We’ve recently released a new version of Inquisix. Members won’t notice much change but new visitors to our site will. Until now, Inquisix has been an invite-only controlled beta because we wanted to correctly capture the process of giving and getting referrals confidentially online. It’s harder than you think! What’s natural in the real world often doesn’t translate well in the virtual world, where all the edge cases have to be considered and implemented. Kudos to our development team, run by Dave Dupre, for making the complex seem easy. And to our current members who’ve provided feedback on making the process better.

Now that we think we’ve got it, we’re opening Inquisix up to anyone who wants to join. We’ll still be in beta for a bit longer as membership continues to grow and we tweak here and there. There will always be a free version of Inquisix while we offer some premium features, too. More on that later.

So if you’re new to Inquisix and want to join, come on in. We’re using a common solution for ensuring only people try to join – Captcha. What’s really interesting about the implementation Dave and his team chose was what the reCaptcha system is doing while you decipher those images into text. As quoted from our Marketing VP’s other blog, “ReCaptcha is helping digitize newspapers, books and old-time radio shows, by putting this wasted time to actual good use. Every reCaptcha solved adds to the world’s library of digital books.”

Come on in!

Yesterday afternoon, we formally launched Inquisix private Beta. Many of you already received your invitations and are now members. It’s been a long time coming, but it is exciting to see so many people sign up so fast. The more members and contacts in the system, the better it is for everyone, so keep those invitation requests and contact uploads coming.

We have a lot of features and enhancements in the pipeline, but we can’t do this without you. Everything we do will be based on customer feedback, so please let us know what you think. Very soon, we will have Customer Forums up and running- you can have a real impact on making your product better suited to your needs!

If you are not a member, and you would like to participate in the Beta program, request an invitation. At this stage, we will not be open to everyone because the salespeople that join the beta not only need to share but also must have something in common – in this case an overlapping rolodex. If you sell into companies, industries or titles that no one in Inquisix does, then there won’t be anyone to trade with. So as we get a critical mass of salespeople that sell into the same industry or job title, then we will invite them all to join at once. You can help this process by inviting your sales buddies to join Inquisix too.

Happy Selling!