#GVP
Paul,
Golly gee, Paul, I guess I don't, of course running a successfull consultancy
for ten years probably doesn't count for being in and running a business in
your eyes. One thing that I have learned over the last ten years is that you
can have all of the product you want, but if you don't support it, it is really
easy to go the he!! in a hand basket.
What is interesting to me is that the assertion that in selling more than
NewTek is a good thing, please tell me why NewTek is still here and GVP is gone
… the difference is that NewTek supports their products and GVP did not.
GVP failed because they lost sight of who their market actually was, not just
the potential new users, but the users who made their market viable, the people
who bought from them in the past, who upgraded their machince to take advantage
of their accelerators and controlers. Yes Paul, they abandoned the people who
made it possible, and when they stopped supporting their products in any
cognizant manner, with the exception of one lousy tech who didn't know anything
about Amiga outside of his own products, in the AmigaVendors fourm which
reaches approximately only 4% of the Amiga ownership world wide, it is no
wonder that they failed. They shot themselves in the foot, we watched them
bleed to death, and at any time they could have stopped the bleeding and found
healing.
Support is what makes or breaks a company. If you scimp on that receipe, you
deserve to fail. If I stop supporting my customers (existing base) then I too
deserve to fail.
muv — AutoPilot vs 1.80 from Mpls/St. Paul
Daniel A. Darlington c3ltd@winternet.com