Re: NoteMap -- Greg, it's time for Ver. 3

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-09-30 04:15:11

Greg,

You write:

>Moreover, I don’t see some other outlining tool that’s outselling NoteMap and proving the existence of the market I thought was there and demonstrating that some different version of NoteMap would sell like hotcakes.<

Doesn’t MindManager outsell NoteMap? It seems to me that much of the enthusiasm for outlining has been diverted into “mind mapping,” I think because more people seek a tool to organize their thoughts than to organize a document. Most business people, after all, hate to write. (I’d suggest that it is writing, not outlining, that they detest, and this is proven by their readiness to embrace quasi-outliners that seem to require the least in the way of composing paragraphs.) I don’t know that this different analysis affects your conclusion, but—

>Regarding our being fearful that NoteMap 3 would hurt sales of our other tools, that just isn’t the case. The bottom line is that when NoteMap 3 is done we won’t sell many more license than we do of NoteMap 2 and it certainly won’t dent sales of our other products. If there was a real chance that would happen, wouldn’t we pursue NoteMap with vigor? It’s all sales to us and only a matter of devoting our development resources to the products that generate the most demand and revenue.<

What if you implemented columns and cloning in NoteMap. This would make it fairly easy to duplicate many of the features of CaseMap in NoteMap. A prospective CaseMap user might then opt for the more generic, less expensive product.

Casesoft has the technology to put columns in NoteMap, because it has them in CaseMap. Columns would constitute a major change, but you say version 3 will have fairly minor changes. What’s the argument against columns in NoteMap, other than the ‘cannibalization of sales’ consideration that you dismiss?

Stephen R. Diamond

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