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Why aren't you pricing lower to draw in startups? There is still some automation that could be done to make the process easier. For example, why not let users g

by coryl 16y ago

Why aren't you pricing lower to draw in startups? There is still some automation that could be done to make the process easier. For example, why not let users give you keyphrases, and you pull in "relevant" blogs/posts/sites that they can filter through? That helps reduce search time. (not sure what feed2lead does with RSS). Email templating is nice to have, but IMO most businesses probably won't use more than 3 different kinds of message. CRM add-ons are also useless IMO, unless your customers are specifically asking for integration for it. I would think most people who use your service wouldn't do enough volume to warrant it. Ideally in the future, you'd also want to integrate email directly through your app or the client's server. That way, you can send all at once, track responses automatically, and maybe do a few neat things with that. I had the same idea for this app while doing cold email sales to drum up business. The hardest part isn't sending the email, it's finding more and more sources.

JangoSteve 16y ago
I think you totally missed the mark on my target market. It's not aimed at startups. It's aimed at B2B companies, usually ones with sales teams. I actually had it priced much lower, but given what it does on the back end it wasn't sustainable. Also, I had many many people in the industry (including customers) telling me it should be priced 10X higher. Concerning allowing users to give key phrases, and it pulling relavent posts/sites/etc, it does that too. Email templating is nice to have, and you are correct, most businesses won't have more than 3-5 templates. But you'd be surprised how many variations you can come up with when you start emailing potential customers. Anyway, the limits that are there are the result of user feedback and monitoring actual use and interaction. CRM add-ons are not useless. Again, you're missing the mark on the target market. My target market uses CRM, and it has come up a lot (mostly customers asking when Salesforce integration will be complete). Anyway, I originally built in CRM integration because I needed it ;-) And finally, integrating email directly through the web app would actually be a detriment. Once again, this is a target market thing. Companies love that this "integrates" directly with their Outlook clients. They don't care that it was actually easier for me to do it that way. Quote from one potential customer (who is now an actual customer): "You might think about having it integrate with the customer's default email client like Outlook, because a lot of us in the industry use the built-in contacts feature as our directory and need it to go through that... Oh, it does?! I'll sign up today."

by coryl 16y ago

JangoSteve 16y ago

I think you totally missed the mark on my target market. It's not aimed at startups. It's aimed at B2B companies, usually ones with sales teams. I actually had it priced much lower, but given what it does on the back end it wasn't sustainable. Also, I had many many people in the industry (including customers) telling me it should be priced 10X higher. Concerning allowing users to give key phrases, and it pulling relavent posts/sites/etc, it does that too. Email templating is nice to have, and you are correct, most businesses won't have more than 3-5 templates. But you'd be surprised how many variations you can come up with when you start emailing potential customers. Anyway, the limits that are there are the result of user feedback and monitoring actual use and interaction. CRM add-ons are not useless. Again, you're missing the mark on the target market. My target market uses CRM, and it has come up a lot (mostly customers asking when Salesforce integration will be complete). Anyway, I originally built in CRM integration because I needed it ;-) And finally, integrating email directly through the web app would actually be a detriment. Once again, this is a target market thing. Companies love that this "integrates" directly with their Outlook clients. They don't care that it was actually easier for me to do it that way. Quote from one potential customer (who is now an actual customer): "You might think about having it integrate with the customer's default email client like Outlook, because a lot of us in the industry use the built-in contacts feature as our directory and need it to go through that... Oh, it does?! I'll sign up today."