April 8, 2008
Recently, we introduced the idea of building a community for those interested in implementing applications with Zoho Creator. So as promised, we’ve built the Zoho Creator Depot site. We are planning to showcase applications in the Gallery and hold virtual meetings at least once a month. From now on, if you want to use Zoho Creator for your business and need some technical assistance or if you are skilled at developing Zoho Creator applications, consider joining the Zoho Creator Depot.
This community will function as a co-op for the benefit of all those involved and it will encourage collaboration and sharing of applications. If you see value in Zoho Creator as a platform for business applications, join us and help us move this forward, and by all means, send us your suggestions and comments.
April 26 Update
- Thanks to all of you who have registered to join the ZCD. We’ll get in touch with you shortly.
- We have received some positive feedback since introducing the idea, and based on some of your suggestions, we have decided to make the Zoho Creator Depot a part of this blog, rather than as an independent site. So here’s a link to the page we will use to register as well as request a service: Zoho Creator Depot Form
March 17, 2008
Jon Udell recently wrote an interesting blog “Where can I subscribe to a running-shoe-replacement service ? “ which as I see it amounts to a simple way of fostering Customer Retention.
This is a business opportunity. If you’re a runner, spending $100 every six (or even three) months is infinitely preferable to injury. You’d think that shoe sellers would make it easy to do that, but they don’t. I’d happily authorize regular replacements, but nobody’s ever offered me that option.
His idea is applicable not only to athletic shoes, but to many other products and/or services that you just don’t keep track of and would gladly address when your provider sent you a friendly reminder. I can think of most of the house work I don’t do myself like termite treatment, gutter cleaning or air conditioning maintenance.
Jon writes again in Missing the cluetrain emphasizing the technology shortcomings of small businesses, so we decided to develop a solution to his problem (which I’ve captured with the cool online comic Pixton tool here) with Zoho Creator and LetterMeLater.
If you want to try it, here’s the link: Running Shoe Reminder . Be sure to sign up in LetterMeLater. This app will use the email you have associated with your Zoho Id to my gmail account to relay the message to LetterMeLater, which then forwards the message:
to the email you’ve specified in the form. It is currently set up to notify you 1 minute after you’ve entered the data, but surely you can envision this working at different intervals.
This is the type of application we want to showcase in the Zoho Creator Depot.
