If I've understood it correctly you get to own the perpetual license if you own it now and sign up to the $200/year program. $200 a year isn't THAT bad if you're making money off the software - Pro Tools is completely indispensable to me. So I will be upgrading any day now.
i like the old way. buy something and own it.
I REALLY want to bitch about this too, but I just started using a CRM for my studio (which I'm happily paying $55/month for). This CRM might pay for itself this year, but I sure as fuck know Pro Tools will.
I just upgrade to PT 10/11 this month, so we'll see how long I hold out on PT 12 for. I just don't see myself having the free time or patience to make a DAW switch any time soon.
It really does suck to fucking suck.
I REALLY want to bitch about this too, but I just started using a CRM for my studio (which I'm happily paying $55/month for). This CRM might pay for itself this year, but I sure as fuck know Pro Tools will.
I just upgrade to PT 10/11 this month, so we'll see how long I hold out on PT 12 for. I just don't see myself having the free time or patience to make a DAW switch any time soon.
It really does suck to fucking suck.
Pardon my ignorance but what is CRM ? It is a strong acronym in my daily job and it bugs me I can't stop reading it this way
OT: I'd be curious to hear more about the CRM stuff.
It stands for "Customer relationship management", and it's software you use to track all of the "deals" in your sales pipeline. I'll explain more in my reply Jordon below.
So for those who don't know, it's basically software that I use to track every single quote that is send to me from the quote request form on my website.
This software keeps track of how much $ worth of quotes I send out every month/quarter/year, as well as how many of those I "close" on or how many fall through.
It's an experiment I'm doing for my studio and blog this year to track a few things.
I'm very interested in the conversion numbers between quote requests that I get, and bands that actually end up working with me. I'll end up writing an entire article about this, but so far this has made me realize how fucking easy it is to let a $5,000-$10,000 project slip through your fingers just because you failed to follow up properly.
I'm not trying to derail this thread, so feel free to PM me if you want to talk about this more.
Oh I see. I did not know it was named like that.
I have been demoing Billings Pro and it can do some basic tracking like this. Are you using something more advanced than can do both invoices and advanced tracking of them ? I would be highly interested !
It stands for "Customer relationship management", and it's software you use to track all of the "deals" in your sales pipeline. I'll explain more in my reply Jordon below.
So for those who don't know, it's basically software that I use to track every single quote that is send to me from the quote request form on my website.
This software keeps track of how much $ worth of quotes I send out every month/quarter/year, as well as how many of those I "close" on or how many fall through.
It's an experiment I'm doing for my studio and blog this year to track a few things.
I'm very interested in the conversion numbers between quote requests that I get, and bands that actually end up working with me. I'll end up writing an entire article about this, but so far this has made me realize how fucking easy it is to let a $5,000-$10,000 project slip through your fingers just because you failed to follow up properly.
I'm not trying to derail this thread, so feel free to PM me if you want to talk about this more.
Steinberg is still doing it the good old way so far. I hope they won't take that route.
At least with slate you get something to show for the subscription, pro tools just bends you over without lube.