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skevvis

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About skevvis

hacker/founder http://twitter.com/skeevis

http://contactually.com http://proudlymadeindc.com http://www.meetup.com/DC-Tech-Meetup

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    Hey there - I'm Zvi, CEO of Contactually. Honestly, if cost is a major factor for you, you can build a spreadsheet tool that can work really well. However, it takes the same discip…

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    Comment #10967037

    @Graham fair point (BTW I'm the CEO of Contactually). We've made it as simple as possible for now (and our users regularly say that), but we are constantly working to streamline th…

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    Comment #8121642

    Contactually - Washington DC/Remote Hiring: Frontend Developer, Rails Engineer, UI/UX https://www.contactually.com/about-us/careers/ Contactually is a relationship marketing platfo…

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    Comment #4173689

    @quanticle - There's a balance to be had there. Yes, being continually emailed by a service you had no interest in is a terrible idea. But we've found that people drop off for othe…

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    Thanks! Yes, a lot of these are "duh" moments - we just wanted to note how big of a difference it makes.

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    Definitely - when it comes to social communication, there's Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. And that's bleeding across into professional communications as well, with companies reg…

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    @blueplastic - we do regular security audits and will soon engage with a firm to provide that guarantee as well. In the interim, what would you like to see to alleviate that?

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    Completely agree with you that email will either die or get better. The timeline is the question. We haven't seen any strong competitors to the current incarnation of "e-mail" come…

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    @sankalpk - I've seen that before, and it's a great post-mortem. I can see why it's hard for a collaboration company that's not solving a strong pain point. We look at the relation…

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    Yes, but they fix them as soon as it's brought to their attention. Thanks!

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    Hah, we might have over-reached by saying spam. We've used it really to help identify people who might be interested, and reached out to them to learn.

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    This is awesome! Thanks so much for sending this out!

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