7. The Web we know
is “client-server.”
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It looks like this:
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
8. Think of a Web server
as one of these:
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Server
9. Think of a Web client
as one of these:
9
Client
10. Now think of client-server
as this kind of relationship:
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Client
Server
11. In the Web marketplace,
it looks like this:
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
12. Each company has its own set
of cow-calf relationships:
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
13. Helping manage this is a $16b
business called CRM:
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
Server
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Billions
more
14. 14
Client-server also causes weird
legal effects, such as this stuff:
You agree we aren't liable for annoying interruptions caused by you; or a
third party, buildings, hills, network congestion, rye whiskey falling
sickness or unexpected acts of God or man, and will save harmless rotary
lyrfmstrdl detections of bargas overload prevention, or in the event of
random siding management retrenchments, or Elvis leaving the building.
Unattended overseas submissions in saved mail hazard functions will be
subject to bad weather or sneeze funneling through contractor felch reform
blister pack truncation, or for the duration of the remaining unintended
contractual subsequent lost or expired obligations, except in the state of
Michigan at night. We also save ourselves and close relatives harmless
from anything we don't control; including clear weather and oddball acts of
random gods. You also agree we are not liable for missed garments, body
parts, or voice mails, even if you have saved them. Nothing we say or
mumble here is trustworthy or true, or meant for any purpose other than to
feed the fears of our legal department, which has no other reason to live.
Whether for reasons of drugs, hormones, gas or mood, we may terminate
this agreement with cheeful impunity, and there’s not a damn thing you
can do about it.
Accept.
16. So how to we
get cage-free customers?
By giving them tools.
Such as…
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17. 17
Give them tools for sending “personal
RFPs” to whole markets on the fly.
For example, send a message saying you need a 200w 220-
>110 converter
in Amsterdam on a Sunday afternoon…
— without giving any more than the required information.
Scott Adams calls this “broadcast shopping.”
18. 18
Give them tools for managing relations
with whole market categories.
This is loyalty on the customer’s terms.
19. Provide tools that let customers
set the prices they’re ready to pay.
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And to escrow those payments at banks
and other financial intermediaries.
20. 20
Provide tools for collecting and
managing data from many sources.
We call these Personal Data Stores
(or vaults, or lockers)
21. 21
Provide ways for customers
to assert their own legal terms
And to provide easy ways for both sides
to make agreement as equals.
22. Develop new forms of signaling,
such as r-buttons:
The red button on the site’s side is a signal that says,
“We’re open to dealing with you on your terms.”
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24. 24
We call this VRM, for Vendor
Relationship Management
— Is how each of us manages relations with them…
at least as well as they think they’re relating to us.
25. 25
VRM is a counterpart of CRM.
VRM
CRM
It can work together with CRM.
Or without it.
Either way, sellers will have to deal for real with
empowered customers.
“ The return of power” is the conference theme; so I’m here to tell you about one source of power that will emerge in the next few years, and that’s the power of the individual customer. This is not just the power customers get from smarter phones and computers, or from social networks, but from new tools that are theirs alone. This is something I’ve been observing and working for personally, and there are many developers working on the same thing. The end result will be a whole new economy that will be very good for business, and for retailing in particular. To give you a a better sense of where I’m coming from, we’ll start with a brief review…
Why bother reading something written by the seller, gives all advantages to the seller and gives you only one choice?