ShareMouse Reviews

Posted by 22111
Nov 26, 2013 at 10:46 AM

These days on bit, “BeyondShare Pro”, from “Fevosoft”, aka liuxz.com, Beijing: clipboard sharing between computers within a network; of course, if you transfer files by usb stick, or if you connect your computers by LAN, depends on your further needs (keyboard sharing, monitor sharing, frequency of the need to share clipboard content or files; there is (free) Synergy for all this, too, and ShareMouse, whilst BS, as far as I see, is just for file transfer). So I discovered that ShareMouse (from the developers of that text expander for about 140 dollars often mentioned here) has got a new version 2, and so I looked up “reviews”, and as in many cases, it’s CNet where any reviews could be found.

And here I made a discovery from which I, not wanting to insinuate anything about what I found there, but totally independently from that, took some “advice” I’d like to share, since outliner developers could learn from it, marketing-wise, “it” being my ideas, not what is there to admire.

Now the old ShareMouse reviews on cnet.com were mitigated but relegated to the bottom, and of interest, 7 RAVE REVIEWS on top (= most recent first, that’s why). I looked into them, and their style seemed rather similar, 7 times 5 stars, 7 times a style that more or less reminds me of “marketing speak”, 5 times “Pros” and “Cons” - and especially the “Cons” - done in a certain way without not too much variation - bear in mind these ain’t facts but just my totally subjective “impression”, or better call it “paranoia”.

So I clicked on the 7 authors of those 7 reviews:

cocoonmongolia’s community profile
ShareMouse Mouse and Keyboard Sharing
“Very useful for anyone with multiple computers.”
User’s Rating 5 stars
February 14, 2013
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rvossel’s community profile
ShareMouse Mouse and Keyboard Sharing
“A seamless solution”
User’s Rating 5 stars
March 21, 2013
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September 15, 2002
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CardFire’s community profile
ShareMouse Mouse and Keyboard Sharing
“Smooth, clever, powerful. The Successor of Synergy.”
User’s Rating 5 stars
March 21, 2013
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bcampbell131’s community profile
ShareMouse Mouse and Keyboard Sharing
“Great Software that is truly cross platform”
User’s Rating 5 stars
October 31, 2013
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November 16, 2009
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darnelld9832’s community profile
ShareMouse Mouse and Keyboard Sharing
“Share Mouse is the perfect solution to Multiple macs”
User’s Rating 5 stars
November 4, 2013
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jgarbers’s community profile
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“Effortless installation; really hit the sweet spot”
User’s Rating 5 stars
November 5, 2013
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October 8, 2003
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seidmadur’s community profile
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“Simply the best!”
User’s Rating 5 stars
November 7, 2013
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It goes without saying that these 7 different authors, with their max. of 35 points, greatly enhanced the overall point number of ShareMouse, besides their unbiased reviews certainly greatly pushing current and future sales of ShareMouse.

Now what can outliner developers learn from my totally aberrant musings about the above?

(In the above, the term “review” goes without quotes; from here, imagine quotes around it:)

- Write your own reviews.
- Or rather, have your friends write these reviews, and do not too much editing work on their writings, some clumsiness will greatly enhance the trustworthyness of these reviews
- You could have done it by staff if you have no friends, but bear in mind that after letting off your staff, they could be in the mood to speak about your scheme
- Also bear in mind the following aspect:
- It will be even better if some of these friends have different native languages, which will vary their English wordings/expressions
- Whilst your staff will probably all be of your own first language (and your possible friends too, perhaps)
- It goes without saying that native (English) speakers have some advantage over other nationalities here
- Do not give the max. number of stars invariably
- Do find some minor faults, preferably totally irrelevant for most prospective users, and name them, perhaps this point in some review, and some other minute point in another review, and have even one of the reviews giving one of those, and a third.
- Prepare your scoop by having some of your friends register years before (see some of the above, no relationship but it gave me my idea, als for all this advice here…!)
- Have them do reviews about other products, too (even if that might appear both too much effort, and dispensable)
- Have them do different numbers of reviews over the years, and in different frequency
- Have some of them do reviews within a certain range of products to which your own product belongs, have others do disparate reviews of “all” kinds of products
- In a word, VARY !
- And this also applies to reviews of competing products or third-party products in general: Some reviews should be good, some bad, some long, some short…

In a word, be plausible in cheating your prospective customers!