#product changes

Currently in my shop, I have Twisted Wonderland Halloween keychains available for purchase. Unfortunately, they are one of my least viewed products in my shop. So I decided I would use this as a little experiment! I’ll try three different methods to help increase the chances of them arriving at a new home.

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Content promotion 

I’ve noticed that I haven’t been promoting these keychains as often as I should. There’s probably a big pool of people who aren’t aware I’m selling these keychains. So, to help counter that, I’ll make more content featuring the keychains. I was thinking about anything from letters, photos and videos. 

what do you do when something tastes wrong? Spit it out, clean my mouth immediately with something like a drink or even brush my teeth, and then throw away the offensive food.

I have a cup about my spIn & I've only been drinking from it for months but today I was drinking water & it tasted wrong for some reason. Oh you meant an object XD see my reaction to “wrong taste” is that visceral

I don't know if maybe my mom changed the dish soap without me noticing

I hate hate hate hate haaaaaaaaaaaaate product changes, DO NOT CHANGE MY PRODUCTS, this is not fair, it’s not right, and it’s extremely upsetting that allistics DO NOT understand HOW AWFUL it is for them to do this to us.

I have also have products that were changed themselves, like I bought the soap I always bought for years and years and then one day it smells wrong, and I check the packaging and it says “Improved new scent” and I litrally cried, for hours, becuase how could someone do that to me?  I was so betrayed, and then I had to go through the horrible experience of trying out new soaps until I found another one that I could live with.  It was horrible.

Here’s how you fix your cup.

1) Talk to your mom and find out if she changed the soap.  If she DID, ask her if she will please change back to the old soap, and never do this to you again.  If she doesn’t understand or refuses, fine.  Move to step 2.

2) Soak the cup in extremely hot water.  EXTREMELY hot.  The hottest the sink goes.  Materials, especially plastic, expand when they are made hot, which releases the things they are holding within them (such as the previous soap smell).  Please don’t scald yourself.  Put the cup in the sink, then fill it with the hot water, don’t touch the hot water yourself.  If you also want to cleanse the outside of the cup, put it in a pot and fill that with the hot water.  Let it sit for a minute or two until the cup is as hot as the water.

3) Change the sink temperature to water that’s hot, but not going to hurt you.  As hot as you can stand it without hurting yourself, and then scrub the cup with a scrubbing sponge with either the RIGHT(old) soap, or with NO soap.  Use a new sponge if you have to.  

4) Rinse the cup with COLD water.  This will cause the material to contract again, sealing in any smells.  

5) Smell the cup.  The gross smell WILL be reduced.  It may even be totally gone.  If it’s NOT totally gone, repeat soaking in the hot water.

I do this myself with ALL the cups I use.  Because of Covid, I’m not able to get my normal dishwasher detergent.  The one I currently have has some gross lemon smell that I can’t stand.  So I’m hand-soaking the cups I use in the hot water to get the smell off before I use them.  This method really works.

It’s also possible that your cup is starting to smell because it’s not getting fully cleaned in the edges at the bottom.  A good hot soak and hand scrub will also help with this.

I hope you’re able to get the smell out.  This is a SERIOUS issue, I completely understand how important it is, and I really, really hope you’re able to get your cup back.

I don’t post often, so if you have questions, contact me and ask.

There are 4 primary business activities that every entrepreneur must focus on in order to succeed. Only 4.  While there are over 60 departments in every business, they only lead to busy work. Instead, focus on the business problem your client’s are trying solve. They, like you, feel their time is valuable, and thus want to make sure it’s producing a revenue stream.

Here we go.

Research and Development

If you’re not improving your product and protecting it, soon, you won’t have a product, or at least a relevant one.

Isn’t this Product Management?

This is not Product Management.  Product Management is solely concerned with the current product, it’s manufacturing, and maintenance, and it’s retirement.  Research and Development is in building a whole new infrastructure to support the new product, development, manufacturing, customer support, and so on.  What does it take to roll out version 2 of a product built using a whole new language, manufacturing facility, or AI solution.

Remember that life cycle I described in part 3, that life cycle applies to everything about your business. Software, Hardware, Services, and so on all become obsolete within life cycles.  Microsoft publishes a new operating system, languages, database server, web server and so forth on a yearly basis.  Other companies follow suit to take advantage of the enhancements that are made.

The same is true in the medical field, manufacturing - now that 3D printers are here, communications, air traffic controls, farming, automobiles ... You name the field, and then looking over the past 20 years how research has changed it. Enhanced it. Made it more productive with less effort.

But I thought ...

You may think that finance should be #4, but you’d be very wrong, and you’re company would implode well before you succeeded at securing the financing needed to keep the company afloat. Along with being very frustrated when you learn that most financiers refuse to finance salaries. Instead, they finance marketing efforts, which in turn are supposed to fuel your sales efforts, which pay your salaries.  Oh, and did I mention that Financier’s also request that your existing salaries be frozen during the time of their funding?  Whoops, that 0$ a year salary you started with ... ya, you’re stuck with it for the next 2 years.  So, enough about financing, I’ll save this for another blog.

Corporate Counter Intelligence

How do you know when other companies are stealing your ideas?  You monitor them.  That’s right, companies police each other, and file lawsuits called copy right infringements or patent right infringements.  It’s your work, protect it.  

Coca Cola’s formula is so protected, that it’s not even patented.  That’s right, if you figure out how to make Coca Cola and attempt to patent it, they will buy you out.  Get your spectrometer out and figure out what it’s make of, cause there’s 100′s of Thousands of dollars waiting for you.  (Speaking of Financing with almost no strings.)  “ But! Why don’t they patent it?”  It’s because, once the formula is known, then every mom and pop shop can produce a 1 off of Coke.

Have you ever heard your favorite song, story, movie, or book remixed?  Probably, that’s because that’s allowed under copy right law. People are allowed to take other’s works, re-work them, tweak them, and publish them as an original work.  Trust me, it pisses a lot of people off, but that’s how our system works. And, it’s a necessary and an important part of innovation.  Without this right to rework something, anyone who improved upon the electric light bulb would have to pay Edison for the right to produce their light bulb.

Speaking of Edison’s light bulb and innovation - he started out by testing 100′s of different metals until he stumbled across carbon filaments, in a vacuum. Think about how this invention would later affect vacuum tubes, computers, electronics, and today's OLED monitors .. which by the way using Zinc Oxide as a light emitting source, with almost no heat dissipation.

So, protect your inventions zealously. Unless you’re going to use open source, then make sure that the GPL license you use, insures that corporations can test, but not use in production the products they are producing with your products.  Every instance of your product should be paid for either in totality or via subscription.

New Features and Enhancements

As mentioned, the environment and playing field change almost daily.  What ever you are using to product your product or service will change in a year.  One day you’re traveling to client’s to maintain their computers, the next you’re doing it all remotely. One day you’re listening to CD’s, the next day MP3, and the next a new format that provides better compression and higher fidelity.  We’ve gone from Cathode Ray Tubes monitors to OLED monitors, and tomorrow, it may be holograms in glass.

Why do they write new books about the same topic?  It’s not to write about the topic all over again. It’s to describe how the topic has been affected by the advances of technology. NASA is developing WARP drive. How will space travel affect everything and everyone? What new social norms, political norms, and historical aspects will be documented that affect how your product was reshaped and molded during that time.

Is there a university working on something that may affect your product? 

Production Changes

There’s your product, and then there’s how you produce your product.  

So you’re product is handmade woven thread, in the way back machine. Then the loom is upgraded and automated with cogs, gears and a little electricity. Now the work of 20 people is reduced to 1.  Plus, instead of producing 100 yards of material a week, you can generate 100 yards of material in an hour.

I could have talked about current technology, but what’s the difference between a loom being automated vs automating how programs are written by AI? It’s not that the automation has taken place, it’s how the automation is changing the landscape, the business environment, political environment, and social environment.

Tesla is changing the way cars are made. Pretty soon, we will see the automation of car product look like that seen in Minority Report.  A website will be used to allow customers to choose the accessories they want / need, then have it built as easily as ordering a pizza. 

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