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It's not about you, it's about customers.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you let grammar trump your profit?
The income stream from new customers in this business is not so high anymore (I think maybe $700 or a bit less a month), and I firmly believe that even though it's okay to play dirty when breaking into something new, afterwards go back and clean up your act. I have a long list of customers now, and I don't want them rerequesting the pricelist and seeing that same mistake. It's obvious then - and when your client list…
An increase in sales from $400 to $900 a month is compelling evidence that these annoying tactics produce good results? Color me unconvinced. Requesting a price quote is a deal-breaker for me. And if I got that email, I would just assume that he couldn't take the time to spell things correctly in whatever he used to generate the mass emailed "reply" - not that he typed it by hand himself. Why would that make more peo…
More than 100% increase in sales and you're unconvinced? What kind of numbers would convince you?
An increase in sales from $400 to $900 a month is compelling evidence that these annoying tactics produce good results? Color me unconvinced. Requesting a price quote is a deal-breaker for me. And if I got that email, I would just assume that he couldn't take the time to spell things correctly in whatever he used to generate the mass emailed "reply" - not that he typed it by hand himself. Why would that make more peo…
More than 100% increase in sales and you're unconvinced? What kind of numbers would convince you?
Ok... maybe he's right, but I'm suspicious about his methods. He's writing about his tools that they're "going for between $200 and $500.", then "This technique raised my sales from about $400 a month to $900 a month" and then that it raised the sales to $1500. So basically he went from ~1.3 to ~2.6 then to ~4.3 sales a month. If he really measured the response, he should take the samples from at least one year (othe…
I always walk away from "request price" sites. Somewhere online is a site that respects my time enough to tell me what they charge without demanding my personal info, and I'll search a bit and find there instead.
So you will spend more time searching for a different site, because on this site it takes time to fill out the form? How does this make sense?
Whether I fill in the sales form or go to another site, there's no way I'm going to get the information I need immediately. As a result, going elsewhere saves me time, while filling in forms in the hope somebody replies is a waste.
Add in a history of bad experiences with companies using similar sales processes, and it's nearly 100% that I'll leave and never come back.
I always walk away from "request price" sites. Somewhere online is a site that respects my time enough to tell me what they charge without demanding my personal info, and I'll search a bit and find there instead.
So you will spend more time searching for a different site, because on this site it takes time to fill out the form? How does this make sense?
Besides, it stands to reason that googling around for a few more minutes is less time and hassle than waiting for one or more e-mail round trips with humans in the loop for the quote process.
Wow. So, I didn't send you an email, and then you send me an email with the indicator "Re:" which traditionally (well, in the last few years of email history) means that you are responding to my email... which I didn't send. Sorry to be a purist, but I consider that a misleading subject line, which is one of the indicators of spam. Yes, traditionally, RE: meant "in regards to" and was a standard header on memos to de…
If you filled out the contact form, then you did send an email of sorts, and he is responding to your email, that you did send.
If a form was used, Re: makes sense. If not, I agree with the spam-indicator. If it was in the spam box, I'd probably gloss right over it, as I hadn't contacted anyone with that subject line.
$200-$500 is not a lot of money for a developer tool, or for a business purchasing said tool. So putting an obstacle in front of someone seems rather pointless. Of course, I suppose it depends on the tool. But if I didn't think it was worth the money I wouldn't buy it anyway. And if its nature leads to lock-in--well, once someone's gotten over the hurdle of "Is this tool/company worth sticking with?" I wouldn't exactly want to give them another chance to reconsider.
"1. Do not put your price on your website. Put a "pricelist request" page, and let your customers fill out a bit of information about themselves." What? Does that really work? As a developer whenever I encounter something like this I'll immediately leave the website and never come back.