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What was your experience as a first-time tool/SaaS buyer for your team/company?
I remember my first time suggesting, vetting, and finding a collaboration solution for an agency I was working at. We ended up purchasing Miro as our solution, but it started really small. I was the first to buy with my own credit card, I then invited my team, they loved it, had to ask leadership for the company card to get the smaller team on, and after a few months, almost everyone at the ~40 sized person company had an account.
Did others have a similar experience?
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Hello, good question!
I've notice the same pattern works best.
Get approval from management to try out in a small team. Then as the service proves useful, more people will adopt it.
Even in a small team there might be resistance in adopting new services and even harder, changing to a new service.
I "blame" it on human default to conserve energy - stay alive for longer. Especially if the work done is under high pressure. Any change to the "mechanism" - way of doing things feels dangerous even though we know there is a better way.
It's up to the explorers - Innovators to go check for alternatives, better solutions and then to get more of your team there. 🙌
What intrigues me is how a SaaS can infiltrate a company using the same principle.
Find a small team ready to try out new things - > provide value - > organic growth.
Have a productive day!
Looking for a better way to plan remote meetings across time zones, and keep up with events. What software is doing that best today?
Totally agree. People want to maintain what's been working even if the alternative may 'work better' – takes a lot of energy to shift that.