Re: renewals

From: Scott Allan (sallan@opensrs.org)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 12:07:36 EST


At 12:19 PM 1/3/01 -0700, Dave Warren wrote:

> > Trying to *own* customers through restrictive policies is bad
> > (short-sighted) business. IMHO, the only way to *own* a customer is to
> > *earn* their business continually. Earning their business means giving
>them
> > value continually. Granted, not all customers appreciate this, but, I
> > maintain the strongest long term customers (the most valuable customers)
>do.
>
>
>Trying to convince clients to ignore NetSol invoices, ignore other random
>RSPs that email them for business, etc... Then "Ohh yeah, that OpenSRS renew
>thing is real". Most of my clients are going to get confused stupid over
>this. A well done sales pitch could convince most of them to switch without
>even wanting to :(.

A fair point. We do have to assume a reasonable level of registrant confusion.

>I have no problems letting clients move between providers, even away from
>me. But I want them to activate make the choice, I don't want them to get
>tricked into it.

If there were nefarious tactics being used, you can be sure that we would
take appropriate action quickly.

Regards,

sA
Scott Allan
Director OpenSRS
sallan@opensrs.org



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