Beware! The Better Software Company

They called me and then spammed me about 3 times. I think there company name is something else. I told them to F*** O**

Chris I’ve been getting emails for the last couple of weeks and haven’t responded because I haven’t seen anything on here about them or there products. Thanks for the heads up on this company.

i put him on blast on Facebook a few weeks ago. This was the response…

I guess he didnt get the hint.

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I got emails a lot too. The emails were annoying but if I judged a product by the email marketing alone I wouldn’t be using WCR as they send me something constantly, almost every day it seems even though I unsubscribed. I know I’m gonna keep buying from them anyhow. good product. I found no WCR references in the emails from the better software company and no evidence anywhere of a scam but I did their one on one demo session and saw a great product. I signed up yesterday. They gave me a great deal. If you want to know details pm me. I don’t want to sound like I work for them.

What about that response is confrontational? It seems completely polite and professional.

I’ve been contacted several times by these guys, but I don’t see what the big deal is. You guys telling me you don’t get periodic marketing material from a bajillion other companies? Heck, half of us use responsibid to do exactly the same thing. And what’s wrong with cold calling potential customers?

Why is it ok for us to bump our gums about hustling to get work, but when someone else does it we get all testy about it?

Don’t want to hear from them? JUST OPT OUT.

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I can’t say I’ve ever been contacted by them, but I get calls daily, so…

Are these guys saying they are affiliated with WCR?
Or are they going the route of “I noticed you a WCR member?”

If the latter, well you get what you give, and a lot of members jump to gain the SEO juice by posting links to their companies.
(which would explain why I haven’t hear from them.)

I understand Chris’s declaration, not wanting to be associated with this co.

• I see a lot of people for some reason griping “how’d they get my name/number?!?”
  (it’s at the bottom of every post you make, genius)

If there was a website “PeopleLookingForWindowCleaners.com”

• we’d all pretty much be paying attention to it.

Yeah, doesn’t seem like blasting back to me.

I haven’t received a phone call or email since.

Yeah, I’m with Caleb. I got a couple of emails from them, they did seem like they were partnering with WCR but I just ignored them and they let me alone.

Has anyone actually tried their product? HouseCall was all up in the forum for a while so I wouldn’t mind another one poking their head in and letting us know about their product. If they actually talk to Chris, maybe he can give us the skinny.

At the very least, it’d be fun to see [MENTION=1736]JfromtheD[/MENTION] critique more software.

Actually, it should be true for most of us. Google has finally gone after “Sharon, your local Google specialist”. Let me find the article…

Oh yeah.
We should start a new section “J Review’s Stuff.”

• lets see how many “We gonna change the world” vendors I can get to blackball me.

I’m actually really happy with Responsebid…

It does exactly what is advertised… Saves you time.
For the most part it gives a realistic starting point, where you can put the blame/onus on the customer.
“Based on what you’re telling me” this is somewhere around the price we charge.

• mark your prices up, to compensate, and offer a “self quote” discount
• do a “we’ll call to confirm” when we get there
• or just take the bid as is.

I’ve never had a reasonable responsibild that I couldnt talk my way into a job.

I DONT like that they open your account with extra’s.

If anything, I’d get people used to the options/get comfortable and THEN open upgrades.

The current setup is more of a continual letdown.

I’d rather be happy with the software, and teased with upgrades…
Than to be told, “here is everything, up front, and it only goes down from here.”

what are some of the things you like about their software? how mobile is it?

if i remember right, you were a big fan of Upvise before (i may be mistaking you with someone else on that…). What made you switch to this new software?

I still like upvise but it’s not as customizable or scalable. Mostly though It’s not as promising. Upvise isn’t marketing strong towards service businesses and I get the sense that there is like 2 or 3 workers involved. Perhaps part time. Their roadmap is not very clear. Also they don’t do accounting as well or do payment processing either. For this stuff I have to use another program. The only thing upvise has over the BSC is their app. BSC has their app launch in February but until then the mobile version will do fine. I did a demo of their 2.0 version coming in a month and signed up for that. They are really pushing for growth and are trying to be an all in one software. 3.0 comes it in the spring. they seem to be more customizable than jobber or housecall and the plan I have is for unlimited users for about the same price as jobber. I signed up right now because of the black Friday deal. Otherwise the startup fee is killer.

I’ll give a thorough review of The better software company in a couple months.

any news on the better software company?