Comic Strips

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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Never understood this. Study after study tells us how much more it costs to find a new customer, instead of retaining an existing one.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago

same with employees

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It costs more, but those are indirect costs associated with marketing. Most executives only look at sales and expenses and don't think in indirect costs, regardless of how many business people try to explain. So the costs are marketing, we either cut the costs or we cut the budget, but not change what we are doing. Or they don't care, because of the above collusion mentioned in another comment, or because they want to spend on marketing for their golf buddy, the marketing CEO.

Does it drive me insane, as someone who has a marketing and accounting degree, and had to explain it a bunch of times? Yes. Also most high level executives make up a fantasy version of how the business is being run and feel anyone who doesn't agree is inherently wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Also most high level executives make up a fantasy version of how the business is being run and feel anyone who doesn't agree is inherently wrong.

This was quite eye-opening for me, when I discovered it.

I've met Chief Information Security Officers who I wouldn't trust to pick my antivirus product.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Profit graph needs to go up or stakeholders get mad.