{"id":558,"date":"2008-11-25T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T08:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2008-11-23T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T11:36:30","slug":"business-trend-no-need-to-even-talk-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/business-trend-no-need-to-even-talk-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Business trend &#8211; No need to even talk to us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.typepad.com\/aws\/2008\/11\/distribute-your-content-with-amazon-cloudfront.html\">announced their CloudFront service<\/a>, they&#8217;ve made a very interesting sentence:<\/p>\n<p>[..] \u00a0 There are no minimum usage commitments, no monthly fees, and <strong>no need to even talk to us<\/strong> [..]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/99793566@N00\/54110476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"helpdesk\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/24\/54110476_b5dc4806b7_m.jpg\" alt=\"helpdesk\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/99793566@N00\/54110476\">arycogre<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>in this new new new (..) economy, it&#8217;s important to understand that one of the most expensive aspects of selling to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Long Tail\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Long_Tail\">long tail<\/a> is your man power. People people to answer email, make those phone calls and overall think instead of your users is often one of the most expensive part of the operation that can easily eat most of your profits with smaller custumers.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why companies like <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Amazon Web Services\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amazon_Web_Services\">Amazon Web Services<\/a> and others make sure that the whole process is automated, with good knowledge bases and no easy way to reach human being. 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