Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: Good review for GOTD by goCRM

Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: Good review for GOTD by goCRM http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: Good review for GOTD by goCRM en Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:46:59 +0000 Swan on "Good review for GOTD by goCRM" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/929#post-7140 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:23:03 +0000 Swan 7140@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I guess InfoCaptor doesn't want any sales huh? :/ May as well take this out of my favorites. ~ Swan Swan on "Good review for GOTD by goCRM" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/929#post-5551 Mon, 07 May 2007 22:20:59 +0000 Swan 5551@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ HI InfoCaptor, ;) Could you please explain its functionality in layman's terms, so that we can better understand how it would benefit us? I've been a crazy downloader here ever since I joined and also bought about 4 programs already directly from the publisher's website, just in case my system ever crashes. After a lengthy evaluation, I'm always happy to pay for programs that will benefit me. :) ~ Swan BuBBy on "Good review for GOTD by goCRM" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/929#post-5453 Thu, 03 May 2007 01:43:33 +0000 BuBBy 5453@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I'm sure there are many people who could use a tool like this (whether they realise it yet or not). Information for developers is available at <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/for-developers/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/for-developers/</a> All the best. infocaptor on "Good review for GOTD by goCRM" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/929#post-5452 Thu, 03 May 2007 01:15:11 +0000 infocaptor 5452@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I am in a similar situation as goCRM and would like to offer my product InfoCaptor (http://www.infocaptor.com) for GAOTD. I am not sure if there are people who need this kind of tool. pauloparra on "Good review for GOTD by goCRM" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/929#post-5431 Wed, 02 May 2007 04:06:07 +0000 pauloparra 5431@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Hello, I want to make a comment about goCRM as well. The day that the program was available I could not get the license number. It turned out that people with MSN or Hotmail accounts were having trouble receiving the keys. They explained this very clearly on their list mail which was sent to my MSN account. I contacted them and explained them my situation. They had all the information about my company, only they had two different spellings, so I created a yahoo email account, send them an email with the account name and the next day I had 2 licenses, one for each of the spellings they had! It took me a little but I got it to work (I think) and this was DAYS after the GAOTD. Now They are even going the extra mile by allowing commercial use, adequate support and even a chance to obtain some upgrades! Yes, this is the first time this is done on GAOTD. Thank you goCRM. You were really on top of things and worked very hard to keep us satisfied. Other GAOTD developers should take this as an example on how to use this service properly. I agree with you Bobby, GAOTD you rule! -Mario Bobby on "Good review for GOTD by goCRM" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/929#post-5428 Tue, 01 May 2007 21:12:59 +0000 Bobby 5428@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Wow .. great news, Swan! Thank you for posting this. I hope Slava and the GAotD team read the excerpt; the number of hits that the goCRM site received is extraordinary and very much an indicator of the popularity of this website's service. GAotD ... Bravo Zulu! (that's 'Well Done!' in NavySpeak) Swan on "Good review for GOTD by goCRM" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/929#post-5400 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:36:46 +0000 Swan 5400@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Good morning everyone! ;) I thought you might be interested to read the following: "GiveAwayOftheDay and goCRM First off can I just say the writing is not my thing so if the following has grammar or spelling errors be kind. I have just had goCRM on the website giveawayoftheday, and as promised I have looked into the process and posted some data. I guess the first question is Why goCRM is doing well but I have come to a point where things are a little stagnant. I have been thinking for some time about what to do with the product next (not development I have that planned for the next year or so). I have a day job and goCRM is done after work and at weekends so direction is not always that simple. As far as I could see I had three options. 1) Develop the services side of the business and try to grow the business. This requires me to become a consultant and go visit sites and install goCRM. 2) Try and continue with my current working and target users that will install and configure the software themselves. 3) Get someone else to do the customer facing work and keep the development going. Number 1 I quite frankly am not that keen on. I don’t want to be traveling around and I feel that my time is better spent improving the software. Number 2 All well and good but where to I get people to pay for the software and be smart enough to setup a system. I know marketing marketing marketing… Number 3 goCRM had 280 customers and not that many on our support plan. I did not feel that I could get someone to do this without losing cash. So I decided to try and get some more users and try and do the marketing marketing until I could afford to move on. How I had been watching the site for a while <a href="http://www.GiveAwayOfTheDay.com" rel="nofollow">www.GiveAwayOfTheDay.com</a> and contacted them regarding goCRM. The offered the next day and I agreed. They required a free version that can only be activated for a 24 hour period. No problem because I have a Voucher Code system build into the buy process of my website. I gave them a little text from the site a setup file and created a voucher code and waited for 8:00 am the next day. Choices Software on the site is usually non-commercial use, no updates and no support. Now if someone wants to use an application in the business world they need to know that if a serious problem occurs, help is at hand. So minimal support is a must, if things are broken then they need an update to fix the problem and finally goCRM helps people run a business putting a non-commercial limit on the download would just be ridiculous. I did however limit the upgrades to the current version (2.x) and support to email only. I believe goCRM was the first software to offer these on giveawayoftheday. Results. The downloads started at 8:00 00:01, seriously people must be hitting F5 to see what’s being offered next. We had some simple instructions on the site that and a few did not bother to read. So I did get some admin work sending out keys. Perhaps SOME is a little understatement I spent hours resending keys and had approximately 500 emails asking simple questions like “I do not have the email can you resend the data” or “Does goCRM have an API” all of which I could reply to fairly quickly. Over the 24 hours we had the following results: Total Registrations was just under 4000. Total Incorrect Registrations 600 (requires 20 seconds of my time to send a key). I fixed these and resent out the keys ASAP. Website Traffic for goCRM Website Total Unique Visits 12014 Total Visits 16177 Total Hits 36923 Total Files downloaded 9316 Total Bandwidth(Kbytes) 68737896 (the setup.exe was hosted by giveawayoftheday so the usage is mostly goCRM TV viewers). Looking at the new users details I think about 70% of the downloads are businesses in my target market. Far higher than I originally thought. Most Visited Page /Buy.cfm ( the registration page ) Highest Exit page /TV.cfm (the free online movies) I am in the process of signing up 4 resellers and have had emails from 13 companies that are looking at upgrading the free single user for a multi-user version of goCRM. One wants 30 users! So what’s next? Well things are now different for goCRM. I have a much larger user base so a few things I wanted to do should now work. My To-Do List. 1) I am setting up a forum for support. Now with all those people I no longer think it will sit empty with no movement. Our fogbugz will help with that. Hopefully the user base will start to support itself. 2) I need to stay on top of the people that have shown a real interest in purchasing more goCRM I am thinking of these as a highly qualified lead and will not let them go cold. 3) I have some real interest in resellers that can sell and support goCRM. I intend to make the most of what has been offered. 4) I have had some truly fantastic comments from people (some bad ones too! But 80% of people liked the software) and I will be adding them to the comments section of the website. 5) Now I have 4000 + users I am going to display the number of registered users on my website. 6) I offer an enhanced support contract and I am going to offer this to all the users. 7) When Version 3 of the software comes out everyone will get a discount code to upgrade. Final thoughts. I now have some smart customers that can guide me on requirements for goCRM in other countries. As a person from the UK I have limited experience of what need to be added to goCRM for say the US so now I have someone that will help develop the software. I intend to listen to these people whenever I can. New users should see an application that other people are running and support (via the forum) that comes quickly. Hopefully this has gone some way to help goCRM cross the chasm. In any event it’s been fun. I am fairly please with the way things are going, but have to admit its hard work doing this part time. chris goCRM Send private email Thursday, April 19, 2007 " I think it's wonderful to know these things! :) ~ Swan