Re:Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
by behringer on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:41AM
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part of getting people to pay for it is pricing it properly. No business in their right mind would trust a tool that costs 49/mo for 50k users.
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Re:Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
by johnwheeler on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:08PM
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Yeah because you know, NOW really is the best time to prepare themselves for being the next Salesforce or Office 365.
Don't you think it's a just little premature for that scale of thinking? I mean, they just got the thing posted on HN.
Re:Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
by GordonS on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:54PM
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I think there is somewhere in between a startup and Salesforce size - at this pricing, even small businesses are going to be wary.
$49/m is just so obviously underpriced that it rings alarm bells - how could that possibly be sustainable, will it still be around in 6 months?
Re:Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
by paggle on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:25PM
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It’s not that - it’s that as a 6-person team who is a target customer, I don’t want to get a bunch of my data locked in to a system that’s not priced to sustain the company.
Re:Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
by antonkm on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:23PM
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I mean Basecamp is $99/mo. And it has a bunch more features. I don't know about you but I'd say they run a sustainable business.
CRMs are usually ridiculously overpriced.
Re:Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
by drikerf on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:13PM
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Hey!
The company is just me and I'm not trying to land huge customers. Therefore I need no marketing or customer support team. I'm building it for myself and other small businesses. I think I can make that sustainable. I also have no interest in being acquired so you won't have to worry about that either :).
Re:Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
by behringer on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:33PM
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It's not premature. It sets expectations. If you can't set expectations for the buyer, they just won't buy.
Re:Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
by dewey on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:50PM
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You don’t have to build the feature, just add a “contact us” button for > users. Building enterprise grade features is a pre-mature optimizations.
Setting expectations and putting people in the right funnel is not. Especially if it’s a cheap change like adding a button.