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【Is asking for a discount code plain rude?】
A small-business owner says customers ask about a product and immediately follow with, “Do you have a discount code?” Is that rude?
They don’t really do discount codes because they price everything as fairly as possible for everyone. If they were just handing out discounts to anyone who asked, they might as well just lower the price, right?
They get that big companies throw out discounts all the time, but as a small business, every sale counts. It just feels weird when people expect one without any reason.
A commenter said some families are raised where you have to ask for something to happen, and there are no consequences for just asking. Others are raised to take offense at anything that isn’t perfectly on the rails. Most families are somewhere in between.
Their take: if you think it’s plain rude, that’s alright. Don’t tell customers and clients, but in your mind it’s rude. Maybe offer a discount for special customers twice a year, with a high barrier to entry?
#Pricing
【家禽为什么会产下未受精的蛋?】
这是祖传的。
包括鸡、鸭等家禽在内,所有进行体内受精的卵生动物在野生状态下都有概率产下未受精卵——该能力可以追溯到卵生动物进行体外受精的时代。
看起来,没有足够的选择压将该性状完全移除。
不限于此,地球生物的许多性状是凑合的。
人是将大量的能量变成废热的内温动物,人对着同为内温动物的鸟谈什么“能量的损耗”像是地狱笑话。
人饲养的产蛋母鸡每天摄入的约 27% 能量用于产蛋。
如果饲料不足或应激、病原体感染、寄生虫等导致其他能量开支,那么母鸡的身体往往会优先减少产蛋或停止产蛋,无论母鸡怎么想。
包括鸡、鸭在内的常见卵生动物的未受精卵有概率自行加倍染色体、孵化出正常雄性个体(ZW 型性别决定下的 ZZ 雄性),这在性别比明显倾斜时略微有助于恢复。
这些动物自己看起来完全不知道有这回事。
一部分野生鸟,例如鸵鸟,会将无精蛋摆在窝边缘,这在结果上有助于代替受精蛋吸引食卵捕食者的注意力。
看起来,鸟自己也不懂这背后的机制。
母鸡可以作为家禽的代表。
母鸡的下蛋频率是祖传与人驯化的结果,在有人取走蛋的情况下有限制地发生“补充蛋量”:
母鸡体内对促性腺激素做出反应的卵泡数量多于正常产卵所需。
母鸡看到窝里的蛋数量少于神经调节模糊地对应的窝卵数(通常约 6 到 15 个,有个体差异)时,会提起屁股再下点蛋来凑够数。
蛋鸡通常每 28 小时可下 1 个蛋,有时一天两个。
这种习性叫做不定数产卵,具体鸟的窝卵数因物种和个体而异。
潜鸭等鸟亦有这种习性。
在被人驯化前,鸡的遥远祖先大概就如此。
根据在卵被取走后会不会增加产卵、在被人为补充卵后会不会减少产卵、这两种情况是否并存,不定数产卵可以分为三种[1]。
在已经凑够窝卵数之后,母鸡并不会继续下蛋下个没完,神经调节、内分泌调节会让母鸡停止产卵,转为孵卵。
母鸡的生殖系统也不能保证一直维持固定的运转方式,具体的个体常常不能实现“天天下蛋”,或是在老到一定程度后性能下降。
截至 2026 年,鸡的最大圈养寿命为 23 年 152 天。
现代工业化养殖肉鸡通常在出生后 40 天到 48 天屠宰,工业化养殖产蛋母鸡通常在 1 年到 2 年内退役屠宰。
与不定数产卵相对的习性叫做定数产卵:雌鸟对促性腺激素做出反应的卵泡数量少,每个繁殖季节能产出的蛋的数量有明确的限制,即使被取走蛋也不能超过限制地下蛋补充。
例如鸽子。
看起来,历史上,有一些古人发现,养的鸡数量较多时,只要每天取走若干鸡蛋,就能在次日得到鸡蛋补充。
人在驯化鸡的过程中筛选了一些无精蛋产得多的母鸡作为蛋鸡。
不过,人早期驯化鸡的尝试可能是用来斗鸡而不是用来吃。
参考:Dale Kennedy, Determinate and Indeterminate Egg-Laying Patterns: A Review, The Condor, Volume 93, Issue 1, 1 February 1991, Pages 106–124, doi.org/10.2307/1368612
【鸿蒙智行五界为何还要靠问界撑销量?】
现在不仅仅是一米超五界,哪怕问界腰斩的情况下,还能一界穿四界。
往不好的地方说,五界的局面很被动。
往好处想,终于知道了为什么问界有底气和华为叫嚣。
老规矩,先上数据:鸿蒙智行公布10月份交付成绩,全系交付33537辆,累计交付突破160万辆。
紧接着,赛力斯公布10月份产销快报,新能源汽车总共24921辆,其中赛力斯汽车销量22105辆。
其它新能源汽车2116辆,合计27037辆。
好多人问,鸿蒙智行五界加起来,为什么还比不过小米一个品牌?
我觉得,10月份这组销量数据,把问界在鸿蒙智行里面的分量说得很清楚了。
而且我一度觉得,余承东过去公布鸿蒙智行整体销量的时候,最大的底气其实一直来自问界。
其实不难看出来,问界一个品牌的月销量,就已经相当于鸿蒙智行五界总交付量的三分之二。
再到小米汽车,10月份交付超过50000辆。
是不是一眼看出来差距了?
小米一个品牌,直接超过了鸿蒙智行五个品牌的总和。
所以,问题就来了。
鸿蒙智行现在已经有问界、智界、享界、尊界、尚界五个品牌,覆盖了不同的价格区间,产品布局也越来越完整,为什么销量还是高度依赖问界?
这和五个品牌进入市场的时间以及发展阶段有很大关系。
众所周知,在五界当中,问界是最早跑出来的。
从M5、M7到M9,问界已经形成了自己的产品梯队。
尤其是M7和M9,分别承担了不同价格区间的销量任务,让问界有了持续的市场规模。
反过来看其他四界,智界、享界、尊界、尚界虽然陆续推出了不少产品,但目前还没有一个品牌能够形成问界这样的销量体量。
所以这也就导致了:华为汽车业务的品牌矩阵越来越大,但销量贡献并没有随着品牌数量平均分散。
问界在前面贡献了大部分销量,其他四界还在各自寻找市场位置。
而且,10月份问界所在的赛力斯汽车销量同比下降54.69%,这也给鸿蒙智行带来了巨大压力。
如果问界的销量继续承压,另外四界能不能撑住场面?
之前传出问界和华为之间要分开,之后又和好如初,本质上就是谁也离不开谁了。
但不得不说,这才是华为(鸿蒙智行)接下来需要考虑的问题,这个局面很被动。
你看小米,虽然目前也在不断扩充产品,但品牌认知和销量都集中在小米汽车这个体系里,单月已经超过5万辆。
鸿蒙智行则不同,五个品牌需要分别建立产品认知、用户群体和市场规模。
品牌数量增加了,管理和市场布局也更加复杂,可最终还是得看每个品牌能卖多少辆车。
所以,鸿蒙智行现在最需要的,不是继续增加品牌数量,而是让智界、享界、尊界、尚界里面,至少再跑出一个能够稳定贡献月销过万辆的品牌。
否则,每次公布五界整体交付成绩,问界总要带头撑起销量,这不是典型的「拥兵自重」了吗?
余承东过去公布销量时,问界是最有力的支撑。
现在五界已经全部到齐,接下来就看谁能接过问界的接力棒了。
总之,就一句话,不是五个品牌简单相加,就等于五倍战斗力,只有成熟品牌才能贡献稳定销量。
其它新品牌至今都给人感觉还没有长大,也就有了大家看到的:「五界之和,反而不如一个已经完全跑通的小米汽车。」
【低价快剪为何让传统理发店破防?】
刷到一个抖音直播间,理发行业的交流。
点进去听了好一阵,将近一个小时的时间,全程都在讨论,如何忽悠客人升单,逼单话术,抱怨甚至辱骂那些不升单的,辱骂那些做低价快剪的,非常恶毒。
四五个人,大多口音很重,听着也没啥文化,就是不停抱怨,泄愤。
相互分享,怎么忽悠客人染发,烫发,办卡,储值,做大项目,或者抖音团购怎么投流,低价引流,引进来怎么升单,怎么pua,挖苦贬低客人。
说他们发质差,干枯,打结。
只要不升单,不办卡,就嘲讽人家穷酸,长得丑。
要么就是讨论怎么忽悠助理(学徒)。
学徒大多只有2000不到的工资,跑路的很多,他们交流怎么忽悠学徒,PUA他们,让他们长期当自己的廉价劳动力,让人家打杂,洗头,卷杠,抹发膏,就是不让他们动剪刀,不让他们上手。
很多被他们压榨得受不了的学徒,跑去美发学校,交几千块,学一个月左右,就出来开快剪。
他们生意被抢,又开始集体吐槽快剪low,吐槽那些干快剪的是行业搅屎棍,吐槽他们是速成班出来的,不系统,没审美。
非常恶臭。
非常符合我对街溜子,黄毛,花臂男的刻板印象。
AI 领域的下一个重大机会,可能不是让 AI Agent 变得更聪明。
而是让 AI Agent 开始雇佣其他 AI Agent。🤖
这正是 @TermiXAI 正在探索的方向。
想象一下:
未来,一个 AI Agent 需要完成市场调研、代码开发或内容创作时,不必独自完成所有工作。
它可以直接雇佣具备专业能力的其他 Agent,协作完成任务,并通过链上机制完成支付和信誉积累。
TermiX 正在构建这样的基础设施:
🔹 AI Agent 服务交易市场
🔹 Agent 之间的自主协作
🔹 链上托管支付,保障交易安全
🔹 可验证的信誉与工作记录
🔹 让 AI Agent 和人类都能参与并获得收入
我最感兴趣的,并不是短期的代币激励。
而是 TermiX 试图解决一个更深层次的问题:
如何让 AI Agent 从单纯的生产力工具,转变为能够独立参与经济活动的主体?
当然,这个模式能否真正跑通,最终还要看 Agent 能否持续交付有价值的服务,以及是否存在真实的付费需求。
当 AI 不仅能完成任务,还能自主雇佣、协作、交易和赚钱时,我们是否正在从「AI 工具经济」迈向真正的「AI Agent 经济」?
【Can pushing a warm prospect too hard lose the deal?】
A Reddit poster said a prospect was clearly interested but needed to think on it first, but was bought in. A sales manager joined the call and had them keep pushing like she wanted. The prospect hung up.
The poster was pissed because the prospect may have been interested, just not ready to decide on that call. The extra pressure may have lost the deal.
One commenter had seen something similar in online booking systems. The new boss was new to the industry and new to inbound leads, and didn't quite get the anti-selling involved. Sometimes the product just isn't suitable for someone, or, as is often the case with B2B, it isn't yet.
The commenter spent weeks softly demonstrating to a new business that she wasn't quite busy enough to justify signing up right then. She'd just churn and lose them money anyway, but in a few months she'd be well worth it.
The new boss saw it coming under the “rotting” page in Salesforce, but didn't bother checking why. He called her, closed her in the commenter's name as a “favour,” and she churned three weeks in, resulting in commission clawback and a lost bit of pipeline.
A prospect can be clearly interested and still need to think on it first. Pushing like the manager wanted can turn a good-fit customer who isn't ready yet into a short-lived close nobody wanted.
#SalesCommission
【How much is proper compensation for a remote salesperson?】
A Reddit poster said he was new to sales—and not a salesperson at all. In fact, he was an engineer who had found a startup with a product he thought was great.
So the short story was this: he wanted to hire a remote salesperson, but didn’t know how much proper compensation should be. There would be a base and a percentage commission, but how much?
The startup was still in its early stages and wasn’t going to be funded for the next 3–6 months, so he wouldn’t be able to pay a lot until the seed capital came through. That raised the bigger question: was it even worth looking for a proper salesperson, or would the company not get anyone decent if the pay wasn’t high?
One commenter said the company had to be a lot more specific. Did it need a full-cycle rep with experience, or a top-of-the-funnel prospector who might have less experience?
“Remote salesperson” can mean very different jobs. Until the startup knows which one it actually needs, there isn’t a useful answer to how much the compensation should be.
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