Zend Sales Blog

Here’s the first blog entry from the Zend sales side of things. We don’t often write about this part of the business as geeky entries tend to predominate these pages. So I’ll shed a little light on what goes on in the Tel Aviv sales department in Zend.

Fridays tend to be quiet here as many customers seem to play low key today. After answering the emails from yesterday, I make some calls to downloaders of the Zend products and see how the install went. Nice call to a large British professional society who is testing the Studio and Platform and are considering moving from Java to PHP (nice idea guys) and this would bring some good business if it happens like they say, in a few months.

The usual rash of tech support and licensing issues calls came in by email and chat. We could spend hours just answering support questions from Chinese and Indian downloaders of the Optimizer. Someday these markets may produce significant numbers for us if we ever learn how to tap them, and if they have the budget to buy our applications.

I found out from MocoNews that Extreme Mobile is to start operations soon and see that their front end site is in php. Got the contact name and will see what we can do together.

The rest of the afternoon will be taken up by some more calls to customers, and also some research on new markets we want to branch out to. This is an essential part of our efforts as we try to enhance the already strong demand with new sources of business.

The Zend Business Conference in London earlier in July was a big success from our end. Had the chance to meet lots of our existing customers personally, and also some new ones. The reviews were overall positive and many attendees wanted to see more conferences of this sort in the future. We hope to oblige. We get the impression that php use is growing rapidly in the UK, as evidenced by a sharp demand for developers. Maintaining a high profile in the market will motivate developers to use the Zend solutions for their work.

Hope to come back rather often with new entries and news tidbits on Sales from Zend.

-Howard