CDnow Feels Misunderstood
from the na,-na,-nah,-boo-boo dept
Will someone please tell Jason Olim to give it a rest? As much as I like CDnow, they are a doomed business. Olim keeps citing CDnow's traffic as evidence that his business is not dead, but isn't all of the marketing that created that traffic often cited as Cdnow’s biggest failure because it did not translate into enough sales? At least Olim owns up to the marketing mistakes in the article above. That said, he still wants to keep "leading the revolution". Why is it that when companies start to tank they always reference some irrational, phony revolution?
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