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Business Success: Luck or Hard Work? n all price ranges, size and color choices with some services and amenities, but business was slow and carrying all that inventory was expensive.A very large percentage of businesses fail within a few years of opening. A lot of websites on the internet have been abandoned and can be considered failures. When people fail at things the first thing the look at is how hard they worked. If someone fails at something when they g Today there are just two businesses. Both are growing and profitable. They both specialize in their selected ma Payroll Mississippi, Unique Aspects of Mississippi Payroll Law and Practice Once upon a time there were three businesses. They sold the same types of products in the same geographic area. 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They both specialize in their selected market niche and are very good at satisfying their customers by offering the selection, style, value, and service those customers want and are willing to pay for. They both dominate their end of the marketplace and compete against each other for the “middle market.” The “all things to all people” generalist lost out because they couldn’t afford to compete at the high-end with high expenses to hold slow moving inventory, exclusive services, and the trappings of luxury and they could not compete for the low-end of the market where they would have had to increase volume, promote more heavily, and accept lower margins. They kept being whipsawed between the demands of the customers who preferred to purchase from the company that specialized in the market niche that appealed to them. It takes an extraordinary business to be good enough to be a generalist who prospers when faced with specialist competitors.
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