Our recent post on the demise of Vancouver's Marqui was quickly picked up on by leading industry watchdog site CMS Watch. Not surprisely, they pondered the question "What happens to my content if my SaaS provider goes out of business?" and that got a lot of folks thinking. Portland-based marketing guru Janet Lee Johnson kept the conversation going and was lucky enough to get contacted by Marqui's VP of Client Services and now feels like she needs to right a wrong.
….There has been some erroneous information spreading on exactly what is happening at Marqui and this communication is meant to give you information to make appropriate business decisions. I am happy to report that Marqui is very much running “business as usual”. We have Support, Services and Engineering staff available to service all our customer needs. We are very much here to continue to serve you. Please go to our support portal (http://support.marqui.com) for news on updates, and new training videos. If you haven’t signed up, please do so and you’ll have access to all our great new resources. We have heard that some of you are being contacted by partners and ex-employees offering support and services. Some of the communication appears to be misleading and encourages you to believe that Marqui will be “disappearing” or there is a risk your website will suddenly cease to exist. Marqui is currently in a state of “Managed Receivership” and there are currently several parties interested in purchasing the assets and operations of the company with the full intention to continue the business and honour customer commitments. ….
I'd be happy to retract our initial blog post if their Account Payables peeps would pay our outstanding advertising invoice.
Hi Rob,
I hear you - when I left Marqui a couple of years ago, they owed me money for some work I did for them at the very end. I actually considered legal action to get it, but decided to wash my hands of the situation and let it all just go.
Now, two and a half years later, I've inadvertently walked right into another Marqui flap (my first post was really quite innocent) and am now getting email and calls from people around the country, wondering what to do.
I hope you get paid. I hope they get bought. I know the bad guys responsible for this, and will always believe their karma is coming right at 'em, right about now.
[...] we broke the Marqui Receivership story in June, Marqui clients have been wondering what’s going to happen to their content if a buyer doesnt pick up the SaaS company’s assets. As of today it looks like there might be [...]
Hey Janet,
Thanks for your note - I'll have to see if Gravity Factor is interested in advertsing. ;-)
www.techvibes.com/blog/gravity-factor-takes-on-marqui
Rob.
To post a negative story on Marqui and then offer to retract it if they paid you outside of the receivership process takes a lot of courage.
Good luck to ya.
Good luck to ya.
That you posting Rick Patri? Sounds like the way you would format a posting....
recently saw a few job postings on their site and have an interview on friday.. would love to hear more on this company.. anyone?
