Yes, I can add and subtract, too. As you might have noticed, I was talking about my inability to get anyone else to by one.
Sorry to offend, I was trying to reassure :) The thing about sales is, you need to be solving something. Someone who is happy with their ipod and its dock is lacking a problem to solve. Someone who's not happy with that solution is a potential prospect, but if they have a problem with running a computer full-time, this isn't the right solution for them, unless they're happy with SqueezeNetwork only. As that pool of prospects grows, the "canned Slimserver" product that gets discussed from time to time becomes more important. If I had to predict what's next in the product lineup, I'd certainly look in that direction.
I was a little surprised that I couldn't get anyone else interested in one, since my circle of friends and acquaintances includes a lot of engineers and programmers, as well as music lovers. I'm admittedly no salesman, but I would have thought I would have gotten _someone_ else to get one.
Only if they have a problem which matches the solution you're offering.
Part of this is due to the fact that many of these people perceived the thing as fussy to set up. This seems like the biggest issue to me.
If you really want to sell some of these, start with the people in your circle of friends who've bought home automation products. If there aren't any, you might not have the right circle of friends for this product :)
And let's face it: lots of the people I'm concerned with do have ipods, so the problem isn't that they don't like computer based audio products.
You might as well try to sell Squeezeboxes to people who don't own stereos. -- "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
