After I built Chartermatrix.com it took me several months to get the word out to the industry. Some people took right to it and others refused to even look at it. It was free and many people just do not trust anything free. It was real though and soon we had about 400 companies using the system. We even got a phone call from the competition and the own who will stay unnamed went on to ask me "Who gave you permission to get into my business?" lol Yup that was my welcome to the aviation software industry. He felt this was his industry and anyone who dares do buisness in it must ask his permission. So you can imagine how that relationship was right?
It was cool being part of a new site that could help people sell their empty leg and locate air charter companies. Companies will sell their empty legs and keep on posting. Others would sell their empty legs and then say they did not want to post the flights because it took to much time. Yup, it took all of about 2 or 3 minutes to post a couple of empty leg air charter flights. That was just to much time to make $10,000 though for some people. That was when I learned how lazy people were. The fact was that the dispatchers did not get paid based on how much they sold. Selling more flights meant more work for them and they did not want more work!
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