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Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

Ethan Bloch — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:15:19 -0000

Hi Joe,

Thank you! And be sure to stay tuned ;)

Cheers.

Ethan

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

Joe Manna — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:59:43 -0000

Ethan,

I have to commend the transparent, clear discussion you've shared with your customers regarding a significant product change. This is a great sign of more things to come.

Great video, and looking forward to point #2. :-)

~Joe

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

Ethan Bloch — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:27:37 -0000

Hi Joel,

Thank you for your feedback, it really means a lot. I would love to bring back the landing page tool "new and better" once we have the resources to allocate to it.

Ping me via. email ethan (at) flowtown (dot) com and I'll be sure to keep you personally updated re: progress.

Cheers.

Ethan

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

Ethan Bloch — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:25:16 -0000

Hi Andy,

Amazing feedback!! thank you :)

We're going to be doing some really exciting things around the follow-up marketing space from within Flowtown, so stay tuned.

P.S. Would love to chat via. phone and get your feedback re: new features and roadmap. Feel free to send me an email and we'll connect - ethan (at) flowtown (dot) com

Cheers.

Ethan

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

Joel Andren — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:06:44 -0000

Count me as one of those disappointed about the direction away from the landing page tool. I had logged in on Sunday to set one up to harvest e-mail addresses from a Google adwords campaign.

BUT.... until I'm willing to pay for a product (and I wasn't there yet), you're quite smart to pivot to where the pain is greatest. Best of luck on this new direction and I hope the landing page tool makes a reappearance soon.

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

AndyBeard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:47:31 -0000

I can see some real benefit in the metrics and being able to segment based upon various social media activity.
But these are things that interest marketing geeks like me, and I can see a marketing geek wanting this data within their current applications such as Infusionsoft.
I must admit my own initial review was that the landing page creator could be useful as long as I could use my own email service/crm and integrate it with other systems.

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

Ethan Bloch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:38:06 -0000

Thank you for the support Chris!

Cheers.

Ethan

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

Match Point Tennis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:11:31 -0000

Awesome stuff guys! Now that could be powerful. Smart move.

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

Dan Martell — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:32:43 -0000

I couldn't have said it better.

Our goal as a company has always been to create things people want, and to be focused on quantitative (business metrics) and qualitative (customer interviews) feedback cycle.

I'm personally super excited about the product pivot - and hope everyone will give it a try.

Were pushing new features daily and listening very carefully.

Please leave a comment with your thoughts.