There was a lot of interest in this, so okay. Let's try you out, @alibaba_cloud!
Your website says you're for "Connecting my multiple offices and branches between North America and Greater China Region" so I'm probably not the target market here, but let's give it a shot!
Your website says you're for "Connecting my multiple offices and branches between North America and Greater China Region" so I'm probably not the target market here, but let's give it a shot!
@alibaba_cloud Also: you named your VM service "ECS," or "Elastic Compute Service." Brilliant plan; I'm sure that causes no customer confusion whatsoever and got some marketing manager a favorable review.
@alibaba_cloud "Security: we've heard of it."
@alibaba_cloud On a scale of @IBMcloud to 10, I give your password policy a 6. A 20 character cap on something that runs my business isn't great.
@alibaba_cloud @IBMcloud The Chinese characters in the email preview do lend themselves to the impression that if I'm not serving the Chinese market, I'm in the wrong cloud.
@alibaba_cloud @IBMcloud Am I Personal or Enterprise? Uh... neither. My company however has insurance in case I knock your cloud over by signing up for it, so I'll pick Enterprise.
@alibaba_cloud @IBMcloud Pro Marketing Tip: If I'm an "Enterprise" you should never call me for this purpose, ever. You should call me to ensure my trial goes well, to report issues, to basically forge a working relationship AND THEN SELL ME SOMETHING after that's done!
@alibaba_cloud @IBMcloud Supporting @paypal as an enterprise payment method beats out Bitcoin, but not by a lot.
@alibaba_cloud @IBMcloud @PayPal And bam, I'm confirmed and signed up. It's fascinating what companies try to highlight. Here they're eager to demonstrate their @intel partnership. Someone's getting paid way too much to highlight something that most customers don't give a toss about.
@alibaba_cloud @IBMcloud @PayPal @intel This is fascinating. Weak system for 12 months, better system for 3 months. Offers a fixed bandwidth offering that's slow but not going to surprise me with bill overages.
I like this approach a lot. Good work, @alibaba_cloud.
I like this approach a lot. Good work, @alibaba_cloud.
@alibaba_cloud @IBMcloud @PayPal @intel Fascinating free offerings, but someone missed the opportunity to call your "Content Moderation" offering "CockBlockr." Softbank would have hurled a couple of billion at you for that alone.
@alibaba_cloud @IBMcloud @PayPal @intel Well this thread may have just slammed to a halt.
"You just signed up, added a payment method, confirmed your phone and email address, now screw off" isn't exactly a great look, @alibaba_cloud.
"You just signed up, added a payment method, confirmed your phone and email address, now screw off" isn't exactly a great look, @alibaba_cloud.
@alibaba_cloud @IBMcloud @PayPal @intel Okay, scratch that. There's a not-visually-distinctive tab above that you defaulted to "Individual" when I signed up for "Enterprise."
...and I'm told I'm logged out. Clicking the login link redirects me back to your sales page. This isn't a good experience at all. Trying with another browser.
Okay, this works slightly better in Safari, which is suspicious in its own right.
The Enterprise trial tells me:
The Enterprise trial tells me:
What are you afraid of here, that people will secretly try your cloud and like it or something?
Yeah, I'm not doing this. I don't care how awesome the @alibaba_cloud product is, I'm not uploading a pile of documentation just to kick the tires. Good work; you've somehow built something worse than @ibmcloud.
