Unofficial Spiceworks

Justin recently posted a great article on his blog about the future of Spiceworks.

I just read Andrew Phelps’ article on the Spiceworks Script Center (Beta) and a light bulb turned on.  I have made many predictions about Spiceworks in the past and some of them became a reality.

Here is my new set of predictions of where Spiceworks is headed and if some of them come true I really think it will change the way the IT vendors conduct business with new and exsisting customers.

Ever since the Points System launched this year SpiceHeads have really been more active in the community. Don’t believe me? According to compete in the past year community.spiceworks.com has seen a 109.65% increase!

BTW that is all organic traffic, because the only domain they advertise (PPC) is www.Spiceworks.com which leads you to a well crafted Landing Page.

In his post Justin talks about the future of Spiceworks in 3 ways:

1. Virtual Currency – What if Spiceworks gave you money for posting and getting best answers, what could you do with them and how it would increase the use of the community.
2. The iTunes of IT – At Spiceworld Las Vegas, Greg Kattawar (VP of Dev & Co-Founder) was speaking and kept referring to Spiceworks as “The iTunes of IT”, Spiceworks plan to be everything IT, they want to keep you using there product(s) as much as possible so you see their adverts and they can gain more money from companies like Microsoft and CDW (they really need to find someone like CDW for the UK)
3. Exit Strategy – What happens if it all goes Pete Tong? Justin thinks there are three options they could look at if they needed to… Read his post to find out what they are. For the record I hope for #3

Check out his full post here

Edited: 23/09/09 16:46 (GMT)