Well, Lynn, while I wouldn't disagree with your perspective, I would nonetheless argue that a world-class technology product with few marketing resources and no legal clout will get buried by a competitive product which, though inferior, has more marketing money and/or legal backing 99 times out of 100.

While it's certainly true that you can spend gobs and gobs of money and still end up with a total failure, it's less likely than having a total failure from *lack* of marketing resources. And given a market with two products characterized as I did above, the one with more marketing will beat the superior product with mind-numbing regularity.


On May 3, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:

Amen.

It's never about the technology. I've seen so many great
technologies buried by inferior products that had either more
marketing money or better lawyers than I've seen succeed.


Technology isnt usually what wins the day, but neither is it entirely money
or lawyers, but strategic use of both. Marketing (and sales) isnt a big
packaging machine that vendors throw money into, as its very possible to
spend gobs and gobs of money and still end up with a total failure.


Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Proactive International, LLC

- Because it is about who you know.(tm)



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