AOL business model.
Remember how AOL did business in the mid-late ninties?
Advertise the hell out the service, provide an inferior product & crappy customer service, but keep airing more commercials to attract new simpltons & newbies to AOL.
Customers getting frustrated with busy signals & not being able to get online? No problem...air more commercials.
Five years later, just look how this business model worked out for them. They're losing AOL subscribers at a rate of one million per year, and accelerating. The stock is in the toilet, and would be under $2, if they hadn't conned Time Warner into a takeover deal.
Partypoker, take notes!
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