General Consultant Discussion

Please do me a favor and if you're speaking to a vendor - do not give out the list of 90 Minds members or suggest they call other members. If members are interested they will read what you have written here and contact the vendor. I have some vendors who call me every week to ask whether I'm interested in taking on their product. I've found these discussions work best when I have a customer actively seeking a solution. I've never been able to work it the other way around where I start out from ground zero to market to (for example) lumber companies with an add-on. Not to say you haven't but it just never works for me and talking to vendors in advance about add-ons where there isn't a current need is generally a waste of my time and these conversations just drag on a lot longer than they should.. YMMV

And this applies equally to Sage. Perfect example is Inventory Advisor, which is the new hot app according to them. I'm not seeing an overwhelming need to justify it.

When they were talking about Inventory Advisor early successes my thoughts were that they captured a lot of low hanging fruit. What's potentially nice about it is that it's subscription. If it doesn't work the customer can cancel (with the prescribed notice which I think might be 3 months). But yes I don't see a lot of people clamoring for this - partly because many customers struggle to keep an accurate inventory.