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Inquire.ly - form to mini-CRM in seconds, BETA testers wanted

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Your marketing page is an image?

i know, it's less than ideal, it was a case of getting it up and attracting interest, and whilst it's clearly not the best way of doing it, we wanted to invest the time in developing the product.. rest assured it's not going to stay that way!

What's with this trend of using TLDs from places like Libya?

It might give you a cute sounding domain, but when you're using it as part of the product name you're going to be stuck with it for a long time. Remember when `vb.ly` was seized by the Libyan government for pretty much no reason?

For us it was really just a case of getting an interesting domain with a keyword around what we do, we're all about managing inquiries, and all the nice .com's are taken, it seems to work, and TLD's are becoming less related to countries as the fight for the nice .com's heats up...

Just noticed your addition regarding `vb.ly` and had a quick route around, it seems that they seized it due to it containing content that fell outside of Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law.

I don't think we'll have any issues with this as we're not linking off to any content we don't know about.

Doesn't the thought of your product being governed by "Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law" worry you at all?

Well i don't think it's the product, it was the content, and in our case, all content is going to be about the product, so i think it's a non-issue in our case, these other url shortening sites are linking to content that could be deemed inappropriate in most countries...

It's one of those things that for a b2b service, if I have to even think about it, I will most likely just not sign up and go with an alternative.

What if you make an infographic tomorrow for your blog that has a semi-racy picture? Now I have no idea if that violates Libya's policies. But for me I'd like to have one fewer thing to worry about when I goto bed.

Great idea. How does it integrate with Gmail?

At the moment the vision is to avoid them going into Gmail, or other email clients/services at all, other than sending an email notifying you of a new inquiry...

We believe that managing them in Gmail is ok, but we've found it to be less than reliable, it's easy to un-star an important email and forget it never existed, or indeed miss an inquiry due to spam filters etc...

However i'd be interested in hearing why Gmail integration would be good for you?

Fascinating. So your system acts as an email client too effectively? That is mission-critical. I built a system similar to this for my last business and have wondered why no one (even Salesforce!) have not offered it. I would love to talk further. How can I get in touch with you guys?

twitter bootstrap makes another appearance!

It does indeed, everyone loves Twitter Bootstrap! but don't be fooled, we're working on making things look much slicker for launch.

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