Die Oos-Doppes gaan eersdaag weer groot fees vier met iets vir almal om te doen en te eet … selfs vir oubaas se honne!

Die gemeente in Baillie Park (Paryslaan) Potchefstroom, het reeds bekendheid verwerf vir sy heerlike vleis en wors wat verkoop word en op 31 Mei gaan hulle weer so maak. Die oggend skop vroeg af met ‘n pretdraf en -stap om 07:300, gevolg deur ‘n heerlike ontbyt en eetgoed uit die boonste rakke.

Van hamburgers, kerrie en rys, boereworsrolle, hoedersosaties, poeding, gebak, aartappelkrulle tot pannekoek en mini-doughnuts sal te koop wees.

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Vir die kleingoed is daar vanjaar ‘n spesiale kinderpark waar hulle met alles en nog wat vermaak sal word. Die hoogte hoogtepunt van die oggend is ‘n Dopper-Olimpiade waar ons aan regte boeresport gaan deelneem in spanne.

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The problem I have with the affordable competitiors locally is that not one of them supports a remote transparent call to a web service or the likes. YOu have to recirect to their site! Not a good idea when talking about marketing.

I am with anyone that wants to petition

All the while PayPal was a “small fish” in the banking industry, the established banks didn’t pay too much attention to it. They were quite happy for PayPal to “mop up” smaller businesses as these were less profitable than bigger businesses.

But the big banks did not foresee a phenomenon which is now known as “The Long Tail”.

The Long Tail is a term describing the rapidly increasing number of smaller businesses compared with big established businesses, and their relative profitability to a bank. Think of it as a hyperbolic curve on a graph. The curve starts at the left of the graph very high up (high value / high profit customers). As the graph moves to the right the curve drops sharply as the value/profit of customers reduces. As the graph nears the X axis it starts to smooth out. (There are many more smaller companies than large ones, so many more less profitable SMALL clients than there are profitable BIG ones.) This “long tail” is now collectively, worth MORE than the “fat body” – and it’s growing longer fast!

Years ago, PayPal foresaw that this “long tail” of smaller, less profitable clients would grow dramatically as e-commerce became more established. Here in the UK, a HUGE number of smaller businesses are developing e-commerce websites – thousands of new e-commerce shops appear every month. Hundreds of thousands of people run these webshops from their spare bedrooms through places like e-bay, google checkout and paypal.

So today, the value of the “Long Tail” is collectively greater than the “Fat Body” of just a few years ago.

PayPal’s “lean” business model has not only enabled it to offer affordable e-commerce transaction processing to even the tiniest one-man business, but it has made PayPal profitable!

SA Banks have (as a Cartel) long enjoyed making huge profits and (through focusing on the “Fat Body”) have a business model and infrastructure that is utterly inappropriate for today’s rapidly growing e-commercial environment.

To be truly competitive in this new e-market, SA Banks would have to trim enormous costs out of their model, and perhaps sacrifice some profitability in the process.

Ironically then… IT IS CURRENTLY IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN BANKING INDUSTRY’S INTEREST TO STIFLE AND RESTRICT SMALL BUSINESS E-COMMERCE GROWTH AND THE NEED FOR THIS SECTOR TO HAVE AFFORDABLE TRANSACTION CLEARNING.

Compared to the UK, USA and Europe – where as I said, thousands of small e-shops are being established DAILY, small businesses in SA who want to go this route are either discouraged from doing so, or are failing because of the banks’ reluctance to help.

You see… PayPal doesn’t just work for the small guy… What terrifies the SA Banks is the danger of the bigger guys (Pick ‘n Pay) saying… “Hang on… we pay ABSA XXX% fee on all credit card transactions… If we let our customers pay via PayPal, then we pay LESS fees! And our customers all use paypal, so they like it and know it! AND WE CAN LOWER OUR PRICES WHICH MAKES FOR GOOD MARKETING.

Can you imagine a Pick n Pay advert:-

NOW OFFERING PAYPAL – WE SAVE YOU, THE SHOPPER EVEN MORE. COME TO PICK n PAY FOR EVEN LOWER PRICES THAN EVER BEFORE.

Until SA’s Banking Cartel is broken, and they are forced to distance themselves from the Finance Ministry’s “bedroom”, e-commerce in SA will stagnate, or be the privileged preserve of big companies only…

It’s not small business and PayPal that the SA Banking industry fears… It’s what Big Business will do, and I can assure you that if PayPal was operating freely in SA, many big companies would enable their customers to pay via paypal.

The SA Banking Cartel, in co-operation with your corrupt government is the impendiment.

PayPal retains a very low and politely discreet profile. If PayPal were to say what I’ve said above, then NO aspects of its services would be available to SA – the Cartel and the government would see to that.

What is happening right now is that the SA Banking industry is looking at how it can either fend off paypal (and similar services) or finding ways of collaborating with PayPal that do not seriously undermine their traditional business models – and ultimately, their profitiability.