Is Your Business Set Up For Failure?
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This topic can be talked about from now until eternity and it very well should be. As a business owner you have to make sure you try to plan for everything possible. Clients aren’t coming in anymore so how are you going to pay your vendors. You have a streaming revenue do you still wait to pay vendors and try to gain percentage on the revenue?
There are millions of questions but the one that always gets me is to why release a product – non beta – to the public and know its going to fail?
I love BETA – those four letters is the best way to release any type of product and acts as a sort of ‘disclaimer’ if you don’t mind.
Yet, when I read up on the new Blackberry Storm I couldn’t believe that RIM expects problems and knew they were coming:
RIM co-Chief Executive Jim Balsillie said the companies made the crucial Black Friday deadline “by the skin of their teeth,” after missing a planned October debut. Mr. Balsillie said such scrambles — and the subsequent software glitches that need to be fixed — are part of the “new reality” of making complex cellphones in large volumes.
Who would’ve guessed it. One of thee top smartphone providers and to be quite honest a break through on BB technology (Touchscreen).
So, what can this example teach you for your business? Pretty simple in my book – test your product and if it’s not ready for launch – DON’T LAUNCH IT. If you feel the need to then make sure there are notices out there that say there are bugs and you have the fix’s or otherwise it could hurt your long tail.
What say you?
