Tonight I did a demo of SurveyGizmo at the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup. I was fortunate to get a few laugh lines, but the credit really goes to Scott for putting together some nice screen shots and helping me work out exactly what to present.
A typical client demo or webinar can go on for up to an hour. Cramming the highlights into five minutes was like explaining the intricacies of quantum mechanics as “basically, a lot of weird unpredictable stuff happens.”
It’s especially gratifying to hear what David Cohen had to say:
Thank The Magic Diety in the Sky for SurveyGizmo, who is doing well and is having an open house at their new digs in downtown Boulder later this week. The room erupted with glee when they showed actual technology that was cool, as well as “a demo of Keynote transitions.” SurveyGizmo has a very deep and well established product for creating, managing, and analyzing surveys. If you’ve experienced Survey Monkey, it’s kinda like that but has a more “enterprise” feel and is targeted slightly upmarket. It has nice-to-have features such as two-way Salesforce integration and stuff like scalability (they currently handle 20-40k responses per minute). Pricing ranges from free to $159/month. Go check it out if you need to find out what people think, and you need it to be real.
Thanks David! See you Friday?
September 23rd, 2007
Derek
I’ve been wondering about this myself, then Dave supplied the answer:
Now if you showed that diagram to most educated people, they probably would call it a network, and before we talked about social graphs we called them social networks, and you know what — they’re exactly the same thing, and social network is a much less confusing term, so why don’t we just stick with it? (Answer: we should, imho.)
This morning I had coffee with Alycia Jackson of Keybank. I met Alycia through Colorado Business Leads, and we’re working on a joint promotion with a few other members.
Alycia handles both business and consumer banking. Keybank has tons of products for small businesses, including free checking (even free checks!), merchant accounts and a huge variety of loans. (Need a boat?)
Also, Alycia is quite the traveler, having spent several years in Thailand teaching English. Give her a call at 303-984-0421.
Today I met with Mary Heidbrier of MLJ Financial, whom I originally met through Colorado Business Leads.
MLJ Financial specializes in health insurance for small businesses. Mary brings a very interesting perspective to the business. Prior to joining MLJ, she managed a doctor’s office. There she got an up-close-and-personal look at the insurance companies, learning exactly what they cover and, more important, how well or badly they treat their customers.
So if you’re looking for health insurance, make sure you give Mary a ring at 303-440-0399 ext. 13