EscapeRocks posted:bigkid posted:EscapeRocks posted:Hahahahha this place keeps me entertained. All of the expert business analysts we have, I am surprised no one from this forum opens up a train company.
A number of people on here have dealt with various businesses or have advanced business and management training that are relevant to the business at hand. The train business is no different than any other consumer or hobby product out there, there are other niche markets out there, too (take a look sometime, for example, at high end audio with things like tube amps, similar market in some ways) and people were commenting about how they saw this panning out. Given that none of us are being paid to comment, and it is simply shooting the breeze electronically, I never understood why some get their nose bent out of joint when people speculate on here or comment. I had another post on here where I posted something about Apple and how its outsourcing works, one person who has dealt with outsourcing critiqued it based on his experience, and while some of his observations I think didn't really cover what the article said, it was interesting (and it is just opinion), but then I had someone give me the old crap line "what does a business professor know? They don't know nothing" (hate to tell the person who wrote that line, but guys like the person who wrote that article are paid a lot of money by businesses out there, to analyze their business and give them suggestions, and people like the author whether people like it or not are the ones who shape how businesses are run, so yeah, they do know something that Sal the barber or Joe the Plumber don't know).
And maybe the fact that people don't open their own train company indicates they are an expert, if you want to make money there are a heck of a lot better ways to do it
Don't assume I don't fall into the highlighted category either
Usually when I make a comment like that it's after reading the whole thread, and seeing how people take it sideways to get their jabs in, so to speak, at Lionel/MTH, whomever. In the 16 years I've been active on this Forum, it seems it is a full time hobby of some to analyze and nitpick every little thing that the bigger companies do, in a general sense. Secondly if you look at history here, it's always the same handful of people who barge into a thread to spread their business acumen, which I am sure is good. It just often comes off as , "I'm smarter than everyone...."
When my music career took hold several years ago, I got out of the family business, as far as daily operations. We've been around since 1899, so we understand a thing or two about how to adapt, what works, etc...
Anyway, we now return you to your regularly schedule program, already in progress
I get what you are saying and who it was aimed at, I am on the same page, these are often the same people when someone refers to what experts in a field have said, will tell you "what do they know, everyone knows they don't know anything" *grr*. 1899, huh? That is a long time in a world where tech company lifetimes are often measured in microseconds
