We named our product GrexIt long before someone started using the term for Greece's eurozone exit. Look for our coverage in TNW, RWW and GigaOm in March to june last year, which was before the term was coined.
If anything, the term has only hurt us by badly polluting our analytics.
I definitely like some of the capabilities that Grexit provides, but did want to note that using your email in this way (as a collaborative, task-tracking tool) is one of the worst ways to beef up your email overload, individually and as an organization. It's a question of the right tool for the right job.
Lots of companies would like to stick to a tool that they already know how to use. Even keeping GrexIt out of the picture, the tips we suggested can really help. Do give this a try.
Definitely agree, and Grexit is great for that and I do really like the tips. Not trying to denigrate here. Just pointing out it's a factor in some settings.
I understand where you are coming from, and that is one of the biggest challenges for us. We really feel that with an email centric approach, we can help companies which want to do light-weight collaboration, and are fine with trading off very rich functionality for a simple email centric workflow.
Its been a past criticism of Gmail service too, when it introduced the 'no-folders' concept. "All inter-galactic mail in one single inbox folder. You must be kidding." But slowly, one gets used to the fact its just a different way of organizing mail, and quite an efficient one at that. So if you just get your head around a new approach like Grexit, you can save the overhead of using multiple project management tools, task queues etc, and save on their respective learning curves as well. Everybody knows how to use email.
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(You can make a good product and sell it, even without succumbing to the temptations of using temptation tactics.)
Is that some form of SEO, that is, are they hoping to hijack a popular neologism?
If anything, the term has only hurt us by badly polluting our analytics.
I'd love to read a blogpost about how it affected your site and business.
Do look at our reviews on the Google Apps marketplace - we have quite a few companies as paying customers now: http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?pro...