Fake Money Blog

I’ve been sorting out disputes between two representatives who just can’t seem to get their game together. Both seem to be overly concerned about their geographic sales area instead of actual sales. Now they are in their throats trying to gain larger area. Terrible. If your sales is solely based on the idea that you [...]

In the still of the night. Midsummer and all of Finland is drunk except religious fanatics and me. I am writing posts for next week, because I have absolutely no time to spend on this personal project during the next week. Florence Nightingale once said that if you practise something every day for one hour [...]

I’ve referred to green little men once too often, so I believe that I have to state this is not one of those posts. This post is about those red sweaty internet enthusiasts who want to learn to sell and to make money on internet. My random visitors are now staying on the site longer [...]

I wrote about Aman’s website back in February. Back then I mentioned the slightly peculiar composition of his site. Here is a guy who makes avalanches of money in the stock market, but on Monday’s writes about free birthday deals etc. Also, instead of focusing on making money in the stock market, he goes on [...]

In Finland we have very few retail chains that dominate the market especially in the segment of groceries. We have two equally strong competitors, which share about 90% of the market share. Competition is in deadlock, neither side wants to erode profitability by lowering prices. Homogenic Finnish population likes to eat potatoes and beef, so [...]

I have an interesting case going on. We are in the process of introducing our models to a new geographic market area. On our domestic market we are the price leader among top four suppliers. However, we can’t be the price leader on this new market area, local producers are already in vicious price war.
No, [...]

Today I had a discussion with one of our sales reps. He had suddenly gotten an inquiry from abroad. It was a person familiar to him and they had even done some business before.
THE CATCH
Sounds like a fairly sellable situation, right? Well, this rep rakes in just about two million euros per year and the [...]

I had a realization today as I was checking Gizmodo. Apparently somebody made a corset in Star Trek style. This just goes to show how person’s basic preferences don’t change. For an young boy Star Trek is fascinating because of space and action, but as time goes by the series is associated in other parts [...]