Zoho is arguably the ONLY global product to come out of India from ANY company, and its a sweet product. It gives mighty Google Apps a run for their money; and Zoho’s Creator is a path breaking innovative product.
So why is VentureWoods not talking more about Zoho? Is it because of lack of awareness of Zoho? Or is it because of lack of glamor due to being non VC funded?
Questions:
1. Have you used Zoho?
2. Will you consider using any of their products for daily work? Why? Why Not?
3. Do you think Zoho can take on Google Apps or is the Google brand too big and Google quality too good?
4. What is the marketing advise you would give Zoho to gain a fair share of the applications space?
Note: I have nothing to do with Zoho, don’t know anyone there, but do use their products and I think they are brilliant.
21 August: Techcrunch reports Zoho making their services available offline; and check out what poster no. 8 in that thread has to say: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/21/zoho-goes-offline-in-a-good-way/
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Thanks, everyone!
Shabbir : Read the following posts by our CEO on Zoho’s strategy.
http://blogs.zoho.com/general/zoho-challenging-the-software-world/
http://blogs.zoho.com/general/so-what-does-this-mean-for-zoho/
RYK : The WOM is not as viral as in a social network, yes. But the easy collaboration over the web where you can share documents with others allows for Zoho to spread somewhat. And yeah, we love WOM / bloggers. Please do spread the word on Zoho 🙂
how does one get WOM going for a product like Zoho? This is not social networking where users can invite each other
I went to Zoho (heard about them from your message) today. They do seem to have an impressive array of tools and I also like the concept a lot.
They certainly can do with a little more publicity and adoption. The best marketing for them would be word-of-mouth.
I believe Zoho was one of the first in its kind – online office application. Beautifully done product. Have not had any issues so far and don’t intend to switch to Google Apps in the near future either. Just that what happened to technocrati, I wish it does not happen to Zoho. I am sure they have plan to be in the market profitably for long. All the best to them!
I am using zoho writer, it suffices my need and i am happy working with it