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Based in Chicago, Omerisms is a blog by Omer Abdullah. His posts explore Ideas, perspectives and points of view across business, sales, marketing, life and (sometimes) football (the real kind).

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Apr 15

Apr 15 You Never Run Out Of Runway

Aspirations, Careers, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Learning, Life, Personal Codes, Strategy, Sales

In his first letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, wrote:

“In every business we pursue, we’re constantly experimenting and inventing. We’re divinely discontented with customer experiences, whether they’re our own or not. We believe these customer experiences can always be better, and we strive to make customers’ lives better and easier every day.

May 7

May 7 Is It Irresponsible Not To Buy From You?

Omer Abdullah

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Sales, Retail, Strategy

When Amazon launched Prime back in 2005, Jeff Bezos’ central premise was that it should be “such a good value that you’d be irresponsible not to be a member”. This was when it offered 2 day free shipping.

Now, of course, it offers a whole lot more and there are more than 200 million Prime members today. There are two takeaways from this.