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I would like to see a blog post describing how it has worked for the company, with a link to the CEO page.

But this seems like a great idea!

The short answer is that we've made a (philosophical) decision to stay right in our highly technical niche and not gussy up our site, or product, with all of the things you might expect to see.

This resonates very well with the people that find us and will eventually use us, but the people that make decisions and pay us are not impressed with what they see.

So if we're not going to put up the PDF whitepapers and the product tour videos that they want to see ... how do we bridge that gap ?

That's where the CEO page comes in.

Guess what: this page is the one that made me look at what you do, and realize that I will probably use your services.

I'm building a tech specs/req for a gov project. It's exhausting to distill the information down into a presentable format.

This makes _my_ job easier, thank you.

I'm a recent law graduate researching warrant canaries. Is there a contact at your company I can be put in touch with?

You can email info@rsync.net.

I'd be interested in hearing of any warrant canaries that disappeared.

That's a very interesting statement that can be read many, many ways... It may pay to clarify your background a little.

I'm a recent law graduate (- but I now work for the NSA...) researching warrant canaries (- and looking at ways to deal with these companies)

It may be a bit conspiracy-theory, but current affairs suggest it is certainly not outside the realms of possibility.

I can't say I'm a lawyer because I am awaiting MPRE (ethics and professionalism) test results in two weeks. I would be in very big trouble if I did call myself a lawyer before that time so I can say I'm a JD and a law graduate (and bar passer) but not a lawyer or put that badass Esq. (esquire) by my name yet.

So I'm guessing that the technical folks in the company send a link to this page to their CEO in order to convince them of the purchase?

How often would the CEO even be involved? Very small companies excepted, I would think this would be something entirely delegated to the CTO, manager, or whoever is in charge of technology in the organization.

Lots of CEOs want to rubber stamp things in SMid companies even if they're actually not doing the cost/benefit themselves. This page probably comes in handy for the CTO/MGR who has to get that rubber stamp from the CEO. (that's my guess at least)

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