Shim: Read.ai has connected millions of Gmail and Outlook accounts
“In tiny now for Gmail, as well as for outlook, you can actually connect your accounts and we have millions of accounts that people have actually connected.”
Alina Vandenberg says European and Outlook-using prospects close significantly slower
“We also observe that we're gonna sell less well if, sorry, they're based in Europe, they take forever to close. If they're on Outlook, for some reason, people that use Outlook, they're a lot slower to make decisions as well and if they're a traditional company…”
Removing branding from confirmation pages boosted Boomerang's conversion rate to 14%
“We took out all the bright color buttons. Branding is gone. No marketing info. We kept the original one line schedule meetings with Boomerang. And it went up from one percent to basically 20, blended across maybe like 14% because we have less Outlook users in …”
Evans: Digital transformation changes workflows, not just tool providers
“And it's not that you move from Outlook to Gmail. It's that you stop sending email. And it's not that you move from Excel to Google Sheets. It's that you're not emailing spreadsheets around anymore. It's that you move to software that kind of captures what tha…”
Sinofsky: iPad Outlook app has features missing from Windows desktop Outlook
“The Outlook that got updated today that's on my iPad, like, has connections to Facebook events and Evernote, which aren't things that exist in the Outlook that I would use on my Windows desktop.”
Email startups must reach intense feature parity with Gmail to succeed
“In order to have a product that people will use for their individual emails, you need to get to a level of feature parity with Gmail or Outlook that's pretty intense”
Nimble signs deal with Microsoft to resell CRM through Outlook VARs
“We just signed a deal with Microsoft where they became a reseller of Nimble. Microsoft has started to resell Nimble with Outlook through their VARs And they're going to gift their VARs Nimble, so that their VARs can be better, smarter, faster at sales and mark…”
Soltero: Microsoft will modernize email into a beloved medium within five years
“Over the next five years, we're here to make email awesome, and really take this incredibly powerful and pervasive medium that, that we often sort of complain about and hate and really turn it into something that people genuinely love and feel like it has adap…”