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Re: NoteMap -- Greg, it's time for Ver. 3
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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.
Outliners.com Message ID: 4231
Posted by daly_de_gagne
2005-09-29 01:01:59
Greg, thanks for the post. I have started to use NoteMap, and am reminded why I liked one-pane outliners in the Mac world.
The product feels good,overall.
I think you have a pricing problem, and a positioning problem.
The price is too high for an outliner for the general market.
Combine that with the fact that your marketing is by and large directed at the legal market, where the lawyers more readily see the advantage of Case Map, and I think you have the parameters of the problem established.
I like your suggestion of pitching to school districts. Also universities, where there is a crisis of sorts because incoming students don’t know how to organize and write (and those are the brighter students very often).
Consider arrangements with text book publishers to bundle your software on a disk that goes shrink wrapped with the books, or the inclusion of a license code.
I would be glad to make some specific suggestions, and to provide some reference letters that might be helpful in the Canadian market.
NoteMap, perhaps under a different name, should be positioned to other markets.
Incidentally, having tried CaseMap some time back, even though I am not a lawyer and don’t have the money law offices have for such a program, I sure could make use of it in some of the advocacy work I do at the not-for-profit inner city agency I work for, as well as for pro bono work I do, for low income (or people not even in the money economy) who are having serious issues with social service agencies. I’ve got two cases going now with children’s aid agencies (in one case there’s two agencies with conflicting jurisdictions). This advocacy work is very complex at times, and CaseMap would be a boon.
Again, thanks for taking the time to bring us up to date.
Daly