You have to do way more marketing since you can’t rely on search result hits, right?
It would be cool if there were a business fediverse type deal where searching worked across all the small business federated web sites. Such a network should putposely exclude or kick out (politely and with a celebration) anyone that got too large, to maintain a small business focus to basically give the little guys a leg up.
It would be like a fediverse small bis cooperative kinda thing. That way there would be a search box for products and services that everyone could use to search the entire small bis network. And this would bypass monopolies like Google or Amazon.
ConstableJelly@piefed.social 1 day ago
Search results on Amazon are fully pay-to-play anyway. You don’t get anywhere near the top of the list without paying for the privilege. No big deal for slop producers who sell in volume, but basically useless for small businesses or private sellers.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Didn’t know. Thanks for saying that.
So it makes even more sense for the small buinesses to organise online under a special coop charter to fight off the icky monopolies.
Like small mom and pop grocers could band together to order in volume to get similar discount to walmart. It might be hard to organise this for grocers in meat space, but should be more plausible to set up a coop fediverse site with a highly small bis protective charter written by a lawyer.
Maybe the way to handle the members that got too big and too successful for the coop network is to celebrate those memberd for a month by promoting them in a farewell promotion, then move them to a harder to acess “alumni” section of the site, instead of instantly and totally cutting them off. Someone more business oriented than me should think about the details.
My main point is that small anybodies should organise, and not just the workers. Small businesses are routinely oppressed, and should otganise and fight back. If we wait for our billionaire-captured government to bust the trusts, we might have to wait a minute.