Comments on: Vlad’s 2007 Agenda

By: Gary Scott

Gary Scott — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:10:46 +0000

Right-ON Vlad! Us geeks need to start getting more serious about “business”. The world is changing fast,and the generalist is soon to be left in his messy shop of saved cables and parts. From a 55 year old SBSer.

By: Pete Gusthao

Pete Gusthao — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:59:56 +0000

Read this once, twice.. three times.

I am giddy like a little school girl and would love to see how this takes shape.

By: Torrene

Torrene — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:47:09 +0000

That was quite a bit to read, I’m happy to see this works in Orlando but am skeptical of how this could work worldwide.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:17:19 +0000

My prediction is that you won’t pay for a single drink at SMB Nation.

By: Luke S.

Luke S. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:06:18 +0000

Man you were serious about making people think.

Noted.

I have better things to do than watch the vendor parade that SMB Nation has become but I will contact you with notes when you come back. I have a lot of ideas.

By: vlad

vlad — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:06:51 +0000

Travis,

I do realize that, however, I know my market far better than that. Nothing in my proposal/agenda is a brilliant break-through, they are just reflections of what the customers of my competitors have been screaming for months. They have also refused to be a part of the community, the community that makes up their entire user base.

When you ignore your customers you pretty soon realize you have none left to stay in business with. So what they are focusing on right now is not improving their products – far from it – they are focusing in locking people in long term contracts (1 year minimum) high ticket cost ($3K per site at least) and more antagonistic behavior.

Do you REALLY think they are going to look at MY blog and say “Wow, Vlad is showing us the light..”

F no.

-Vlad

By: Mitch Milam’s Microsoft Discussions » Blog Archive » An interesting proposal: Vladâ€™s 2007 Agenda

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:10:27 +0000

[...] Vlad Mazek wrote a post today that I think that all independent consultants and small consulting shops should review. [...]

By: MyaR

MyaR — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:18:29 +0000

That is beautiful. I wish you a lot of good luck with this project you seem to have thought through quite a bit. Could use some organizing but very solid.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:00:18 +0000

Vlad,

Please write a book.

I beg you.

You are throwing this brilliance away on a blog for $0. Do you realize you just wrote your competitors roadmap for the next year?

By: Jamison

Jamison — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:47:24 +0000

Let me know if you need help with Shockey Monkey..