What newspapers can learn from sewing machine companies
by Halloween Costume Designer on 04/07/09 at 3:57 pm
In my last post, I compared the current troubles in the newspapers business to the decline in ice harvesting . Today, my metaphor is sewing machines. Newspapers can learn a lot from them. I got the idea for the sewing machine metaphor from business blogger and Squidoo -founder Seth Godin . He blogged recently about the Singer sewing machine company in its heyday and noted past success is no guarantee of future success. And what he calls the “cycles” of this success are getting shorter as t