Re: The dissimination of outliners, was Re: NoteMap -- Greg

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Posted by gkrehel
2005-09-29 19:53:00

Hi Steve and Daly,

Thank you for the suggestions re repositioning/renaming/repricing NoteMap. Even though it seems like what you’re saying is that we should duck the fact that NoteMap is an outliner, which is kind of strange for us at Outliners.com, I don’t disagree that the changes you suggest could produce some results.

However, I’m definitely not convinced the results would be dramatic. And I definitely doubt the marginally improved sales would recoup the energy and $ required to make them happen.

The easiest demonstration of this fact is that we have already repriced NoteMap for many prospects. We’ve repriced it to $0, i.e., free, for school systems systems and have even spent energy trying to get schools jazzed about giving free outlining a try. While we’ve made some headway, the reality is we’ve made little progress for the effort we’ve expended.

I’m sorry I’ve turned into such a cynic, but isn’t the bottom line pretty much this: Outlining is a way to organize thinking. And the vast vast majority of people are not the least bit interested in thinking or in working hard on their thinking.

If you all have a solution for that problem, NoteMap and the other fine outliners and other types of thinking tools available today will take off like wild fire.

Greg

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