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- {You asked for it, Artisoft responds}
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- Last fall, Artisoft asked registered product end users and authorized
- dealers how the company could better serve its customers. One popular
- request was for a newsletter that would address customer concerns and
- keep end users up to date on new and improved products. Peer Energy
- was born.
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- The research department is only a year old, but already Research
- Coordinator Susan Zobl has produced important results. The research
- effort began at Artisoft's Tucson headquarters, where technical support
- and sales people brainstormed over pizza with company executives to
- pass on the thoughts they heard from customers on the telephones. The
- next step was sending detailed questionnaires to dealers in the Artisoft
- distribution network and to end users drawn at random from the
- company's database of registered endusers. Some of the research turned
- up good news. Customer satisfaction with LANtastic's ease of installation,
- ease of use and low pricing were as high as Artisoft President Jack Schoof
- had dared hope. But the real value is in the suggestions for improvements
- that both dealers and customers provided.
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- End user requests for Ethernet support of twisted pair cable led to the new
- Artisoft AE-3 Ethernet Adapter. Concerns about the wait for technical
- support led to more telephone lines and more trained people to take the
- calls.
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- Requests for better support for Microsoft Windows helped shape the new
- LANtastic NOS 4.0 and the LANtastic for Windows product. So if you have
- something to tell Artisoft, please be careful of what you say.
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- We're listening.
-