Cleo: Moving data
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Has any one heard of or worked with Cleo?
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Cleo makes it easy! With more than 35 years of experience and more than 100,000 proven and tested installations worldwide, Cleo offers enterprise integration software solutions that are exceptionally easy to install and use. Cleo solutions handle the most comprehensive requirements of enterprise and multi-enterprise integration and include a library of more than 800 pre-configured secure connections to speed your implementation. Cleo has solutions for enterprise data integration, enterprise managed file transfer, secure file sharing, and interactive engagement. Regardless of the size or complexity of your integration needs, Cleo has the right solution for you.
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No, have not heard of them. What do you want to use them for?
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@scottalanmiller said:
No, have not heard of them. What do you want to use them for?
I've not looked at them. One of the directors got a email from a regional sales person about a phone call.
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""I was hoping to set up a brief call with you tomorrow morning and share how thousands of companies use Cleo to manage their file transfer processes. The 2 minute video below provides a quick introduction.Cleo Managed File Transfer
Please let me know if the 10AM time works for you. If you think there is someone else I should speak with, I would greatly appreciate an introduction. Thanks in advance!""
</email excerpt>It was forwarded to me - 35 years and only 100,000 installs? seems rather light.
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Oh, that's spam. Why did anyone take that call?
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No one did that I know of. It was just a email. But having not heard of them before, wondered if anyone else had.
It's not something I'm interested in.... but was curious if anyone had heard of them.
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@g.jacobse said:
No one did that I know of. It was just a email. But having not heard of them before, wondered if anyone else had.
It's not something I'm interested in.... but was curious if anyone had heard of them.
Just by the nature of that email this is not someone I would ever, EVER do business with. That "when can we schedule a time to talk" line is an immediate "never getting our business" move. No professional software ( or any other) kind of firm will ever pull that. Email advertising is questionable at best, but that pushy, ridiculous move is overdone and out of the question. We get a few of those from debt collection and marketing firms all of the time. Guarantees they will never get to speak to us.
I would avoid these people based on that alone. That they don't do any clear task is pretty big too. You should never have to sit down with a sales person to discover what software does. Can't imagine any scenario where they would ever be worth considering for anything.
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I agree - that type of message just tells me that I don't want to partner with you. But it is a form of cold calling...
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just by the nature of that email this is not someone I would ever, EVER do business with. That "when can we schedule a time to talk" line is an immediate "never getting our business" move. No professional software ( or any other) kind of firm will ever pull that. Email advertising is questionable at best, but that pushy, ridiculous move is overdone and out of the question. We get a few of those from debt collection and marketing firms all of the time. Guarantees they will never get to speak to us.
I would avoid these people based on that alone. That they don't do any clear task is pretty big too. You should never have to sit down with a sales person to discover what software does. Can't imagine any scenario where they would ever be worth considering for anything.
I've had Sharefile do this to me (and three other people at my office) twice now. I can't stand this marketing tactic...
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@g.jacobse said:
I agree - that type of message just tells me that I don't want to partner with you. But it is a form of cold calling...
It sure is, something that we block completely. There is good and bad cold calling, though. If you cold call me and ask to speak to me, I'm not going to be pissed, I'll just hang up. But if you cold call and demand to set something up rather than politely asking if we can.... we are done and you are actively blocked and will never get our business.
There is legitimate sales and downright unprofessional "never do business with them" sales. A company doing these tactics definitely does not believe in their own product and is trying to get sales through an intimidation style rather than through presenting a good product.
