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Are you looking for a career with a future? Poteet Tree Service (PTS) functions as a synergistic team. We are all good, together we are even better. There is no deadwood in PTS. If you have impeccable character, are clean-cut, mentally alert, teachable, love trees, hard work and responsibility, I would like to talk to you. We want to hire another climber. PTS requires that you know, or learn and follow ANSI standards. You don't have to be a certified arborist yet, but you will have to become certified within a year of hiring on. A clean motor vehicle record with a valid driver’s license is required. A CDL is required within one month of hiring on. PTS will pay any necessary fees and training costs. An interest in plant health care would be a plus. So what's in it for you? More money, insurance, profit sharing, clothing allowance, bonuses, Saturdays and Sundays are all yours, no storm chasing, year-round work (if you're sitting at the house because of rain or snow, you still get paid), being treated as a professional, pride in being a part of a reputable company in the beautiful city of Nashville, Tennessee and did I mention more money! Dale Poteet 615 399-9999 or 3999999@BellSouth.net.
 
Don't mean to pick you out Mr. Poteet. But your post triggered a thought.

The third Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed just transfered into different forms. In a lot of ways money is the same, so how can 1 company offer so much more than their competitors? Especially if the competitors are feeding off the same market? Somewhere the equation has to account for the transfer of energy/time/money.

Am I wrong?
 
you know, a long time ago a old fisherman told me, "if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is." sitting home through the rainy season and getting paid would be sweet.
mangoes asked a great question, looking forward to the responce. how long has pts been in service? sorry to sound so synical pts, there always seems to be a company that comes along and tries to change the entire marketplace.
 
Mangoes and VCTREE together

“Am I wrong?” Now that is a really good question! Metaphors and analogies are two of the most powerful linguistic tools. Anything so powerful should be used correctly and with discretion or disastrous results may occur. So, is it correct to draw an analogy from the physical law “conservation of energy” to free-market economics as applied to small business? It sounds good, but here's where it breaks down. Applied physics is all about definable known quantities, or at least discoverable quantities inside stated boundaries. Bookkeeping inside a small business is like physics but the business of the small business is not. That's why accountants and physicists are usually the same type of people. It’s also why accountants and physicists usually don't own their own business. Accounting and physics are science. Running a business is much more art than science. To your question “so how can 1 company offer so much more than their competitors? Especially if the competitors are feeding off the same market?” Let me reply with what I think is a more appropriate analogy. How can one guy take a blank canvas and some paint and create a masterpiece so much more beautiful than another guy using the exact same size canvas and the exact same kind of paint? Answer: One is a great artist; the other is just a painter.

VCTREE “If It sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” As one pointless cliché deserves another here goes, “I can't believe we missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime!”
 
again i say "wow!"
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Poteet,

Just the kind of reply I didn't expect. A very eloquent and well described answer. I do agree, that physics tends to hinge on quantities, and in a sense, so do free market economics. I would suggest that where quantities become irrelevent in business ecomics, would be in the human realm. You could cycle more money into your company with higher prices strictly by appealing to the client more (human factor), you could then keep more of that money in the business by having quality personell that don't share the socially accepted philosophy of 'sticking it to the man', and put great effort into providing good effort for the dollar spent on them by the company. Again the human factor.

Ultimately I think too much and in wider perspective can find similarities to economics as I did above with the conservation of energy analogy, as well I tend to be able to see a narrower perspective, possibly where business becomes more abstract and vague.

I just think too much

Sounds like some are more like the 'artist' that can form a business that strokes and applies the human factor to create something different than the status quo.

But a stellar reply, hope you back it up like you say, 'cause you're too far away for me to apply to prove it.
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I've met Ben Poteet once, And Mr. Poteet twice, Once in KY and once in TN. Mr. Poteet is the genuine article. A nice fellow that's easy to talk to. He's very supportive and appreciates quality climbers. If I lived in Nashville, I'd probably be working there. Even if it was just to drive that big green truck around. Seriously, if first impressions counted for something...
 
Mr Mangoes, I don't know if you are hiding your light but there is apparently a connection between the Black-Scholes equation and the heat diffusion equation. Or to quote, I think, Werner Heisenberg,"All science is physics, the rest is just stamp collecting", usually gets my ecologist partner's goat.
 
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