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Re: Tell me what your company does

#101

I want to see this guy review the Tarsnap website. For all that some people don't like my web design, I'd like to think that it's very easy to figure out what Tarsnap is.

Layout and copy seem fine to me (but I'm not the OP).

Since we're doing website critique, here's some CSS tweaking (no serious adjustments) that fixes most of my design complaints:

Before: http://i.imgur.com/yopLaY7.png

After: http://i.imgur.com/iANMrgp.png

CSS: https://gist.github.com/madebyollin/41e7aaf1d7604c2ccd54b8f3...

Re: Tell me what your company does

#102

> the more expensive the service a B2B company provides, the more incomprehensible its website > I think the big companies do it to get you on the phone — so they can upsell. I was thinking these things, and then BOOM, he says what I'm thinking haha. These are sales oriented companies. By contrast, B2C is quantity oriented. They need more customers buying their mostly undifferentiated price tiers. Selling expensive p…

B2B is kind of an odd place.

some B2Bs started out doing one thing and then end up doing all kinds other random crap that clients just decided they rather have one team managing a whole project rather than spread out over 200 vendors and contractors and managing it themselves. there's nothing wrong with that! some clients are fighting to keep their business afloat instead of spending all day individually managing their service vendors. and if the B2B gets paid for that kind of work, it's sometimes worth doing.

so if you're a B2B with experience herding 200 different vendors and contractors doing odd crap for a single project, why not advertise it? alas when you do it just sounds really generic like "enterprise solutions" or even "everything". i mean, these companies in the article probably started off doing data analytics then ended up being really good at hooking up internal systems with data collection and then also doing consulting and then marketing and every other thing because their clients must have asked for follow up on their products.

to the author of the medium article. if you see that these companies do everything, why not just give them a call and ask them if they can do that one specific thing? chances are, they've done it before, and even if they haven't, maybe they'll do it for you anyway?

Re: Tell me what your company does

#103

> the more expensive the service a B2B company provides, the more incomprehensible its website > I think the big companies do it to get you on the phone — so they can upsell. I was thinking these things, and then BOOM, he says what I'm thinking haha. These are sales oriented companies. By contrast, B2C is quantity oriented. They need more customers buying their mostly undifferentiated price tiers. Selling expensive p…

Or it is just a case of the site contents not having a very big priority, because your contracts come from person to person sales anyway; and the need of never saying anything dangerous, because your sales people will tell all kinds of different stories to all kinds of people, and your site must contradict none.

Definitely could be this as well. The answer to "can the product do _____" may entirely depend on who's asking. If its a big enough customer at a high enough price, they may want the ability to say "yes".

Re: Tell me what your company does

#105
Here's a fun one, from our very own YCombinator:

> The Flex group uses technology to improve the range and fluidity of human expression. We invent new concepts and representations that amplify people’s ability to create, connect, and understand. We create tools that blur the line between using and creating, in order to provide a conversational medium for thinking and doing.

What they really do is make graphical programming tools. That's it.

https://harc.ycr.org/flex/

Re: Tell me what your company does

#106
This is typical of the "Enterprise" B2B sales approach, as apposed to selling to small and medium sized businesses and startups.

Enterprise sales has developed its own absurd language and culture that is now indistinguishable from parody.

Re: Tell me what your company does

#107
SV/tech sector narcissism and associated managerial credulity is going to provide fodder for much epic and wonderful satire. Which is admittedly minor compensation for this vast waste of human and other resources at a time when we are facing so many genuine challenges.

Re: Tell me what your company does

#108
post #101

I want to see this guy review the Tarsnap website. For all that some people don't like my web design, I'd like to think that it's very easy to figure out what Tarsnap is.

Layout and copy seem fine to me (but I'm not the OP). Since we're doing website critique, here's some CSS tweaking (no serious adjustments) that fixes most of my design complaints: Before: http://i.imgur.com/yopLaY7.png After: http://i.imgur.com/iANMrgp.png CSS: https://gist.github.com/madebyollin/41e7aaf1d7604c2ccd54b8f3...

Nice improvements. Having a bit more space around the margins makes the content pop and become more readable. Nicely done.

Re: Tell me what your company does

#109

My startup is focused on customer-oriented experiential personalized relationship-building solutions by leveraging distributed smart reactive coin offerings powered by unsupervised blockchain adversarial deep learning supported by containerized self-driving car clouds. Investors plz line up, take a number, and contact me thru PM.

So, I'm confused. Is it the Uber of Facebooks, or the Facebook of Ubers?

Sounds like new MySpace business plan.
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