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Why you can't afford to resist the cloud
Software as Services Blog RSS | ZDNet27 Jan 2012 | 3:48 pmWhile many are still digging in their heels against moving to the cloud, they’re finding it harder and harder to do so. Not only because the business case becomes stronger every day, but also because cloud platform providers are acting to address the objections that used to slow or stymie adoption. This week saw Amazon provide another hook between its AWS cloud and enterprise data centers with the launch of its Storage Gateway appliance, which makes S3 storage look like just another iSCSI interface in the data center. Yesterday VMWare announced multi-cloud capability for its Cloud… -
Startup Business Growing Pains | Staying Focused
Chaotic Flow by Joel York18 Jan 2012 | 8:36 amTweet Me! There are a few good things in life that you can never have too much of, and at a startup business that good thing is growth. However, we all know there is always a price to pay for overindulgence. To my way of thinking, the key to being a glutton is to balance your consumption with an equal amount of discipline. If you eat a lot, you gotta exercise a lot. This is the first post in a series that will explore some of the more common startup business growing pains and present strategies and tactics to manage them for maximum success. A startup business is all about capitalizing on… -
What’s the biggest issue you’re dealing with right now?
Sixteen Ventures26 Jan 2012 | 2:34 pmI do what I do for one reason… to help SaaS & Web App vendors be more successful. Period. If I’m not doing that, I’m not doing my job. Some I will help be more successful by working with them 1-on-1 or through programs like the Free Trial Dominator (which is awesome, IMHO). But others – like you – I will help through my blog posts. So… what’s the biggest issue you’re dealing with right now? If I can’t help you because your issue is outside of my expertise… I’ll find someone that can and we’ll help you together! So… -
Online Storage Security in the Public Cloud
The NetDocs Blog3 Jan 2012 | 11:04 amThe rise in popularity of public cloud services has raised a number of important security concerns. While a small plumbing business that stores some of its contracts on an online storage service doesn’t have much to worry about, there are specific industries for whom cloud storage poses some challenges. Very real concerns For example, certain industries have specialized concerns beyond basic security. Common ones include: Legal firms Financial and accounting firms Health care businesses For these groups, there are serious implications if security is breached. A group medical practice whose…
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Twitter to Censor Content by Country
27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 amTwitter announced yesterday that it will now start censoring content by country rather than removing offensive content on a global scale. The microblogging social network ... -
Google Plays With ‘Ask on Google+’ Feature in SERPs
23 Jan 2012 | 9:22 amLast week we reported that Google was testing out the ability to comment, share and even start hangouts straight from search results. This week it looks like Google is continuing its Google+ integration with SERPs by including an ‘Ask on Google+’ to ... -
Google Lets Google+ Users Comment from SERPs
19 Jan 2012 | 5:36 amGoogle is taking its bid for internet domination one step further by revealing that Google+ users will now be able to comment on Google+ posts straight from the search results ... -
Apple Education Event to Focus on eBook Distribution, iPad Sales
18 Jan 2012 | 5:22 amAlthough we’ve already established that the Apple event being held tomorrow will focus on education, ... -
Apple Releases Supplier Responsibility Progress Report 2012
16 Jan 2012 | 9:19 amIn a bid to clear up rumours that Apple manufacturers were host to underage labourers and poor working conditions, Apple has decided to publish it’s the names of it suppliers ...
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Why you can't afford to resist the cloud
27 Jan 2012 | 3:48 pmWhile many are still digging in their heels against moving to the cloud, they’re finding it harder and harder to do so. Not only because the business case becomes stronger every day, but also because cloud platform providers are acting to address the objections that used to slow or stymie adoption. This week saw Amazon provide another hook between its AWS cloud and enterprise data centers with the launch of its Storage Gateway appliance, which makes S3 storage look like just another iSCSI interface in the data center. Yesterday VMWare announced multi-cloud capability for its Cloud… -
Opening enterprise collaboration to the world
24 Jan 2012 | 5:06 pmCloud collaboration platform Huddle is seeking to cement its enterprise appeal with the launch today of a new unlimited user edition and a 99.9% total uptime guarantee. The UK-headquartered, venture-backed start-up is less well known than US rivals such as Box, Dropbox, Jive and Yammer but it believes it has a unique market opportunity because of its focus on external enterprise collaboration.“Traditional collaboration was very inward-looking,” CEO Alastair Mitchell told me when we met last week in Huddle’s offices overlooking London’s ‘Silicon Roundabout‘… -
The cloud is forked
22 Jan 2012 | 3:44 pmThere’s a huge variety of different definitions of cloud floating around. Some are just plain wrong, while others are only valid in specific circumstances — cloud strategies that are right for certain organisations at certain times aren’t necessarily right for others (or even for the same organisation later on in its evolution). It’s tough for any enterprise decision-maker to figure out the right path.While pondering this conundrum, I recently found some insightful perspectives in a blog post by Randy Bias. Despite our previous disagreements over… -
Shock as tech news site researches own story
18 Jan 2012 | 6:46 amKudos to InfoWorld for researching and breaking its story about the sudden-death vulnerability built into every Oracle database. This is a classic piece of technology journalism, researched over a two-month period during which the editorial team “conducted our own tests, verified information with sources we believe to be reliable, and consulted extensively with Oracle itself.”Such in-depth and professional journalistic research is so rare in today’s instant-gratification world of Techmeme-fueled technology reporting that Business Insider found it hard to grok exactly what… -
2011: the cloud has landed
27 Dec 2011 | 12:54 pmLooking back on 2011, what stands out most of all is that the cloud became mainstream. Cloud computing even got its own Gartner hype cycle, and while some aspects of the technology are still deemed to be in the early wave of the cycle, others are far beyond any hype. Indeed, SaaS is so well established today that Gartner positions it firmly on the ’slope of enlightment’, well on the way to achieving productive enterprise adoption. No wonder Oracle rushed to purchase RightNow as the year drew to a close, swiftly followed by SAP’s acquisition of Successfactors.It’s…
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Chaotic Flow by Joel York
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Startup Business Growing Pains | Staying Focused
18 Jan 2012 | 8:36 amTweet Me! There are a few good things in life that you can never have too much of, and at a startup business that good thing is growth. However, we all know there is always a price to pay for overindulgence. To my way of thinking, the key to being a glutton is to balance your consumption with an equal amount of discipline. If you eat a lot, you gotta exercise a lot. This is the first post in a series that will explore some of the more common startup business growing pains and present strategies and tactics to manage them for maximum success. A startup business is all about capitalizing on… -
Cloudburst Expected on Wall Street | Xignite Raises $10M
13 Sep 2011 | 12:11 pmTweet Me!When not moonlighting at Chaotic Flow and Cloud Ave, I’ve been toiling away at Xignite for the better part of the last three years, and I’m happy to announce that the company has successfully closed $10 million in B round funding. The round was led by of Starvest Partners‘ Deborah Farrington who is #77 on the Forbes Midas List and was the lead VC for Netsuite, and John L. “Launny” Steffens, former vice chairman of Merrill Lynch. Previous investors Altos Ventures, Startup Capital Ventures and Peter Caswell, CEO of Netbase and former CEO of Advent Software, also… -
What is SaaS? | Software-as-a-Service Myopia
16 Aug 2011 | 10:39 amTweet Me!It seems a little late in the game for me to be asking a question like “What is SaaS?” But, I’ve always harbored a few embarrassing little secrets on the subject and I think it’s time I came clean. There is a classic Harvard Business School case study called Marketing Myopia by Theodore Levitt that is familiar to every MBA student since the 60′s–the moral of which is not to define your business too narrowly lest you become obsolete. Well I don’t think software is going away any time soon and neither is service, but what about… -
B2B Blog Strategy | Ten Be’s of The Best B2B Blogs
9 Aug 2011 | 8:47 amTweet Me!Blogging is one of the easiest, cheapest and most effective ways to engage the New Breed of B2B Buyer, yet so many B2B blogs miss the mark. Here are ten “be’s” of the best b2b blogs. It isn’t the first top ten list of best B2B blog secrets, and no doubt it will not be the last. But, it is mine and it’s what I personally strive for Chaotic Flow to be. B2B Blog Be #1 : Be Interesting You would think that making your B2B blog interesting would go without saying…well, I’m saying it. Let’s face it, there is a lot of crap out there on the… -
Customer Self-Service | The Holy Grail of SaaS
26 Jul 2011 | 9:38 amTweet Me!One hundred percent customer self-service is the holy grail of SaaS. Everyone looks for it, but it is never found. Even if your product is simple enough to provide complete self-service purchase, you are unlikely to get away with complete self-service support, because you can’t hang unhappy customer’s out to dry or you will ruin your reputation. Nonetheless, the divine power of the Internet to help customers help themselves combined with the promised land of lower customer acquisition cost and lower cost of service will always enrapture the true SaaS believers and hasten…
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Sixteen Ventures
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What’s the biggest issue you’re dealing with right now?
26 Jan 2012 | 2:34 pmI do what I do for one reason… to help SaaS & Web App vendors be more successful. Period. If I’m not doing that, I’m not doing my job. Some I will help be more successful by working with them 1-on-1 or through programs like the Free Trial Dominator (which is awesome, IMHO). But others – like you – I will help through my blog posts. So… what’s the biggest issue you’re dealing with right now? If I can’t help you because your issue is outside of my expertise… I’ll find someone that can and we’ll help you together! So… -
7 Secrets to Increasing Conversions
13 Jan 2012 | 1:41 amWhen your sales process fails to convert customers, it’s probably doing exactly what it was designed to do. Which is why even though you offer an amazing SaaS or Web App that meets a real market need, you’re not making sales. Even though you worked hard, created amazing content, made a bunch of cold calls, and used strategic advertising to get plenty of traffic to your site, you’re not making sales. Even though you’ve optimized on-site conversions and are able to get people to sign-up to try out your product… you aren’t making sales. Even though people try… -
Your Signup Form is Hurting Your Free Trial Conversions!
10 Jan 2012 | 11:00 amI had a SaaS vendor ask me the following question when I mentioned “average” Free Trial conversion rates: When we look at broad Free Trial conversion ratios, I would assume some of the variances may depend on how much information is required to sign up for a free trial. For example, there are a number of sites that require very little, if any, prospect information (i.e., just an email). Others required name, phone, email, address, and some other information. These are two approaches to pre-qualification. I would expect the former will allow the casual less-than-curious person to… -
How to Handle Freemium and Free Trials?
9 Jan 2012 | 9:00 amI got another detailed response to my question “What’s Your Biggest Challenge for 2012?” from a SaaS vendor and wanted to share my response to him with you. Our current app has two pricing tiers – free and paid. Simple pricing has its advantages! We’re coming out with a major redesign of the product (plus new features) in early 2012 and need to decide how many pricing levels to have. So far, the discussion is free plus two pricing levels. I have also questioned whether we should continue to have both Free and Freemium, as this combination seems to be the minority… -
The Secret to Reducing Churn
4 Jan 2012 | 8:00 amLate last year (way back in December) I asked you what your biggest challenges going into 2012 were and I got a lot of answers from SaaS and Web App vendors around the world. But almost everything boiled down to these two things: Convert Leads & Reduce Churn. I didn’t just get terse answers to my query, some folks sent me very detailed challenges and I – in turn – responded in detail. And I’m going to post those conversations – anonymized to protect the guilty – for your edification and enjoyment over the next few days. Here’s the first one I…
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The NetDocs Blog
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Online Storage Security in the Public Cloud
3 Jan 2012 | 11:04 amThe rise in popularity of public cloud services has raised a number of important security concerns. While a small plumbing business that stores some of its contracts on an online storage service doesn’t have much to worry about, there are specific industries for whom cloud storage poses some challenges. Very real concerns For example, certain industries have specialized concerns beyond basic security. Common ones include: Legal firms Financial and accounting firms Health care businesses For these groups, there are serious implications if security is breached. A group medical practice whose… -
ILTA Product Briefing Webinar “Powerful Searching with a Cloud Document Management Service”
2 Nov 2011 | 1:07 pmAlvin Tedjamulia, CTO, NetDocuments, will demonstrate the NetDocuments powerful searching technology and efficient methods to increase awareness and better analyze content from across the organization. He will also train on using NDSearch Analysis, which automatically exposes unknown content as it extracts and displays relevant topics and content choices that match the user’s interest. This webinar is extremely beneficial for existing customers but also for anyone who wants to stay current on the latest in NetDocuments functionality and enhanced design and learn why the most… -
New UI Review “Netdocuments Revised – Really Nice!!”
21 Oct 2011 | 5:26 pmThis is a reposting of Evolution Legal Technology Solutions’ review of the new NetDocuments user interface NetDocuments released a brand-new interface to the public on September 30th, and we think it’s pretty awesome. Feedback from firms that have adopted the new interface is that it is “very intuitive, easy to learn, and much more user friendly in daily operations.” We took it for a spin ourselves, and agree it presents significant usability improvements. We’ll share our observations: The basic unit of navigation is your “Home Page”. This is now a customizable, easy… -
Clearing the Fog
5 Oct 2011 | 4:31 pmIn the September/October 2011issue of The Pennsylvania Lawyer, published by the Pennsylvania Bar Association, practicing attorney and technology consultant, Shannon Brown, provides a very thoughtful and informative primer on the “why’s and wherefores” of cloud computing. His article offers some important background for attorneys attempting to understand the “alphabet soup” of current cloud computing terminology. He also outlines why it is important for attorneys to understand some of the risks associated with cloud computing, and how to mitigate those risks to insure compliance… -
Guest Post: A firm case for Cloud Computing
2 Aug 2011 | 10:56 amThe Desktop Computing era has brought computing power into the hands of the users, but left them still dependent upon IT to provision the back-end infrastructure such as networks, servers and firewalls. Upkeep on in-house infrastructure tends to be daunting and very costly. What’s more, catastrophe can result at anytime from drive failures, viruses, corrupt databases, server patches and the list goes on. You also need to pay for all the hardware and a team to manage it. Since application servers tend to be driven by departmental budgets, IT infrastructures often finish up as over…
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5 Tips For Starting a SaaS Business
26 Jan 2012 | 11:18 amAt Montclair Advisors I work with many different types and sizes of software firms that are jumping into the SaaS business model for the first time. Here are a few tips that I would tell a new client who is looking to get into the SaaS business in 2012. Think “Whole Product” A SaaS offering is more than just software, it is also the services to get the product up and running, training, support, the infrastructure and security. For most SaaS firms, they really view their platform as synonymous with their company’s overall brand, which includes more than just the… -
SaaS Predictions for 2012
29 Dec 2011 | 2:36 pmAs it turned out I was right about 50% of my predictions last year, so here’s my educated guesses for what is going to happen to the SaaS market in 2012: #10 Oracle will buy Netsuite. I know this isn’t much of a surprise since Larry Ellison owns approximately 65% of Netsuite, but with the RightNow acquisition, this type of move makes more sense as part of coordinated Cloud acquisition strategy. #9 SaaS IPO window remains open. There are a number of SaaS firms who have either filed, like Eloqua, or are seriously considering going public in 2012, like Workday, Dropbox, Box, and… -
SaaS Business Profile: Eloqua
6 Dec 2011 | 1:45 pmCompany: Eloqua Started: 1999 Located: Vienna, Virginia Geography: Global Market: Revenue Performance Management Products: Marketing Automation platform and Revenue Performance Management applications that help growing businesses align their sales and marketing teams, identify and nurture revenue opportunities and measure marketing and sales effectiveness Customers: Adobe, AON, Dow Jones, ADP, Fidelity, Polycom, and National Instruments Website: Eloqua Blog: … -
SaaS Momentum – Major Funding Announcements
21 Nov 2011 | 1:03 pmOver the past few months SaaS companies have continued to announce very large funding rounds as they are demonstrating the power of their subscription-based business platforms.Many of these firms are deciding to do large private rounds before filing to go public. Here is a quick round-up of some of these firms: The company has raised an amazing series B round of $250 million.Dropbox is the Cloud storage company that is very popular with mobile phone and iPad users.They have about 70 employees and have secured more than 40 million customers in the past 12 months.This round put the company’s… -
Interesting 2011 Oracle OpenWorld
11 Oct 2011 | 6:29 pmFor the SaaS world, Oracle’s OpenWorld has lately been all about hardware and the Exastack products.These offerings have limited appeal to all but the largest SaaS ISV’s. The good news is that there were some new announcements though that were much more interesting for the SaaS community at last week’s Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Here is a quick summary of the news and drama: Oracle Public Cloud This was a welcome move by Oracle, to finally embrace their vision of the Cloud.Oracle is re-packaging many of their assets including the Exastack, Java, and the Oracle Database…
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Blog on Web Based Business Software and Cloud Applications
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Great Customer Service Matters for Small Businesses – A ZenDesk Success Story
27 Jan 2012 | 7:34 amIn continuation to our article about the age of the customer, explaining why small businesses need to be customer obsessed, we stumbled upon a great article from our cloud consultants partners VM-Associates. They pick on the example of luxury stores to explain how small businesses can learn from customer support best practices and they refer to online customer support software as a way to make customer service accessible to any company. Here is the opening question: When you go shopping in a luxury store, why do you choose one and not the other? Their guess: your interpersonal… -
A New way to Measure Cloud Metrics – Review of Librato Metrics
26 Jan 2012 | 7:30 amJust as we expect telephone service to be available 24/7/365, we increasingly expect Internet or Intranet based services to be available without interruption. To provide this quality of service, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers have to be able to detect and respond instantly to any unforeseen events that may affect their service, and resolve problems before anything breaks. This means that they have to be able to monitor all aspects of their operation that can alert them to potential service degradations and help them find and fix the root cause of… -
Take our Survey and Win a Kindle Fire
25 Jan 2012 | 8:26 amYou might have read our article on Why Small Businesses Need to be Customer Obsessed at the beginning of January. To complement this article we would like to show you how GetApp.com is highly engaged in applying a customer obsessed approach. One of the best practices we follow is to put our users into the centre of our design and development. The way we do this is by getting feedback from real users throughout the product development. Have you tried guerilla testing Here is an example: Let´s remember for a moment our infographic covering The 25 Most Important Online Project Management… -
Cloud Computing is Far More Than Just Technology
24 Jan 2012 | 8:23 amCloud computing may be cutting edge technology, but the majority of people using it in the future won’t be tech junkies. So don’t treat them as such. The days of advertising cloud — or even traditional web hosting — by whacking up pictures of servers, some details about data centres, and a great price in a starburst graphic are over. With everyone from my corner store to my uncle now running websites, server technology went mainstream a long time ago. Who cares about servers The customer is about as interested in what a server looks like as my mum is in the copper wire buried under… -
Supporting your B2B Business – Review of TeamSupport Customer Support Software
23 Jan 2012 | 7:30 amRedux is a Latin word, which means to lead back. This week’s review is a redux post of sorts. We reviewed business-to-business support software TeamSupport back in February 2011. Much has changed since then. The company has come out with a new version of the same product and has bundled in great features to boot. In this post, we will take a fresh look at TeamSupport once again. We will look at the changes they made, its features, interface and see how it can be of use to you. THE BEGINNINGS The interesting thing about TeamSupport is that it works in B2B, a niche space for…
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A Passion for Research
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Roundup of Cloud Computing Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2012
17 Jan 2012 | 1:17 pmThe latest round of cloud computing forecasts released by Cisco, Deloitte, IDC, Forrester, Gartner, The 451 Group and others show how rapidly cloud computing’s adoption in enterprises is happening. The better forecasts quantify just how and where adoption is and isn’t occurring and why. Overall, this year’s forecasts have taken into account enterprise constraints more realistically than prior years, yielding a more reasonable set of market estimates. There still is much hype surrounding cloud computing forecasts as can be seen from some of the huge growth rates and market… -
How Cloud Computing And ERP Mobility Are Reordering Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ERP
2 Jan 2012 | 2:46 pmA good friend of mine recently became CIO of a financial services firm and was given his first major project last month: make the complete accounting, financial, and loan provider data and applications available 24/7 on any iPad or Android-based tablet from any office, at any time. The majority of loan provider applications are cloud-based and his company is running NetSuite. His corporate office is in Asia and cloud-based applications made it possible for the company to launch and operate in California within months. He’s been given six months to transform this mobile vision into… -
Analytics, Cloud Computing Challenge Flat Growth in Forrester’s Tech Market Outlook for 2012
26 Dec 2011 | 4:34 pmIt’s time to strip away the hype surrounding analytics, big data and cloud computing by asking how these technologies contribute to excellent customer experiences and greater customer engagement. Those are the real catalysts of market growth and the greatest disruptive forces at work in enterprise software today. Filtering forecasts of future technology adoption with a customer experience and engagement mindset is essential for separating hype from reality. Two excellent blog posts were published today that provide useful insights for doing this. Ray Wang’s Monday’s Musings:… -
Transactions and Complex Selling: Strong Catalysts of Cloud Computing Growth
7 Oct 2011 | 9:35 pmEnterprise software vendors need to challenge themselves to deliver significantly more value if the potential for cloud computing is going to be achieved . Instead of just going for the low-end, easily customized processes within analytics, CRM, supply chain management, ERP, pricing or service, vendors need to take on the more challenging, complex hard-to-solve problems enterprises have. As I am completing more research on personas, I’m finding what CIOs really look for in SaaS apps. Flexibility and ease of workflow support, intuitive user interface design without sacrificing… -
How Analytics and Business Intelligence Are Accelerating Enterprise Cloud Adoption
26 Sep 2011 | 12:43 amDuring the last few weeks of completing a research project on buyer personas, a key finding of of just how quickly enterprises are switching out legacy reporting apps for SaaS-based analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) is emerging. I’ve been interviewing sales VPs, sales operations directors, contract managers and CIOs. Of all these groups, the CIOs are providing valuable insight into the transition SaaS is going through in their enterprises. Throughout this post I’ll correlate the interviewed CIOs’ comments back to a recent report Forrester published titled Understanding The…
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Why Sales People shouldn’t Prospect – An interview with Aaron Ross
24 Jan 2012 | 6:45 amIn this article I interview Aaron Ross, co-author of a new book, Predictable Revenue. Aaron discusses his experience at Salesforce.com starting a new group that used an innovative outbound prospecting approach (involving no cold calls) to create new leads. Aaron’s group came up with several important breakthroughs which enabled them add over $100m in incremental [...] -
Understanding the Customer Buying Cycle & Triggers
11 Jan 2012 | 7:00 amThis article looks at why customers expect different interactions with you depending on where they are in the buying cycle. It also examines how specific events trigger them into a buying mode. It then explains how you can use this information to make your marketing more effective. The Customer Buying Cycle A simple way to [...] -
The Application Development Landscape – 2012 and beyond
15 Dec 2011 | 7:00 amToday’s application developers are faced with a broad set of architectural decisions that can make or break their company going forward. This presentation, which was given as a keynote for the MassTLC application development conference, highlights the major changes that are taking place in the world of application development. The Application Development Landscape – 2011 [...] -
HubSpot’s Best Practices for Managing SaaS Inside Sales
22 Nov 2011 | 7:00 amBest practices for inside sales managers. An interview with Mark Roberge, VP of Sales at HubSpot, discussing how he blends science and process with the art of selling. HubSpot is a SaaS company selling Inbound Marketing software. HubSpot has grown revenue over 6,000% in the last four years, placing them #33 on the Inc 500 [...] -
When Selling is the Worst Way to Win Customers
15 Nov 2011 | 7:30 amCustomers hate being sold to. They don’t mind getting expert help when they want to buy something. But much of the time they are not ready to buy, and one of the most irritating things is to have a salesperson try to get them to buy when they aren’t ready. Unfortunately too many people in [...]
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Ticket Tailor Blog
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One of the Best Ways to… Sell Business Events Tickets Online
25 Jan 2012 | 8:37 amThe more people you can share your knowledge with, the better. Ticket Tailor doesn’t charge any per-ticket fees whatsoever – we allow you to set and keep your own. This means it’s cheaper for you to sell tickets for business events, freeing up cash you could pump into making training sessions the best they can be (or a greatly deserved holiday!). Along with widgets to use on your Facebook page, website and blogs, easy-to-read graphs allow you to keeping track of orders in a single glance. These little time-savers free you from the hard work of collating all delegate information in… -
#EventProfs: 8 Twitter Accounts Event Organisers Should Follow
18 Jan 2012 | 6:07 amIt’s always useful to find out little pointers about how to make your event bigger, better and more cost effective. If you sell tickets online or promote events, here’s 8 twitter accounts you can’t afford not to follow. Click their names to go to their twitter pages. Event Magazine Want to keep up to date with all the news from the event industry without much effort at all? One click will allow you to do just that. Event Magazine’s twitter feed brings you the best stories about the latest goings on your industry – keeping you on top of your game at all times. Angels Den… -
2 Minute Interview: Itchy Feet
11 Jan 2012 | 5:13 amIt’s that time again folks, drumroll please… Next up to take the two minute interview are Itchy Feet! Before you answer our 12 second questions, give us 3 sentences about your industry and where your company fits in. Itchy Feet Events is the worst kept secret in the vintage dance scene. Roaming from town to town we throw parties where it’s all about the music. Leave your ego, inhibitions and trainers at the door. Pop a feather in you hat, and shake it out to the sounds of funk, soul, rock n roll, rhythm and blues, swing, reggae and ska. At Itchy Feet – its all about… -
One of the Best Ways to… Sell Festival Tickets Online
4 Jan 2012 | 5:14 amOf course, festivals need masses of music and mad, fun time guys and girls. So let’s say, you’re selling in excess of 100 tickets. If you are using a ticket agency, the booking fees alone could take over a third of your revenue. Ticket Tailor are different. We don’t charge you a single penny in booking fees – but we allow you to set and keep your own if you wish. This means that the third you would have given away is now yours to keep… and then some! Discount codes can be applied to any tickets too, so you can use the promotional tools provided by Ticket Tailor to sell more tickets… -
Do You Want to put Events on at the Olympic Stadium?
28 Dec 2011 | 6:17 amEver wondered what it would be like to host your events at the Olympic stadium? The Olympic Park Legacy Company have created a competition which gives event organisers the chance to do just that. The London Olympic stadium is the iconic masterpiece at the centre of the 2012 Olympic games. It will be hosting many of the main track and field events and will be the spectacular back drop for the opening and closing ceremonies. However, after the widely published failure of the West Ham bid to take over the stadium once the Games are over, the Olympic Park legacy Company (OPLC) has retained the…
