Comments on: Seth Godin's New Standard: Does your product lower stress?

By: Mat

Mat — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:47:59 +0000

Mmmm. Products that save time and reduce stress?

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By: Josh Purinton

Josh Purinton — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:08:48 +0000

Products I’ve bought that reduce stress: TiVo, Garmin Nuvi 350 (GPS Navigator), & Diesel jeans

By: wimkhan

wimkhan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:10:07 +0000

Yes I have. Check ScholarsCamp at http://scholarscamp.com. this is the first scholarships social bookmarking. Imagine digg or delicious that do specific things on scholarships only. But probably that’s not the power of a product just like you tell me about up there.

The power lies within our feature called BlackHole. with this feature, our system will collect and show you all scholarships informations that suit with your data. So if you are a computer science student, your BlackHole will contain scholarships on this major too. How about other majors. Don’t worry, we provide a lot there.

Fortunately, ScholarsCamp doesn’t stop there since The BlackHole 2u will send you an email that list all the scholarships information that fit on you.

So, Carleen, I (hei, i’m the co-founder and CEO) invite you to join our site. Because this is a stress reducer. especially for scholarships hunters out there.

And how much people pay for this service? No you will not need to pay anything here. it is absolutely free.

Now I just have a fresh idea at this moment. ScholarsCamp; The stress reducer for scholarships hunters.

Wow! Nice post for founder Carleen.

By: Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:53:09 +0000

I’m on the board of Wesabe, a collective intelligence based personal finance application. The founders are laser-focused on this idea, that the application should be something that helps people to reduce their stress about finances. It also ties to Kathy Sierra’s idea that what make products tick when they give people “I rule” moments. (She actually looks at the text of her reviews on Amazon to see whether or not people talk more about themselves and their own success than they do about the book or its author.)

In short, I think you’re onto something here, Seth.

By: Jason Cianchette

Jason Cianchette — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:16:59 +0000

I agree if you are making products for busy professionals. Some segments of the marketplace like teenagers and under employed service workers are more interested in products that kill time not save it. See the popularity of myspace or reality TV.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:57:09 +0000

The problem is that customers are often too stressed and pressed for time to even evaluate a possible solution to their problem. Our service team automation product (www.bluefolder.com) is a web app for managing field service businesses. Usually we’re talking to the business owner and he/she is not only stressed about their own time but the time of his/her entire service team. We’re always looking for more ways to solve the business owners stress related to the core questions they have about how their business is doing.

Trying to articulate the potential time savings in a tangible way that customers understand and, more importantly, believe can be challenging. If you can do it, chances are you’ll have a new customer as a result.

By: Brent Logan

Brent Logan — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:55:45 +0000

I like it! Reminds me of the selling feature of the the book, Getting Things Done. Or the vacation I just canceled…

By: JohnofScribbleSheet

JohnofScribbleSheet — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:51:01 +0000

I think its better to think in terms of pain relief than stress relief. But then in the west, how many pains do we really have?

By: buckpost

buckpost — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:41:12 +0000

There’s certainly a lot of food for thought in this post. My company, PlanetEye, is an online travel guide that will launch in beta fairly soon. The question we’re trying to address from a marketing and feature perspective is what problems we’re trying to solve…or, as you, suggest, how can we make things less stressful for the traveler.

Mark