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BuddyHelp was launched in this proto-Internet environment and was immediately used by businesses to provide hands-on technical support. At companies such as SaskTel, Gateway and Cablevision, customer support agents used BuddyHelp to access their customers’ computers and handle their technical support issues.

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In fairness, they also attempted to belatedly reposition the company as a smartphone competitor, abandoning their email-centric devices upon which they had created a multi-billion dollar enterprise. dotbomb crash, we abandoned the technical support marketplace and began licensing our screen-sharing technology.

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5 Simple Tactics To Make Freemium Users Pay

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Anyone, including well-healed, large companies, could offer state-of-the-art technical support for free. Not surprisingly, we received a litany of hate email from freeloaders admonishing us for taking away their free service. Thus, the initial launch of BuddyHelp did not restrict commercial usage.

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Email Dion Hinchcliffe Subscribe to Enterprise Web 2.0 via Email alerts or RSS. Novell was rated the top provider of Linux technical support. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 You can follow Dion on Twitter. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.

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