mucking things up and then working out why. It's fun. It's called learning from one's mistakes. And, as I have made just about every mistake anyone can in life then I must be pretty damn clever.
The truth is, spend a few weeks learning the system, or probably be up to speed after training in less than a couple of days. How much is your time worth? Mine obviously aint worth a lot.
Second point (and sorry I was so long winded about the first), is to how Diplomat make money out of it. To me, now, the answer is simple. They do it exactly the same way as Microsoft. Same way as mobile phones.
Initial product free.
If product is "keepable" then they have a customer for as long as the customer stays with Diplomat.
And once you are set up and running with them, as you grow, you spend money.
I think Diplomat already know that if we (royal we) are happy with the system, then we will be spending five figures with them later this year, and then ongoing smaller amounts in a continuous revenue stream for perhaps the next ten or twenty years.
It's called marketing, and it's very clever marketing.
But, with anything like this, their risks are twofold. One, is that they have enough working capital and/or revenue, to support them until they have achieved a pre-dominant position in the market. Two, is that the product has the quality to take on the mantle of market leader.
I don't know, nor have I asked the first question. As I think it is answered within the second one. Ie. If you have the winning product, you can get Bank support.
It would be lovely in this world of ours if everything was sweet and nice. If no-one in business ever pulled any strokes. If a new business could develop without a bit of ducking and diving. Truth is, they can't. Unless they are already stinking rich. Business isn't like that anymore (not sure it ever was, as in the old days it was run entirely by the so-called upper class). It's a shame. But that's called reality.
But, Business has to work within the law.
Now, I presume that no-one has actually been prosecuted or charged with any offence. To me, this suggests that no-one has actually broken any laws?
So, that's business.
Maybe that's why I aint a businessman. But I am, I think, realistic?
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