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Providing support for your product is one of the keystones of building your ISV

Closes Sales by Clarifying Product Issues and Selling Your Company
Providing free tech support during the initial 30 day trial period by clarifying minor confusions about your product, but its also a time to introduce yourself, as a company, or at least a person within a company, in whom they can trust.

Invaluable Feedback
You can either program in the dark, trusting your gut as to what the world needs, or thinks about your products, or you can pay for expensive (read, practically useless) surveys, or you can turn the cost of tech support to your advantage by using it to listen to your customers to know what they they need, how they feel your product is answering their needs, and what they think of your pricing choices. 
This feedback, if done live (over the phone, remote assistance, etc) is much more valuable than any survey because its targetted to actual users, or at least potential buyers.
Their feedback, if you carefully listen, should give you a clear understanding of what is not clear to end users, what to add, what to remove, and how to price it.  All this can be gleamed while chatting away while remote assisting. 
Not a bad way to turn an expense into an asset, no?

 


             
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Remote Assistance over the web is an excellent way to connect with your clients.
Not only does it allow you to fix the problem quickly, it also allows you insight into how your clients are using your software, giving you ideas on how to add features to deliver an even better v2.x.
Below are several tools that you may find interesting in this regard.
Note that you are definately looking for a simple simple solution that allows you to remotely connect to their desktop, chat with them (even sound is available with some, such as LogMeIn) explaining what you are doing, and if the service offers FileTransfer, you can download their config files or other and unjam them if they got messed up.
Basically, with Remote Assistance, you'll save yourself a ton of frustrating emails...at the cost of actually having to organize an intervention time that fits both parties (tough to do if you are just starting your company and still working for soneone else...).

             
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