Certainly, doing it well is of the utmost importance and I'm glad to see someone putting that as priority number one. There are far too many things on the web done poorly. I was just reading through all of the features on your website and it sounds like an incredibly robust application. I will contact you off list about taking a closer look at it.
***************** Ken Ferguson 214.636.6126 ***************** Nick Gleason wrote: > Ken, > > I'm not sure if this came through before, so resending. Anyway, no problem > on your message but thanks for the clarification. > > we're confident about the product's ability to sell itself which is why we > are the only product in our class that allows a free trial. however, we > have found from experience that it's best if we walk someone through the > first time out - many of our clients are non-technical and the product has > many features which can be confusing to the newbie. > > in terms of a more extensive marketing effort - flash demos, etc. - that's > in the works. but, like anything done well, it takes time. > > we'd be delighted to set you up with a free trial with no sales pressure. > in fact, in the CF-Talk community, our expectation is that we would find > more potential partners than sales which is great. > > Respectfully, > > Nick > > > ............................................................................. > ...... > > Nick Gleason | CitySoft, Inc. | http://www.citysoft.com > > Direct: (617) 899-5395 | Fax: (617) 507-0444 > > > Spend Less >> Do More - Community Enterprise > combines great features with an affordable price. > ............................................................................. > ...... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:38 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Intranet suite > > To follow up on my own post here, (it sounded worse than I meant it after I > read it again) I'm not suggesting this is the case with CitySoft, just that > this is usually the impression I have when I run across a product I can't > demo or in some way "see" before having to speak with someone. I'm sure I'm > not alone in that and I'd imagine it doesn't do a lot for sales. From my > experience, software sales are driven in large part by developers and users > demoing or otherwise checking out some software and then showing it to > someone higher up who would be the individual with whom a salesperson would > need to speak at some point anyway. > > ***************** > Ken Ferguson > 214.636.6126 > ***************** > > > > > > > Ken Ferguson wrote: > >> I always feel like a company who forces me to speak with a sales rep >> to see what they have to offer is not very confident in their >> product's ability to sell itself. They know they need to put on the >> pressure if anyone's going to actually buy it, so they're not about to >> let you see it without someone there to apply that pressure. I think >> it usually comes down to that or to pure laziness, neither of which >> makes me want to get into business with an organization. >> >> ***************** >> Ken Ferguson >> 214.636.6126 >> ***************** >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:245991 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
