Les 10 commentaires et tweets sur “With the Traveling Geeks @ Paris Incubator” :

• [1] - StephC a écrit le 13 décembre 2009 :

  Hi, I’m the CEO of int13 (lower case)

  Could you explain why we should add a real name contact on the website?

  About Twitter, well, we’re using this tool, but not much, it’s not really relevant in our case.

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  • [1.1] - Olivier Ezratty a répondu le 13 décembre 2009 :

    It shows that the company has real people behind it, makes it easier to get in touch with you as CEO. Anonymizing the company behind “contact@company.com” is usually not a good practice. There are obviously cons to do that (real emails in about pages), but they’re offset by the pros.

    I corrected your company name with lower caps.

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• [2] - StephC a écrit le 13 décembre 2009 :

  Well, this is interesting, but we’re already receiving too much emails and business inquiries, this may seem absurd, but we have to say “no” to most of them.

  Business guys are not that shy..

  This remind me of the old “goto considered harmful” meme, while there is some truth behind it, I don’t think we should follow all those “simplistic” rules..

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  • [2.1] - Olivier Ezratty a répondu le 13 décembre 2009 :

    It also depends on the values you want to convey: approachable, open, transparent. Or not.

    It’s not that simplistic. It’s about your communication and the image you want to create for your company.

    You can also chose to have both: contact@company.com for general inquiries, and real emails for CEO, PR person, partnerships, etc.

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    • [2.1.1] - France a répondu le 13 décembre 2009 :

      I think it’s a shame to be judged on these irrelevant details rather than what we do …
      We choose to use contact@company.com for some reasons and we don’t have to justify why, we’re not at school!

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      • [2.1.1.1] - Olivier Ezratty a répondu le 13 décembre 2009 :

        It’s not a “judgement”, just an advice! I didn’t say anything bad about your company. Your demo was fine. Shit, how susceptible you are folks! Get over it!

        Btw, I corrected my point since you have a Twitter account.

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        • [2.1.1.1.1] - France a répondu le 13 décembre 2009 :

          I see, don’t worry 🙂
          You know that french are susceptible, but hey, it’s hard to understand why the only feedback we have from Traveling geeks is about our Twitter account.
          You know that it can’t be our focus!
          In video games industry, forums, websites, youtube & Facebook are more important than Twitter. And also, we didn’t know that traveling geeks were here to discuss about our communication strategy.

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          • [2.1.1.1.1.1] - Olivier Ezratty a répondu le 13 décembre 2009 :

            1) I’m not a specialist of games. So I don’t dig specially here. We met 20+ companies in two days…
            2) I’m just one out of 12+ TGs. So my feedback is individual, not that from a group. Other feedback may follow on. Particularly if you had 1/1s with some of the TGs after your presentation.
            3) I do care about the way companies communicate and market themselves. It’s explaining half of successes or failures. You have to be prepared to be challenged here and not just with your products.

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            • [2.1.1.1.1.1.1] - Eric a répondu le 16 décembre 2009 :

              There is a pattern though… look at this rant: http://scobleizer.com/2009/12/10/world-brand-building-mistakes-frances-entrepreneurs-make/

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• [3] - Olivier Ezratty a écrit le 16 décembre 2009 :

  Was mentionned in my previous post : http://www.oezratty.net/wordpress/2009/with-the-traveling-geeks-in-paris-12/

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