Here are 10 signs to tell if your company is in trouble:
- Your development team outnumbers your sales team.
- Your support department is busy, yet you don’t charge for support.
- You have no marketing department.
- Your computer hardware is falling behind.
- You continuously update and add new features to a product that you can’t sell to begin with.
- You continuously add new features to a product, but your sales department has no clue about the new features.
- You have no defined niche or target market, you simply shoot at anything that moves.
- You have no partnerships or relationships with anyone in your market.
- You have no clearly defined objective.
- Your company skips its Christmas party.
January 21st, 2008 at 10:23 am
#5 is a classic. Adding features to something that isn’t selling probably just means that there is no demand in the first place. In which case no amount of features will sell the product.
January 21st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Exactly, unfortunately I experienced all of these at my last job - and then half the company got laid off…
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 am
OK, now I am in a panic…all of these are true at the moment. Argh!!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Sorry Shane, get that resume up to date - but maybe your company can pull out of it…
January 24th, 2008 at 1:37 am
11) You make no profit
February 1st, 2008 at 8:00 am
12. You’ve finished reading this list and you’re thinking “omigod, omigod, omigod”