The Snowball Effect - Other People Steal Your Ideas
I thought about writing this article for some time but it feels like it should be written. People ask sometimes whether Jasmeow.Systems was the first to think of the "monthly services" of our cost per month, but we weren't. Many well known names obviously used to exist previously like Jamo, Void and Arik, and they are still around to this day, but they don't make it painstakingly obvious to many markets, leaving them not vulnerable to the market stealing others do.
JS came onto the scene in February 2023 and started going exponentially due to the fantastic business model of additional system administrators being able to help out, being around the clock support for your network or business. What's frustrating is that we were the "first" major business to do this on the BuiltByBit forum site and gained a fantastic amount of traction for its presentation.
What's sad to see now is that multiple other system administrators have decided to take liberty of doing one better by being cheaper but by no means better, jumping onto the band wagon of taking liberty of clients downfalls. Some examples include people charging $30 a month but have a previous track record of losing customer data, charging significantly less than us for a subpar service or just simply misleading clients.
Huge disclaimer: These are just screenshots of thread titles. They are not to be used to attack a individual or a team directly. We've personally not used any person from the threads and know their history, it was just two obtained which follow suit of this article. No shame is brought upon them, just something to highlight which shows that "NEW: Monthly.." was actually wasn't originally thought of unless I am mistaken, it just concerns me it was obvious enough.
As I stated previously, I can assure you that people have obviously been before us with well known names doing monthly services, but we came onto the market in Feburary when monthly was a new term not thought of by others. Due to the expanding reach of our business, others now are trying to take the method further with fancy threads and attractive prices. Do not by conned out of a bad experience. Speak to the people who know what's right, even if you don't hear it from me directly. We aren't going to complain if you have some questions, feel free to ask.
One thing to take into consideration is that everyone is trying to earn a living and gain their clientele, and it's ironic from me as on my threads I state the prices on the thread titles themselves, but this is the actual realistic cost, not behind the scenes hidden fees. I added these at the end of January I believe when I was sorting out my threads and the titles, but others soon cottoned on that was the way to gain attention from others so the market is so frustratingly saturated.
What's even more shocking is that some users have even gone as far as copying our entire infrastructure and copying/pasting our management solutions to better aid different clientele. It's utterly disgusting. Try other solutions and develop your own, don't become a copy cat.
I want to make this perfectly clear that this isn't an article to be egotistical or to boost my own revenue, it's just something as an advisory and what I have personally noticed over the past few months, personally becoming very self aware of my own costs and if I increase my costs in April, that makes me lose out on a ton of clients.