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2008-03-18 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearBlogging and Newspapers, a Lesson in How Not to Brand and Market - Blog Maverick
The actual post is about why newspapers shouldn't have blogs, but it applies even more to things like web services. If somebody can duplicate your service on their own website in a couple of minutes (for example, by installing an open-source package), what makes you think you can make money selling it?
Yes, I know that I'm posting this on LJ. Ad-supported websites are another matter, but they're still vulnerable: a suddenly-popular open-source package could still make a deep hole in their user base.
Never, ever, ever consider something that any literate human being with Internet access can create in under 5 minutes to be a product or service that can in any way differentiate your business.(from Don Marti)
The actual post is about why newspapers shouldn't have blogs, but it applies even more to things like web services. If somebody can duplicate your service on their own website in a couple of minutes (for example, by installing an open-source package), what makes you think you can make money selling it?
Yes, I know that I'm posting this on LJ. Ad-supported websites are another matter, but they're still vulnerable: a suddenly-popular open-source package could still make a deep hole in their user base.