Striving to make the best possible product has unforeseen consequences.
20:03 / 21:26
Why Don't I Just Make A Few Pedals? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzW_fWCK4E4
The Promised Land Of Kits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GcYqr9-Dc
Join Team FranLab!!!! Become a patron and help support my YouTube Channel on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/frantone
#franlab #frantone #pedal
- Music by Fran Blanche -
Fran on Twitter - https://twitter.com/contourcorsets
Fran's Science Blog - http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings.html
FranArt Website - http://www.contourcorsets.com
20:03 / 21:26
Why Don't I Just Make A Few Pedals? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzW_fWCK4E4
The Promised Land Of Kits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GcYqr9-Dc
Join Team FranLab!!!! Become a patron and help support my YouTube Channel on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/frantone
#franlab #frantone #pedal
- Music by Fran Blanche -
Fran on Twitter - https://twitter.com/contourcorsets
Fran's Science Blog - http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings.html
FranArt Website - http://www.contourcorsets.com
My InstantPot rocks and I can use it to pasteurize/sterilize stuff.
I see that there's what looks like an IBM Selectric typewriter behind her. IBM made its profit, not selling the, but servicing them. IBM made this mistake in the 1980s, after introducing the IBM PC, thinking they were a manufacturer. Yes, they had factories, that made a wide variety of products. But that's not were they made their money. Their money maker was customer service, and they charged handsomely for it. But the customer got real service, for that fee. Other computer makers, during the mainframe era, didn't hold the hands of their customers, like IBM did. That's what propelled them to the top of the market. IBM lost site of that during the IBM PC Era (1982-~1992). Bill Gates predicted that IBM would go belly up in 2000, and IBM might have, had not the Internet, servicing the consumer, happen. All those big stodgy corporations came to IBM to help them create a web presents. From building and managing their websites, to modifying their office IT departments to having an effective web presents. IBM may only be a fraction of what it was in their heyday, but they'd be a dead footnote without the Internet. FYI, in 2000, (after the Dot-Com crash) IBM still had multiple times the revenue of Microsoft.
Fran, have you explored the Military Pedal Effects market ? 😂
I used to tech at HP and I loved that H&P intentionally kept military sales below X % to help protect their workers from boom/bust cycles associated with mil contracts.
Our equipt went into AWACS planes so yeah, big buck price tags at that time under Ronnie RayGun
You make very good points Fran. Back when I was in university and wanted one of your pedals but didn't have the means I missed out on the opportunity. Sad to say I can't get one of your pedals nowadays. I'd much rather buy one of your originals than a Big Muff for example.
It makes me wonder, if sold direct to consumer, what your retail prices would have to be to make a worthwhile profit. I imagine you've already thought this through and deemed it not worthwhile, but it would be interesting to know your thoughts on direct to consumer sales.
Thanks!
Capitalism is a grift.
Scammy cloners JHS cloned her pedals. Creeps.
Just replaced my $20 disposable coffee maker with a new $20 disposable coffee maker. I consider it my yearly coffee brewing fee.
As a businessman I know the young folk like to talk about addressing the "Pain", and "Maximum purchase per transaction" and the value of "Consumables", however …..it never ceases to amaze me that those things they hand down and will to their children were those things in the category of "Made too Well". Don't complain because your business model does not reflect the level of care and quality you put into your Iconic products. In a declining market We sell the most flexible Airpreheater seal that contacts a virtual diamond sandpaper surface, and we have "made less" because we saturated a small market its been a hell of a ride…..no complaints.
And so this is why i love playing with my Hallicrafters HT-37 and SX-111…. built to last
So depressing….
I have spent much of my life fending off planned obsolesence, sometimes accidentally, like my 40 year old Wearever Air Popper, but most often deliberately like my expensive pots and pans set with aluminum bottom plates to distribute heat and my beloved 10 speed bicycle with a Reynolds 531 double butted frame. The irony is that at 3 score and 11 years, I am now faced with the ultimate planned obsolesence.
Fran. Your pedals are art and gifts to humanity. Not a buisness
I love how Fran lays out, concisely, explicitly and firmly her actual experience in manufacturing and the comments are all questioning that – "what if" this and "what about" that.
I think it points in part to how dystopian the current consumer culture really is.