Subj : Re: Join Networks
To   : Bex
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Sep 04 2022 18:09:37

  Re: Re: Join Networks
  By: Bex to Gamgee on Thu Sep 01 2022 04:01 pm

 > I've seen the spiritual twins of this argument going on since the late
 > '80s. I've seen it in BBSs, I've seen it in Fidonet itself, I've seen it in
 > alernate nets, I've seen it on The Well. It boils down to people being
 > afraid of change. New users are new users, and we old folks could use some
 > young whipper-snappers to come in and freshen things up.
 > 
 > A new method of getting into Fidonet could lead to new users, which could
 > lead to new ideas, which could lead to a further evolution of Fidonet.
 > 
 > I say bring it on!

A non-well understood phenomena you can see everywhere in the market if you
care to look for it: when a company changes their practices in order to appeal
to a different segment of the market than they usually do, they fail to get the
new segment and they lose their old fans in the process.

The reason is simple. If your firm sells peaches and you have fans who like
peaches, if you start advertising oranges and shoving oranges down your
customer's throats, two things are gonna happen:

1) Your customers are gonna leave you because they wanted peaches instead of
oranges.

2) People who watns oranges are gonna get their oranges for their usual orange
supplier instead of you, because their regular supplier has been growing
awesome oranges since 1760 and your firkm will never be as good with oranges as
Classy Oranges Inc.

You don't get new youg customers by turning into an Orange company because you
are not going to be better at it than other Orange companies. You get them by
reaching to them and convincing them that peaches are fucking awesome.


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