Six months later, 100% caught up

Over six months ago I began the long process of activating everyone interested in Shockey Monkey, provisioning it for them, getting feedback, integrating it into the solution, learning about their business, learning about their management and processes. This was undoubtedly interesting to a LOT of you, a LOT more than I could handle. But, six months later I am 100% caught up. Thats right, everyone that wanted to ride the monkey got the chance and everyone is up and running (or at least waiting for CSR/certificate provisioning)

So, where do we go from here?

Well, first of all, the web page needs some serious tender love and care. That will be the project of the week because it will alow me to deliver the training materials that you’ll need to make the most out of the Shockey Monkey. Remember folks, it’s not about the tool. As much as I’ve done to build this on best practices and SMB features, it is all about your discipline and your implementation.

I’m also considering making Shockey Monkey an invitation-only software for the remainder of the free period. I’d actually like your opinion on this one. The only reason people were denied Shockey Monkey so far is because they did not appear to be able to follow simple directions or didn’t seem to run a real IT business. Perhaps it’s just my bias but I figure that if you can’t even put together a web site for your own business you have no business consulting anyone else on their IT solutions. And because Shockey Monkey is meant to be built by the way the best run their businesses it wouldn’t make sense to dilute it with people that are struggling with the concept of SSL certificates and filling out HTML forms. Maybe you’ll see that as insensitive and mean, but this is business we’re talking about here and I don’t think anyone would expect anything but the best.

So, thinking about making it invitation only – that way at least there is some anecdotal info on you being more than a hotmail.com alias.