#consumer sales

[rjptalk]

BUYING AND SAVING

BUYING AND SAVING, Do you know the best time to buy? #Sales #Bargains #Shopping

A Relative Term, by Rich Paschall “Save Big Money at ________” (insert local store name here) There is a big box store with a couple locations in Chicago and a few more in the suburbs. They run a lot of radio, television, and print ads telling us how much we are going to save. Any time we go to a store and give them a large chunk of money, I do not consider that to be “saving.” Of course, saving…

[puremarula]

Curves by Sean Brown puzzle

[kindahoping4forever]

Hello friends! Just a quick kh4f programming note: I'll be out of commission for most of, if not all of today, as I'm having a minor medical procedure done. (Outpatient, everything's fine, dw! 🫶🏻) So if anything notable happens (fully expecting Ash to announce ai2 the second I'm sedated 😌) and I'm MIA... that's why lol. Try not to have too much fun without me! 😘💙

[mothkisserx]

one of the worst parts of streaming services is trying to figure out which fucking one has the show you want to watch. because there's loads of outdated articles listing where to watch stuff and google indexes Hulu/Disney+ listings for movies they don't have on there anymore and turns out it's not anywhere but digital purchase (which you don't truly own) or rental and like fuck it i'll just sail the seven seas i guess!!

(if anyone knows an actually good simple website where u can find where to watch shit and it stays updated and isnt full of AI generated SEO-increasing slop. reply/rb with it pls lol)

[jaythelay]

Seriously imagine the fact that Left 4 Dead will live on longer than Apex Legends or Overwatch.

Really let it sink in that I don't mean that in terms of community, but in terms of being able to play the game 10 years from now.

[letyouknowinc]

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[gregdotorg]

Nothing says "the property of a consumer" quite like the 555th Gerhard Richter print in an edition of 739.

This Christie's phrasing is the best thing since Amazon addressing me as just "Prime Member," in an email.

[helsex]

Has inflation hit stardew valley because fuckk everything is so expensive and I can barely make any money

[thebrideofreanimator]

i found a phantom of the opera game while venturing into the depths on the steam store thats based on the original novel. do we think its worth paying 14 dollars for.

[rjptalk]

THE REAL DEAL

THE REAL DEAL, Can you get a good price? #Negotiation, #Sales #Deals

The Art of Negotiation by Rich Paschall Since I am not an orange-colored celebrity you may think I do not know much about making a deal. Nothing could be further from the alternate facts you are working with. Here at the SERENDIPITY School of Business, we have tips that will assist you in making excellent purchases. If you are trying to buy gold-colored sneakers for 399 United States dollars, or…

[girl4music]

I thoroughly believe that the main 2 issues plaguing the TV art/entertainment industry today are representation anxiety and cancellation anxiety.

Representation anxiety is the reason why the quality of the storytelling is suffering.

Cancellation anxiety is the reason why the quality of the production is suffering.

ANXIETY is what is ruining TV show storytelling and producing in general. If people were less anxious about the way the story in a show should or has to go, there would be more focus on what actually matters.

There are so many storytelling and production issues in a show because people are not focussing on the overall experience when creating/watching a TV show. Showrunners/creators are not focussing on it because they’re too anxious about providing the “correct” or “best” or “most palatable” representation because if they don’t provide it, their show will just get cancelled.

Honestly imagine the extreme anxiety a showrunner/creator would feel in this day and age of showmaking.

It is a never-ending loop for them of “I must provide the representation that appeases both the audience and the network alike” and then “if I don’t do this as soon as possible, my show will be cancelled and everybody that depends on me will lose their jobs”.

Show disappoints the network, gets cancelled - which in turn disappoints the audience, stops them from watching anything else like it in case it happens to them again - which then makes the network misjudge it as “this kind of content must not be engaging enough for consumers to invest themselves in” but they throw it out for consumption anyway because quantity over quality even though they’re ultimately going to axe it regardless because “it doesn’t sell.”

And then the whole thing happens all over again. 😩

Sounds to me like they should just have better communication with the showrunners/creators and more faith and trust in what they’re able to deliver.

And maybe once in a while CONSULT THE AUDIENCE themselves. Make them apart of the conversation more than with just the standard lazy feedback questionnaires. I’m pretty fucking sure were a BIG WIG network executive to actually take the time out of their oh so busy work week to talk to us about what it is we want and what we don’t - things would be better for all sides. For the networks, the showrunners/creators+team, and for the customers/consumers.

At the end of the day the people I really feel sorry for regarding this is not us. It’s the showrunners/creators.

I feel so sorry for the producers, writers and directors because I know they’re all running rings around themselves trying to please every fucking body and every complaint from either side goes right to them.

They’re the mimimim wage staff at your favourite restaurant where customers and employers alike yell at them over something they’re personally pissed about but they can’t do anything about it other than offer their sympathies and provide other alternatives.

You think we have it rough as the viewers.

The network thinks they have it rough.

No.

Who has it rough are the showrunners/creators.

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

modern productions of cats stop age-ing down the characters challenge. let jelly be older let jenny be older let skimble be older. and not even casting wise because that is another discussion entireely i think. just how the characters get played they most seem to be so much younger. even munkustrap skews SO young lately and hes not even an old character

One of my IRL friends once said that Munkustrap is a 40 year old man and I have never been able to read him as anything else, and tbh that tracks. Hard agree. Munkustrap being anything but in his thirties or more does not compute to me. Late twenties if I am being *really* generous. The vocal maturity alone is already in this...really weird young tenor high spot that I don’t like - what I’m going to call the “theatre kid” belt voice fresh outta school and it stayed that way - the 2016 Revival, if you will. 

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me. 

I will say I don’t think we can fully separate the conversation of the casting age of the performers from this overall point - 20 year-olds really shouldn’t be playing individuals who are meant to be 50 plus when the performance world already has so few roles for them/fucks them over by casting younger people in age makeup when they do. Like, no, Old Deuteronomy shouldn’t be 26 in 2022. Doesn’t matter how good they are - they’ll still be good in fifteen years. Neither should Gus. Neither should Grizabella. That should be the baseline standard on its own. With the other cats that are perhaps meant to be on the older side (though again, this is more up to interpretation in, say, Skimble’s case but tbh it has no reason to be), you can get moreso away from stricter limitation and “act” a bit older and cast more vocally mature individuals, but like...30+ year old performers exist. Their abilities don’t suddenly disappear after they turn 40. They don’t stop existing after 50. If they’re worried about them keeping up or their ability to perform in something demanding like CATS up to 9-10 times a week, cast multiples - Korean and Japanese theatre does this all the time (what was that? more money? that sounds like a production company problem to me).

But that’s just my opinion. 

[that-gay-jedi]

Today a trainee working the same position as me transferred a call back into the pool because they didn't know how to do what the client was asking, the call came to me, it was a relatively easy/routine task for a more experienced agent so I finished it off.

Later in my shift my manager told me "put on your superhero cape because you just saved somebody's job", turns out the mistake the trainee had made before transferring would have been very illegal had it remained and by re doing it correctly a breach of national regulations was prevented.

Working in banking is fuckin scary.

[albertayebisackey]

Monday 6th march 2023 - I shop therefore I am

[dayofbanks]

Investment Banks and Finance Companies.

Investment banks offer services in equity capital markets, leveraged debt capital markets, commercial real estate, asset finance and leasing, and corporate lending services. The major functions of investment banks are raising funds, asset management, mergers and acquisitions advisory services, brokerage services, and market making. The asset management function of investment banks involves managing the funds of corporations and investing in stocks, fixed-income securities/bonds, derivatives investments, and other types of investments. Investment banks are actively involved in mergers and acquisitions by performing the functions of deal making. Securities underwriting is the process by which investment banks raise investment capital from investors in the form of equity and debt capital on behalf of companies and government authorities. Underwriters offer a set of services for initial public offerings (IPOs) or seasoned equity offerings. The methods used for IPO pricing are the fixed price method and book building process. The debt capital markets services divisions of investment banks solicit structures and execute investment-grade debt and related products, which include new issues of public and private debt. The strategic changes in investment banks has often been cited as a reason for the economic crisis that crippled the global economy.

Finance companies are specialized financial institutions that make loans to individuals and corporations for the purchase of consumer goods and services. The three major types of finance companies are consumer finance, business or commercial finance, and sales finance.

Learn more about Investment Banks and Finance Companies related to the publication - Strategies of Banks and Other Financial Institutions: Theories and Cases.