Moneyville

The meeting went very well indeed; in fact, it went in a completely different direction than expected. I thought we were there to persuade the Very Large Financial Services Corporation to buy a copy of our product for their own use, and that may have been achieved (having dealt with the Purchasing issues, we now face IT issues).

VLFSC had something entirely different in mind: pleasing their customers, many of whom are faced with the problem (situation) that our database solves.

VLFSC wanted us to prove that our database was good enough for them to recommend to their customers.

We appear to have succeeded.

And now the punchline: while all this was happening, a Truly Huge Financial Services Corporation called up, and invited us to Lucre City to prove to them that our database is good enough for their customers.

Don't start writing begging letters just yet. None of this was in writing; nobody took notes, there will be no minutes circulated. And we would still have to bend over for negotiate with their Legal and IT departments.

However, I do admit to feeling pretty excited. The next few weeks may be very interesting.