One more thought on us shutting down Tastefully Driven. I find it interesting to ponder how little we factor our competition into making decisions like this.
Clearly shutting down our Amazon store will help our detailing competitors. They will sell more products and probably will sell more at a higher margin since there’s one [...]
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Decision Making and the Competition
Our Exhaustive Shipping Project – What We Learned and What New Features We Added
Today we launched some really cool new shipping features on Detailed Image. They were a cumulation of about a month long shipping project that we took on. It was really the one big thing that we wanted to make sure that we got done before the holidays. Shipping options are just so important to customers [...]
Understanding Competitive Advantages
Compared to our e-commerce auto detailing competitors, we have a lot of competitive disadvantages: less space, less available cash, less employees, and less control over vendors and distribution. It can be frustrating and intimidating when entering a new industry. The incumbents will try to use those things to crush you (or at least make your [...]
Simple Problem, Simple Answer
Apparently our Black Friday specials were a little too good. Several disgruntled manufacturers have contacted us regarding their concerns that our pricing was too low. Seems as if a few of our competitors (one in particular) ratted us out and complained that we were unfairly discounting the prices.
Listen, I get that as we grow and [...]
