Big Red Car here on a …………. aw forget it.
Today, we chat about buying prescription drugs in Canada. Why? Because it will save you a lot of money.
The Big Red Car has been doing this for a decade. It is easy, but you have to know how and where.
Today, I tell you.
First, there is an organization called the Certified International Pharmacy Association <<< link. They certify Canadian pharmacies.
Pricing strategy, Rent the Runway, Big Red Car? Huh?
Full disclosure: The Big Red Car has never rented a dress from Rent the Runway, but the Big Red Car has always been intrigued by RTR’s pricing strategy.
Oh, my goodness, Big Red Car!
Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss – co-founders of Rent the Runway – at their 24 November 2014 opening in Washington, DC (Kris Connor/Getty)
So, it’s a beautiful warm Austin day and we live in the greatest city, in the greatest state, in the greatest country in the world! Ahhh, on Earth as it is in Texas!
So, the Big Red Car has always been a fan of a smart pricing strategy. I think one of the smartest guys out there is a chap named Patrick Campbell of Price Intelligently by Profitwell.
Here is their website: Price Intelligently.
Pricing strategy is a way for a company to obtain a better source and magnitude of revenue by being smart. You should be reading that Price Intelligently blog.
As a bonus, here is the Price Intelligently “Tear Down” on the Rent the Runway pricing model. Read it here.
Big Red Car here on a beautiful, sunny Thursday. Ahhh, on Earth as it is in Texas, y’all.
So, I’m at church on Sunday listening to the sermon – I love and desperately need a good sermon – and it inspires me to think about some of the traits of great leaders – not “good” GREAT!
I come up with four traits which seem to separate the great from the good and the mediocre.
The economy, Big Red Car?
Big Red Car here on a warmish Wednesday in the Great State of Texas. Ahh, on Earth as it is in Texas!
So, the Big Red Car is taking a look at the economy — IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID — and likes what he sees.
So, the Big Red Car just finished reading Bad Blood, the John Carreyrou book about the rise and fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. It is a good read.
Theranos was the brain child of Elizabeth Holmes, Stanford drop out, who hated being stuck with needles when giving blood. She “invented” a new approach in which a simple pinprick of blood could be used to conduct a myriad of different blood tests.
Elizabeth Holmes, founder Theranos, had this weird Steve-Jobs-black-turtleneck meme going on which she coupled with an artificially deep voice to create the Silicon Valley Stanford dropout genius image. Along the way, she talked some very sophisticated investors out of $900,000,000 before the entire thing imploded. “Look into my eyes!”
At scale, she was going to put these machines – portable blood analyzers – in patients’ homes and at drug stores. It was to be the fast food of blood testing with almost immediate results. The key to it was a small sample size, miniaturization, and almost instant results.
It sounded too good to be true. It was.
Big Red Car here going international on y’all. Today, we discuss what the Hell is going on in Iran.
To refresh your memory, on 14 July 2015, the US and others (Russia, China, England, France, Germany) entered into the Iranian nuke deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) with the objective of halting Iran’s lurch toward becoming a nuclear power. Many say the agreement was flawed. Haha, sorry.
The plan was not approved by the Senate, as is required of binding American treaties, for the obvious reason that the Senate would not have approved it.
Candidate Trump campaigned on the promise of pulling the US out of the JCPA and on 13 October 2017 the US – at President Trump’s direction – did not make the required “certification” to continue the deal.
Subsequently, the US and Israel revealed that Iran had failed to disclose a past covert nuclear weapons development program as required by the original 2015 agreement. Oooops!
“OK, so I forgot to tell y’all about that silly covert nuke program. So what? Can you please send me a few more billion US dollars and Swiss francs? I have bills to pay. Would I lie to y’all? Damn I miss President Obama.”
Respect the process? WTF are you talking about, Big Red?
Big Red Car here supervising the plumbers. Saturday plumbers always require a lot of supervision, but, hey, so what?
There is a new soaking tub going in and the plumbing change is quite extensive. They are doing work below the second floor and above the first floor ceiling – makes me a little nervous.
So, I’m melding a lot of recent conversations with CEO clients. They are all smart and hardworking, but, sometimes, not often, but, sometimes, they don’t stick to their knitting.
They don’t respect the process.
Did NOT RESPECT THE PROCESS
This creates problems which they then fix consuming twice as much time as if they had just respected the process in the first place.
India GDP, Big Red? Huh?
Big Red Car here on a sunny Saturday in the ATX – On Earth As It Is In Texas!
Yeah, it’s going to be a warmish day, up to 100F. Yawn!
So, in the discussions about US GDP, the Big Red Car (huge fan of India) did some research on India. Did I tell you I am a huge fan of India as a country, as an ally, as a market? Love India.
India is a huge country with 1,354,000,000 people. The US has at least 1,000,000,000 fewer people.
US GDP is closing in on 20 Trillion dollars ($20,000,000,000,000) annually, while India has a GDP of $2,597,490,000,000.
Wow, look at that growth! In ten years they have grown by a factor of more than twenty!
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