I think tiers make sense. I don’t know how/if this conflicts with laser like targeting though.

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Your ears burn slowly, LOL.

Yes, I agree. I think one of the things slowdowns can teach if we’re paying attention, is tactics that would have been competition-killers in the good times—and will be again VERY SHORTLY. Typical recessions don’t last much over a year, folks.

When we’ve got our heads down we don’t always see the this is the real time to be ramping up. Think creatively, put new ideas in place, and you are ready to come bursting out of the gates when they open. Tiered offerings make sense in any economy.

Until later,

Kelly

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While I cannot grow rich with the tapas and they are as time consuming as the big stuff, I learned alot. A little taste of scrumptuous is what we all want.

Offer big and small. Not just for a potential slow down economically, but as an ongoing part of services offered. I am working on a series of drawings to offer now for that very same reason. Not everyone can afford thousands to spend on a canvas, but spending hundreds on an elegant drawing is a good start at collecting a favorite artist’s work. They’ll actually hold their value just as well.

(I love Raspberry Snow too and the gorgeous Frenchman who makes them…part of the peasure of trying new things is meeting new friends. And one of my favorite places to eat in Santa Fe is a tapas bar on Canyon Road.)

Thanks again my friend.

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I do offer my clients tiny gifts in pretty packages, so to speak. Always make them think they’re getting a deal, and that they’re special, I always say.

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Yes, sir, I remember them well. I was an exchange student in Madrid and in Alicante many years ago and I never forgot them. When I first encountered them here I was enamored of the idea but not alays the price, as you say. I think it’s being adopted much more faithfully now, at least in the States, though I’ll allow that nothing is ever as inexpensive as it was when I was in Spain.

Thanks for your comment, and welcome!

Regards,

Kelly

In Spain, tapas is one piece of something, sold rather inexpensively. On Sundays we often go out for pintxos (tapas in the Basque Country) and visit 3 or 4 bars having one pintxo at each place. People don’t eat tapas the way North Americans go out to eat – it’s a social thing going from bar to bar chatting with people you run into along the way.

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Hooray for progress. Keep chugging along.

Friar,

I checked spam, nothing. Your other comment has been eaten by the gods of the ether, so I’m glad you reposted. I think the Super Size trend, in general, is departing with the massive SUV trend. Though Panther makes a good point…

Panther,

Options, yes. In restaurants, I can please anyone I bring along and myself, too if there are choices; in business, there will always be those who want to go all out, even if downscale is the new “up.”

It’s an important consideration right now. Is it right for every business? Hm, hm. I don’t know, but it is right for a lot of folks who are staring at a receding profit margin in pain. Broaden the base and keep old relationships going.

Regards,

Kelly

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Small portions I can live with…microscopic portions, NO.

I dunno if you got my other comment. (If this is a repeat, please ignore).

Anyway, no..we don’t get TGIF in Canada (Applebees or Ponderosa’s Steak House, either). Even Denny’s is pretty scarce. So every time I visit the States, it’s a novelty to go to those places.

Have you seen the Doonsebury cartoons where Zonker is a waiter at “McFriendly’s?”. Gary Trudeau constantly pokes fun at those restaurants with “Super Size” menus.

(4,3000 calorie salad, anyone?)

PS. Hey, I remember the Janice-Cakes!

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