Out of the few browsers in the poll, I'd choose firefox because it's what I'm using right now. The many extenstions for firefox make it customizable and the tabs make it so little windows don't take up space in the taskbar.

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I am not going to comment anymore on this browser topic (the post is too damn long). But if you want to know about economics and marketing. Feel free to ask and I'll see if I remember... Just so you know, without going into details, I have a technical and business background. So, I'm not just making this stuff up.

You asked about selling strategies. Well, this is more marketing rather than economics. The most common way is to compete on price. If one cannot compete on price, then you have to look for niche markets and highly target your product to specific market segments. These are the people who will pay extra for certain features that other low cost "general" products do not offer.

There is also a thing called push and pull marketing. Push marketing (proactive) is when you have a product that customers don't necessarily want/need (or may not even know about) but you manage to create demand for it by "pushing" your product into the market. This usually works for products that are totally new and usually happens in high tech. The pull strategy is waiting for customers to ask for the product (reactive).

 

 

 

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and the quatily ->the best here would be a good ratio between both


well , economics strategies vary from place to place. Push marketing is tipical for anglo-americal capitalizims as they base on quantity not quality. Here(in europe) push marketing is not so fameous couse sustomers are a bit more into the product and not their rapper, unfortunetally there are some ppl that seem to like this to change, hopefuly i will not happen.

it funnt that tou mentions that couse i had a lecture on precisaly this topic last week , but i never thought it would come in handy so i sleap thru the half of it

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firefox here I just love " about:config" (dont use unless you know what you are doing)

The thing with IE is that it lacks good png support and is ' insecure', the reason of the insecurity is not that IE is most used or whatever people come up with but mostly because of activeX. If you turn activeX down in your settings IE is much more secure.

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i chose firefox but im using IE right now since my popup blocker only works on IE ...

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erm... Bash...... Firefox has a popup blocker buildin

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There are actually 3 primary needs of the customer for any product.
(1) Price
(2) Quality
(3) Delivery
There is also a 4th one depending on the product and company
(4) Service/Support

Obviously, every company operates on a combination of those factors. But, usually the companies that target the general masses focus on price. Examples, Walmart, McDonalds. And those companies tend to be big companies because their customer base is so big.



You keep focusing on quantity and quality, this makes no difference on push or pull marketing strategy. You can push a product that is good quality or bad quality. Push marketing is not specific to "certain regions". In fact, push marketing, if done well, makes customers believe they are not being sold to at all.
For example, the famous Apple iPod. Before the iPod, no one ever thought about a music player that used a hard drive to store their ENTIRE CD collection. This is a totally new product that created a need in the market. Apple "pushed" this product into the market by creating a need that people now realize they have. The iPod is a quality product but cost a lot of money, yet EVERYONE is buying it.

When you talk about "rapper", I am assuming you are talking about hype. I highly doubt that this is not used and accepted in Europe. Maybe you just don't realize it. Hype marketing is used EVERYWHERE, I guarentee it. It comes in different forms which you may or may not see. For example, BUZZ marketing is something VERY DISCREET.

Buzz marketing is a word of mouth type of marketing to generate "hype". For example, a shoe company gives a highschool ball player a free pair of shoes because he was "mvp" of some tournament. This ball player is very popular in school (since he is mvp and a jock). He is told no one else has a pair of shoes like this and you cannot buy them. He will wear it all the time and show it off. All his friends will see, and his friend's friends will also hear about this. This kind of marketing works extremely well because a friend is marketing the product to you and both you and your friend don't even know it.

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as a matter of fact it is
push marketing it used by companies focused more on short term revenous then the trade mark and this is the specification of ango-american capitalizm .Europiean capitalizm is based on loag term thing so if a company wants to use puch marketing it has to be backed up by other factors so it besomes a slight-push marketing . HAve been to both the diffrence is easy to spot

dont have time to answer the rest
gatta go
take care

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You simply said before that push marketing is not really used in Europe. And I'm just saying it IS. In fact, you say so yourself. You'd be surprised how much it's used. I never went into the discussion of HOW they do it. That's the difference you are talking about. The HOW part.

So, in fact, my statement is true. Push marketing is not specific to certain regions. Just the way it is done can be specific to certain regions.

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no9t9 : BoSZ allready explained it : standard has nothing to do whith how many people implement them.
You're just using the wrong word...

And IE is really dead, because its developers stoped implementing technologies released more than 6 years ago.
Do you realise what 6 years is ?
The web is less than 15 years old !
6 years ago, web was in the Middle Ages...

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