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by tyre 1643 days ago
We did, yes.

The start was in political offices, which need CRMs and are motivated to move or they're fired. Constituent service satisfaction is one of the top indicators of being re-elected.

Moving into permanent government departments is more of a pain but we did see some success there.

Ultimately, though, the trough between early-adopters and getting mainstream is dishearteningly deep and there aren't enough ealry-adopters to build momentum. Not for us anyway.