Customers
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Entrepreneurs tend to go where the money is, but their companies stay and provide value (and jobs) where they can find good
customers
and good employees.
But retailers such as Walmart, not just its customers, are part of the collateral damage, too.
China, Brazil, and India have not decoupled from their
customers
in Europe and North America, and so are slowing, though a relatively soft landing is likely if Europe’s recession is as short and mild as predicted.
For SMEs, a shortage of customers, not a shortage of credit, constrained borrowing, employment, and output.
And the
customers
were absent because the pre-crisis credit boom had left them over-leveraged.
That may be part of the story, but competition for talent and for
customers
seems intense between investment banks and others, yet they have collectively been extravagantly rewarded at the expense of those
customers.
How
customers
and companies, including new entrants, would react to such rules remains to be seen.
Insurers that offer
customers
guaranteed-rate products are finding that government-bond yields are below the rates being paid to
customers.
Despite Mexico’s energy riches, for example, the cost of electricity for commercial
customers
is 73% higher than for US businesses.
And should these firms be allowed to access telecoms data to learn about customers’ habits and movements, thus giving them an unfair advantage?
Airbnb and the online travel agent Expedia allow reviews only by
customers
who have actually used their services; that could become a regulatory norm throughout the sharing economy.
Digitization disrupts everything: the nature of goods changing hands; the universe of potential suppliers and customers; the method of delivery, and the capital and scale required to operate globally.
Companies based in developing countries can overcome local market constraints and connect with customers, suppliers, financing, and talent worldwide.
Others regulate the prices ISPs charge
customers.
Of course, it used to be difficult to listen to customers; as a company, you could not station people everywhere to pick up random comments, and few
customers
cared enough to write actual letters – positive or negative.
Nowadays, however,
customers
are commenting everywhere, and all a company has to do is listen – electronically and humanly.
Companies spend a lot of time watching customers, trying to figure them out, but so little time listening to them.
And then they spend thousands or even millions of dollars trying to figure out what these same
customers
really want.
All of that is important, but then there’s the listening you do so that your
customers
can feel listened to.
You can reduce the burden to some extent by creating a community of your
customers
(and prospects) so that they can listen to one another.
Fitbit is not unique; it’s one of many start-ups that are using their own
customers
to help them achieve greater scale in listening.
Economics has shown that this is a really bad idea, because prices are the information system that creates incentives for suppliers and
customers
to decide what and how much to make or buy.
As Zucman points out, a corporation can move its legal headquarters and use mechanisms like transfer pricing to shift its tax burden, but moving its employees across national borders is more difficult, and it cannot move its
customers.
But the decline is likely to be temporary, with new
customers
emerging after a period of adjustment.
The Nairobi-based M-KOPA – which has connected more than 200,000 households in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania to solar power – enables their
customers
to acquire a solar kit for a small deposit.
Now, digital platforms like Alibaba and Amazon enable even small-scale entrepreneurs to connect directly with
customers
and suppliers around the world, transforming themselves into “micro multinationals.”
In the United States and elsewhere, elected governments used to take care of the people, but now, like companies colluding against their
customers
to keep out disruptive newcomers, they have become a separate interest group.
Lacking competition, inefficient bureaucracies focus more on maintaining jobs than on serving putative
customers.
Of course, 5ivePoints will be going after the established parties as customers, but my hope is that groups like Americans Elect, and eventually protesters in other countries, will start to use it (or something similar).
The world in the future will be a riskier place than we thought it was – not because government will no longer offer guarantees that it should never have offered in the first place, but rather because the real risk that one’s
customers
might vanish in a prolonged depression is back.
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