by John J. Walters

When I took over MeetingCaptain it was only a partially-developed concept of a company in a competitive market.  Since then we have added a lot of new features and overhauled the central program but done little to make it marketable to the common man.  The site doesn’t quite tell you enough about the service, and things are still a little less intuitive and bug-free than I would like.  Clearly, we still have some work to do.

On the plus side, we are on our way towards a “version 3.0.”  We have detailed plans for improvement of the program itself as well as the website.  We are developing a marketing strategy to get it into the hands of you, the business professional who wants help with meetings but probably doesn’t yet know we exist.  On the negative side, we are also working on getting the investment and support we need to turn these plans into reality.  I am confident, but nothing is certain in this world.

Included in our plans to improve MeetingCaptain:

• A more intuitive profile setup that will make MC work the way you want it.
• Improvements and streamlining to the meeting creation process.
• Creation of a new “meeting interface” that will make MC a destination for meetings as well as a way to organize and follow-up on them.

Of course, we’ll still be offering out free trial, and we won’t be changing the fact that it’s free to participate in meetings.  We also are sticking with our price point of $5 per month for meeting organizers, which may be proof that we either have no idea what we’re doing or don’t like money as much as our competitors.  Most importantly, we are keeping everything “in the cloud,” which means you will never have to download any software or upgrade your computer to use our service.

Finally, I will continue to blog about how meetings suck and why they don’t have to, even if I continue to be our only regular reader for a little while.  Why?  Because I know that eventually someone who needs the information will find it.  That’s the nature of the internet — and the nature of MeetingCaptain.  We actually do feel passionate about making meetings better for everyone.

Here’s hoping we get to continue.

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