I am a paid to blog about Marqui see the last paragraph for my disclaimer!
I get phone calls from time to time from sales reps or customers asking to speak to someone in sales and I say you are on the phones with sales, the next call could ask for the CEO and I say he’s speaking. I am sure you all get the point that their are a great number of small companies out including mine that are basically mom and pop shops.
I have a friend who has a small company with 3 employees, he does 99% of his business on the Internet. He said when people call they imagine they are calling a bigger company, with rent so high here in Hawaii they are in fact working out his extended family room in his home. He has accomplished this selling Hawaiian products via the Internet. He attributes his success to a website that is very much up to date and contains new content on a regular basis.
So I described in detail the Tools that Marqui has built into their CMS product, and asked him if he is able to leverage anything he has built into his current website infrastructure that will match what Marqui has available today.
He said no and nervously laughed. I went on to talk about Marqui, he was intrigued and agreed with my line of thinking that I have developed over the past week. My thought was this, if I were opening a new business and wanted to assure that my branding and office communications management would be in place from Day 1 I would be a fool not to employ a CMS solution. I have came to that conclusion by playing with their demonstration site.
Looking back at some business ventures I have been involved with in the past, I realized I would have slept better back then, knowing that from the outside at least those new ventures would look like a seasoned company.
Having worked with collaboration tools like Groove before, I realize now that Groove may have been great for internal discussions and decision making, but it sure would have been sweet to have had a web component that Marqui has.
I originally thought Marqui was only for big companies and the more I look at it, the more I think it may have more bang for the buck for a small company than a big one. I would recommend if your a small company that is getting smashed in the market place and you think it is because your web site is not keeping up with technology changes, then you need to talk to the folks I know at Marqui.
Feel free to e-mail me at geek@geeknewscentral.com and I will get you hooked up with the people that count. [www.marqui.com]
As a disclaimer I am paid to blog about Marqui and have spent considerable time digging into the features and procedures that it utilized to manage content and the communications tools. As part of our contract we are told we can write anything positive or negative about the product. It has been my goal from day 1 to give you my honest and fair assessment of the product.