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I think you've made positive changes, but don't forget that your organic audience is much different than the burst traffic from a link aggregator like Hacker News.
Not that your conclusions are necessarily wrong, but it's easy to make false correlations when more than one variable changes.
Why would I just use a webinar company? http://banckle.com/pricing/meeting.html They have a $14/mo plan?
PitchIt started out as an internal app to help us show our slides remotely while trying to sell a different app. After consecutive calls where clients only asked about what presentation software we were using and if it was for sale, PitchIt was born.
Our focus is on simplicity and the ability to respond to adhoc meetings and opportunities to "Pitch" your products. Your attendees must only click a link and they are in. No plugins to install and it doesn't require high bandwidth.
I feel like half of what I see here is advertisements thinly disguised as blog posts. Now this company needs to promote itself a second time by calling attention to the first time it promoted itself?
The best part of this article was seeing what they did wrong, how they listened to the feedback and made changes.
Maybe a bit wordy, but I would have gone with something like, "What we learned we were doing wrong when our Show HN landed on the front page."
> "Since we made those changes, we have noticed the ratio of people who try our presentation demo now is up from an embarrassingly low 1% to a much healthier 28%." I think you've made positive changes, but don't forget that your organic audience is much different than the burst traffic from a link aggregator like Hacker News. Not that your conclusions are necessarily wrong, but it's easy to make false correlations wh…
I feel like half of what I see here is advertisements thinly disguised as blog posts. Now this company needs to promote itself a second time by calling attention to the first time it promoted itself?
"Show HN" is already kind of meta, so this definitely strikes me as meta-meta. I think the main problem here is the post title: "We did a SHOW HN and it landed on the front page of Hacker News" . Good for you. Really. That's an accomplishment, or exciting to say the least. But by definition there are hundreds of front-page links a day -- we don't need a briefing on all of them. What would be next, "We did a post abou…
Since you asked: The name is not working for me at all. I read it as an abbreviation of Pitchlet. The l and I are too close together for me. Only when I saw the link with a lower case i the lights went on. But that is not the only reason. And I can see why I might be the only person thinking of applets here. A pitch is a "Sales presentation". There is only one thing worse than a presentation, and that is a "Sales pre…
Sales (and by extension pitches) is a necessary reality for all companies. Selling is hard. I am not good as sales and we built it to help us sell which is always easier and more effective with visuals.
There are a lot of other uses for PitchIt besides sales but so far the name has clicked with us. Besides I would have to remove my tatoo if the name changed!