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Hi
I have a company based in the middle east. Jordan in exact. I tried to make something new, and yes we built a new technology. A new application builder that really will reduce the programming into 30 - 40 % comparing with the traditional programming.
The problem that we are in Jordan, a very poor country. Even we made a very good technology, but we now are out of cash.
So we think in selling the technology for other parties. So I am asking for advise how we can do that and who is the best choice for us to try to sell the technology for.
The technology is an application builder built using SQL 2008 & Silverlight. This link https://sites.google.com/site/hasanhalabi/oneclick-lightswitch is a comparison between it and the LightSwitch the application builder than Microsoft has built.
Looking for Advice from you.
Thanks in Advance.
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Hasan Al-Halabi
Chief Operation Officer "COO"
What's Next! for Business Solutions
Queen Rania Str. Building 313, 4th Floor, Office 409
P.O.Box: 143882
Amman 11814, Jordan
Mob: 962 7 97958819
Tel: 962 6 5334478
hasanhalabi@whats-nxt.com
http://www.whats-nxt.com
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Hasan Al-Halabi wrote:
So we think in selling the technology for other parties. So I am asking for advise how we can do that and who is the best choice for us to try to sell the technology for.
Ah, you solved a problem, and now you're looking for someone one with the same problem.
Three out of five companies that I worked for created an in-house solution to create applications "fast". They all failed on the most common ground; a user who needs something customized.
If you need to survive, then simply ask for problems and promise to solve them. If you're looking to prosper, solve them well.
Sounds like you're the one expert in your field in that specific location. So, brag about it. Might not come naturally being a developer, but that's the field of marketing and I'm sure they could help out 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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Thanks Eddy
We barged about it for the last year. and yet nothing. The culture in my country looking for the things come from US and Europe. Even if the things made here is better, they will keep tell us it is a local software, we don't believe on it! Just because we are a local company no one is looking to take the product from us!
About the things the others failed to accomplished. I think we pass it, because we did not built the product for our own then we tried to sell it for others. From the first step we though of it and design it to be used by any developer. I don't say it is the end for the developers pain in programming, but it is one thing which can open a new path of programming.
Thanks
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Hasan Al-Halabi
Chief Operation Officer "COO"
What's Next! for Business Solutions
Queen Rania Str. Building 313, 4th Floor, Office 409
P.O.Box: 143882
Amman 11814, Jordan
Mob: 962 7 97958819
Tel: 962 6 5334478
hasanhalabi@whats-nxt.com
http://www.whats-nxt.com
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Hasan Al-Halabi wrote: The culture in my country looking for the things come from US and Europe.
I know what you mean; there was an experiment that showed how ants would "efficiently" solve a problem. They didn't know they were supposed to behave this way, and acted natural - not only did they create a longer route to the food-source when challenged, the old and long route would still be used even after the ants discovered a shorter one. Humans act in the same way.
Hasan Al-Halabi wrote: Just because we are a local company no one is looking to take the product from us!
You have several options;
- prove that your products adds value by automating non-profit organizations for free. That doesn't only generate goodwill, it also gets your name around.
- get a free lightweight version out there, and get a user-base - if they get hooked on your product, they'll become religious fanatics that spread your product.
- get a face in the US; hire some kid, send him/her to the States, have them market a version of your product. Get a second student adventurer, and send him/her to Europe, Russia or China.
- don't stop developing. Escalate it; create a plugin mechanism and document the API, get people to write plugins.
- a lot of users have their data in the cloud; ask around how many people use GMail. Provide alternatives.
- keep presenting yourself as the local expert. Give free lectures at local schools, and remind people that you are indeed the leading local authority. Make sure they don't forget.
Hasan Al-Halabi wrote: I don't say it is the end for the developers pain in programming, but it is one thing which can open a new path of programming.
That would certainly raise a lot of questions with the visitors of this site.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If your software is really good then you don't have worry about selling it. You need to focus on marketing.
“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.”
― Steuart Henderson Britt, Marketing Management and Administrative Action
The product should be showcased and if it's worth then people will contact you. All you have to prove is how your product is value added to the business and provides a definite ROI.
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