Many organizations list customer testimonials and quotes on their websites or literature. It makes sense to show off those places where you’ve done well in hopes of influencing others to do business with you. We seek this out, and while we get a lot at Redgate, they take effort to put together.
I was surprised to find some of these in the Book of Redgate. After all, this was an internal publication for the employees. We don’t need customer referrals.
And yet, seeing these quotes brings me some pride. I’d hope most employees felt that way, but here are a few samples:
“I raised an issue with Redgate regarding functionality in their SQL Compare product … and a couple of months later the items identified had been rewritten”
“Whenever I show people any Redgate software, it’s like they just escaped from communist Russia and have a new life to live.”
“SQL Data Generator has overnight become the principal tool we use for loading test data to run our performance and load tests”
That last one is from Grant, before he joined us as an employee.
There are many more, and I recently saw a large spreadsheet of quotes from customers that we can use externally. It’s amazing how many people love our tools and have benefitted from them.
It’s nice to work in a successful and profitable business, but it’s really motivating when so many of our customers appreciate what we do.
I have a copy of the Book of Redgate from 2010. This was a book we produced internally about the company after 10 years in existence. At that time, I’d been there for about 3 years, and it was interesting to learn a some things about the company. This series of posts looks back at the Book of Redgate 15 years later.
