Frustrating Software and Tech as a revenue driver

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dontcryforme

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I've often felt that some tech companies, especially software companies, are deliberately bad and this is successful in driving revenue. Something like a Matrix effect where The Architect describes human nature in a white room full of screens.

Like the many major flaws of Samsung - phones going boom. Or like most accounting software that has very limited features and in the case of cloud based business software having some sort of outage on a daily basis. Or banks (or Substandard Bank) having a total outage every single month end on payday. I am stuck on S's, I know. Yet, Samsung, Sage and Substandard Bank are some of the biggest companies in their specific field - region dependent.

Having your name mentioned a million times is great for SEO - even if negative - as search engines do not look at context when indexing.

Two weeks ago we made a mistake with software I work on, not a big one, but enough to create a bit of a buzz and increase signups with double digit growth.

Vent over. Sadness continues.
 
dontcryforme said:
I've often felt that some tech companies, especially software companies, are deliberately bad and this is successful in driving revenue. Something like a Matrix effect where The Architect describes human nature in a white room full of screens.

Like the many major flaws of Samsung - phones going boom. Or like most accounting software that has very limited features and in the case of cloud based business software having some sort of outage on a daily basis. Or banks (or Substandard Bank) having a total outage every single month end on payday. I am stuck on S's, I know. Yet, Samsung, Sage and Substandard Bank are some of the biggest companies in their specific field - region dependent.

Having your name mentioned a million times is great for SEO - even if negative - as search engines do not look at context when indexing.

Two weeks ago we made a mistake with software I work on, not a big one, but enough to create a bit of a buzz and increase signups with double digit growth.

Vent over. Sadness continues.
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The personal software revolution is coming...
 
dontcryforme said:
I've often felt that some tech companies, especially software companies, are deliberately bad and this is successful in driving revenue. Something like a Matrix effect where The Architect describes human nature in a white room full of screens.

Like the many major flaws of Samsung - phones going boom. Or like most accounting software that has very limited features and in the case of cloud based business software having some sort of outage on a daily basis. Or banks (or Substandard Bank) having a total outage every single month end on payday. I am stuck on S's, I know. Yet, Samsung, Sage and Substandard Bank are some of the biggest companies in their specific field - region dependent.

Having your name mentioned a million times is great for SEO - even if negative - as search engines do not look at context when indexing.

Two weeks ago we made a mistake with software I work on, not a big one, but enough to create a bit of a buzz and increase signups with double digit growth.

Vent over. Sadness continues.
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Quality is secondary to how well your brand is known.

Businesses will pride themselves on the 1000 5 star Google reviews, despite their being 600 1 and 2 star ones.

Everything is deteriorating.
 
Bliksis said:
Quality is secondary to how well your brand is known.

Businesses will pride themselves on the 1000 5 star Google reviews, despite their being 600 1 and 2 star ones.

Everything is deteriorating.
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Nail hit on the head. Branding is everything. Marketing is important and smaller businesses would need to understand what the big guys are doing and get creative on top of that to save in costs and overheads.
 
branding takes forever, it does not happend over night.
 
dontcryforme said:
I've often felt that some tech companies, especially software companies, are deliberately bad and this is successful in driving revenue. Something like a Matrix effect where The Architect describes human nature in a white room full of screens.

Like the many major flaws of Samsung - phones going boom. Or like most accounting software that has very limited features and in the case of cloud based business software having some sort of outage on a daily basis. Or banks (or Substandard Bank) having a total outage every single month end on payday. I am stuck on S's, I know. Yet, Samsung, Sage and Substandard Bank are some of the biggest companies in their specific field - region dependent.

Having your name mentioned a million times is great for SEO - even if negative - as search engines do not look at context when indexing.

Two weeks ago we made a mistake with software I work on, not a big one, but enough to create a bit of a buzz and increase signups with double digit growth.

Vent over. Sadness continues.
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Shows me people dont read. thye see somerting, they click on it. they dont care to be honest.
 
Bliksis said:
Quality is secondary to how well your brand is known.

Businesses will pride themselves on the 1000 5 star Google reviews, despite their being 600 1 and 2 star ones.

Everything is deteriorating.
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Look, a good marketer - to their credit - will spin it as "Are those 600 1 and 2 star ratings or 600 times we took valuable feedback and used that as an opportunity to improve?"
 
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