What if This is Now True: 2+2=5.439
March 23, 2009 by e-Partner · Leave a Comment
Syndicated from REALonomics
e-Partner is an exploratory quest for a New Model Math for use by brokerage firms operating in the Third Economic Wave of the real estate industry.
During the First Economic Wave, the broker-centric era, and for most of the Second Economic Wave, the agent-centric era, business models were predicated on old, predictable model math, where 2+2 produced four. In the current climate, where the consumer has control over the “economic joystick,” we are forced to pose the question; what if 2+2 no longer equates to four?
The Profitability Joystick
Let’s first discuss the “profitability joystick” I have mentioned, then the terms and conditions that now exist for a New Model Math.
Only if we first acknowledge that we are indeed operating in a consumer-centric era, can we then appreciate the imagery conjured by the phrase “economic joystick.”
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