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Grow your network with Rapportive

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23 pointsabraham7 comments

This blog exhibits one of the major problems I have with startup blogs that aren't hosted on the site of the product (and even some that are actually hosted there): the lack of navigation to your product has stopped me from visiting your site.

I click on the word Rapportive on top expecting to be taken to the site but no I am stuck on the blog, I even went so far as to look in the article for a link but found none.

These blogs can be great for getting your product out there but it really sucks when they make navigating to that product harder.

/Offtopic

It is not a problem with the blog (hosted or not) it is an issue with the startups implementing them.

The precise thought and passion that goes into the product should affect all aspects of the startup including blogs, Twitter accounts, about pages, etc.

wwortiz, that's a good point. Posterous supports themes, so we should use those to make it easier to find our product.

I'm a pretty heavy user of Rapportive (I built http://crm.raplet.info to make it into what I needed). But I worry that the silicon valley mindset (where everyone is on LinkedIn, Twitter) is holding the product back to some extent. When I deal with large sluggish institutions (schools, government), Rapportive struggles to find any relevant information on the people I'm talking with.

ultrasaurus, thanks for this! Do you mind if I follow up by email to ask you a few questions about how you email? I'm at rahul@rapportive.com

Also, I just got crm.raplet.info working (I don't think it did last time I tried). Looks great so far :)

When I click on the link in your install procedure 2. I get an error message "We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly."

Thanks — I'll follow up with you about this at @hello_world

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