Comments on: Bricks and Clicks Succeed in Richmond VA http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/24/bricks-and-clicks-succeed-in-richmond-va/ Oshoma Momoh's personal blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:42:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Rob Gagnon http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/24/bricks-and-clicks-succeed-in-richmond-va/#comment-134 Rob Gagnon Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:41:03 +0000 http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/23/bricks-and-clicks-a-going-concern-in-richmond-va/#comment-134 The net is instant gratification. Stores still matter because they are physically with us when we aren't online. I think the smart ones (like you illustrate) are the ones that embraced the potential but still offer what the pure play ones can't : Trust in Physicality. If you have a store, I trust you more. I think if we all lived plugged in 24/7 that disticntion would not be pertinant but we all eat food, wear clothes and drive around, we are corporeal beings (for now). I think web companies where possible should explore the physical side, to reach beyond the tube and touch people physically. I think that's also why boxed software is here to stay.. if I'm going to lay out $500 for office, I want the damn CDs to look at. :) ps. The kids now days play with Magic cards and Yugi-oh cards.. less crap to carry around but less brain involvement. They also have video games.. we only had our soft squishy brains to use... I think we got the better of deal. The net is instant gratification. Stores still matter because they are physically with us when we aren’t online. I think the smart ones (like you illustrate) are the ones that embraced the potential but still offer what the pure play ones can’t : Trust in Physicality. If you have a store, I trust you more.

I think if we all lived plugged in 24/7 that disticntion would not be pertinant but we all eat food, wear clothes and drive around, we are corporeal beings (for now). I think web companies where possible should explore the physical side, to reach beyond the tube and touch people physically. I think that’s also why boxed software is here to stay.. if I’m going to lay out $500 for office, I want the damn CDs to look at. :)
ps. The kids now days play with Magic cards and Yugi-oh cards.. less crap to carry around but less brain involvement. They also have video games.. we only had our soft squishy brains to use… I think we got the better of deal.

]]> By: Aaron http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/24/bricks-and-clicks-succeed-in-richmond-va/#comment-133 Aaron Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:14:20 +0000 http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/23/bricks-and-clicks-a-going-concern-in-richmond-va/#comment-133 Nice! Sounds great... love convo's like that... its easy to imagine most stores like this going as part brick, part click, part text... etc. Nice! Sounds great… love convo’s like that… its easy to imagine most stores like this going as part brick, part click, part text… etc.

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