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nesbot

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About nesbot

e: brian@nesbot.com w: nesbot.com t: http://twitter.com/NesbittBrian

Co-Founder/CTO of https://slidebear.com/

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    Interesting feedback. I think we are way to close to even see that. A font with the bars on the top and bottom of the I would be a better fit. Sales (and by extension pitches) is a…

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    Comment #7393253

    Yes, your title suggestion would have been more appropriate. It is all about how we reacted to the honest feedback.

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    Comment #7393216

    We have made a lot of changes so drawing conclusions is difficult. Removing the name/email on the instant demo instantly increased activity there. Moving forward we also introduced…

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    Comment #7393149

    We have used other webinar type sw in the past. For every user of webinar sw you can quickly find a story when a meeting was started late or users (connections) dropped out. Intern…

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    Comment #7393045

    Yes, you are probably right. We have gone as far as we can ourselves and our next action would be to bring in a designer to help out. I am only pretending to know about colours.

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    Comment #7393024

    Ha ha. I think the chain will end here. Besides the max title is 80 chars and the "We did a post about how our post about how our post ..." will fit!

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    Comment #7392960

    As another commenter mentioned "it's been documented that engagement from reddit/facebook/etc is very low". It is all about the unfiltered feedback and what you do with it.

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    Comment #7392771

    Yes, we didn't have the room for that type of change before with the extra text heading. We'll have to try that out as well... it would be more obvious for sure.

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    Comment #7392748

    Very true. Just a note that the play button is actually just for the video. The larger green button below it is for the instant demo.

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    Comment #7392683

    Delay? We were originally using youtube to play the video but now we have switched to Wistia. It is much better and we can link directly to the instant demo at the end rather than …

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    Comment #7350234

    Comments like yours is why we posted the site here.

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    Comment #7350151

    Thanks. The form is very slick so just using it to collect the information is not half bad.

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    Comment #7350078

    Does this allow you to change the price dynamically though? For example, if the user selects Canada for their billing address I must then add the appropriate taxes to the price dyn…

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    Comment #7341262

    Thanks for those comments. Agree with your points on the aesthetics and the need for simplicity of the product. We also agree with your points on the marketing side. Getting the si…

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    Thanks for the comment. Yes, I know what you mean -- projectors are always a pain. You're right, in small groups you can just use PitchIt, no need for a projector and for bigger gr…

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    Comment #7340411

    Hi, I'm Brian, one of the co-founders. We built an internal app to help us show our PowerPoint slides remotely while trying to sell our business app. After consecutive calls where …

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    Comment #6660393

    You are definitely right about that last thought. "90% of all businesses fail". People forget its not random like a lottery but rather based on many factors, only a portion of whic…

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    Working my way through it, though I have to admit I jumped ahead to Appendix B. I agree with the "premature" optimizations and lots of good data to backup performance as a feature.…

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