Things are hotting up

Anonymous has a lot to answer for in our society. Anonymous are most of our crimes; Anonymous are the many charitable contributions that under write society's humanity; 'Anonymous' are many on-line contributors and 'anonymous' or at least 'protected' are concepts that speak to the heart of the very nascent enterprise that we are talking about. So it was with no real surprise that I received this anonymous one-line contribution.

"http://pharmalicensing.com/"

I have my antipodean suspicions about the man or woman of few words that posted this, but they remain suspicions.

Getting to the point: This is a good website and like the other website portrays a company that seems to be doing a lot of what we have been discussing on this blog. Unlike

http://www.ixc-uk.com/ixcukaboutus this site would appear to have some concern for the bottom line (though I will come back to this).

Also pharmalicensing appear to be focused on a more narrow area therefore they would not appear to suffer from the lack of focus that "ixc-uk" suffer from (poor domain name by the way). Pharmalicensing also appear to have the necessary global reach that the self-professed ixc-uk do not appear to readily espouse (though they do seem to like travelling to Australia). Don't get me wrong IXC appear to have lots of honerable drivers and they have some reasonable successes listed in their achievements.

But, and thankfully for this blog there is a 'but', I am still not clear how pharmalicensing charge for their service. Could it be that they adopt the 'vampiric' strategy of charging regular consultancy type fees (c.f. ixc-uk)? I am hoping that these guys charge commission but I don't see that on the site. Commission has the obvious advantage that it is invested with a desire to get to the finishing line and it also carries with it a reward for getting as much for the sale as possible. Retainers and consultancy charges all carry the obvious criticism that the team gets paid irrespective of the sale, in fact 'll go further in my criticism and say 'consultancies' even have something of a vested interest in the sale not going through because they then get to extend their blood sucking charges for another term.

Also neither of these sites appears to be embracing the full opportunities of on-line networking and therefore, in the words of the ixc-uk site, they are still dabbling in ' the ancient art of the go between' reference the reason I set up this blog in the first place.

Maybe if I do nothing else I can improve these company's business models and advance their approach to business ( a somewhat grandiose claim I know). I still feel that a pharma network with on-line chat and exchanges is missing and I still feel that the trading floor for drugs and pharma companies is essentially embedded in the dark ages.

Keep up the good work everyone this is all great and thanks also for the phone calls and expressions of interest, it all really helps. I would still encourage you to post though as that is the most democratic approach and also the most beneficial/fun for everyone.