Pascal Rossini

The current economic crisis is far from being a simple recession, but a longlasting crisis which political leaders struggle to measure. Businesses must focus on the basics and find other ways to generate revenues. Today traditional businesses, which we call «brick and mortar», evade new business models that could generate new revenues.

These new models are directly inspired from the Direct Economy where freedom of action is left to the consumers. Processes exist already through services like Business Model Design which are directly exploitable, high quality references. Traditional companies need only to draw from these models in order to reinforce their positioning in a market that is completely ignored today; “The cycle of the flow of products and services”.

Ebay is the champion of financial flows that circulate between consumers by taking a commission for each transaction. On the contrary, Nokia and other mobile phone producers absolutely do not benefit from the flows that their clients could generate by selling their phone second hand…nonetheless, dozens of players do so outside of the control of Nokia, who is closed in a unidirectional BtoC revenue model.

And Nokia, like thousands of other mass consumption product brands, and even luxury brands, deprive themselves of millions of $ in commissions turnover from financial flows exchanged between their clients. They therefore don’t give themselves any way to pursue the virtuous chain of the «products and services lifecycle», which is so natural.

Because of this, today this turnover of several million $ is captured by other players who have a place in the CtoC market, developed unbeknownst to the large brands.

As a traditional response to the pursuit of the lifecyle of a product, businesses attempt to give a second life with adaptations or development of the product for other countries. Instead they should exploit UNDER THEIR BRAND platforms for exchange without thinking about cannibalisation problems, which in any case, will happen sooner or later. To do this they should acquire/create technical solutions and online services in order to propose to consumers to continue the exchange of products to empty unsold stocks .

The model CtoC which adds the marketplace dimension

This model is quickly integrated into a business’ organisation because it is fed by the consumers and does not require many internal resources. In addition, the products sold are more accessible to consumer’s budgets in times of crisis.

Many informed observers today attempt to redefine new approaches in face of the crisis, like Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, who was passing through Geneva. I was able to listen to him speak at a conference of the International University in Geneva. Although of very high quality, these approaches remain fundamentally academic and do not bring concrete answers to the pressing need of finding new sources of revenue.

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Have you noticed that the Chairman and Founder of Twitter is in Spain now? and he describes his nice trip by a ton of very interesting Twitt…

"I was in Palma de Mallorca! Gorgeous area. Even in the rain"

"Sorry I missed you! I can’t use data here in Spain as it’s too expensive. Been hard to keep up with replies because of that"

"Walking around Poble Nou. My last day. In Barcelona"

Whereas apparently the negotiations on the acquisition of Twitter by Google are in a final round, from my point of view, this kind of detail makes me think that it is not yet the right moment!

I have hosted my blog with Bluehost since December 2008 with a paid annual plan. Bluehost is a US provider whose marketing is based on the hosting of third-party applications such as Dupral, Wordpress, etc .

Thursday, January 22nd, I receive this mail from Bluehost announcing that my account was deactivated for performance reasons and my data may still available for up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted with a paid annual plan!!!!

Everything is inaccessible, the ftp, the Cpanel, the DNS. I call the call center in the US right away and I am sent through a maze of agents who pass along the responsibility of providing an answer. I finally obtain the reason for the deactivation; it’s because of a Wordpress script that has a security hole and I am supposed to investigate myself to find its origin????

Before finding the solution and contacting them at the call center, my blog will be deactivated..what customer service? what a joke, what a scam to attract bloggers whose activities are to write and not to dig into php or ajax programming language.

I do not recommend this hosting service provider who cuts off service without any advance notice and who has a terrible customer service. I immediately opened an account with Media Temple who hosts big sites such as Techcrunch, for example, instead of running the risk to be cut off again. Because without a brilliant friend who masters these technologies, I would have been incapable of operating the transfer in so little time, thank you G…

The course of true love never did run smooth; the right way of love isn’t that we know usually
To love is nothing…. to be loved for a long time is something… to love, and be loved by the right person is everything

As a teenager he started a youth jazz club in Nice, where he played often. He moved to Paris in the mid-’50s and worked with such American musicians as Bud Powell, Benny Golson, Miles Davis, and J.J. Johnson at the Club St. Germain. His emerging reputation received a boost in 1957 when he played with Davis on the soundtrack to the Louis Malle film Lift to the Scaffold.

Two years later, he performed with Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk on the soundtrack to Roger Vadim’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960). Wilen began working in a rock-influenced style during the ’60s, recording an album entitled Dear Prof. Leary in 1968. In the early ’70s, Wilen led a failed expedition of filmmakers, musicians, and journalists to travel to Africa to document pygmy music.

Later Wilen played in a punk rock band called Moko and founded a French Jazzmobile-type organization that took music to people living in outlying areas. He also worked in theater. By the mid-’90s, he was working once again in a bebop vein in a band with the pianist Laurent de Wilde.

Discography on Amazon

“Cry me a River” from “New York Romance”, wonderful :