I read this in Seth Godin’s blog today:
“Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards–and living up to them–is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort [...]
There’s been a bit of a quiet period at Freepository over the past
couple weeks while we’ve focused on business development.
As promised, we’ve analyzed the past three months worth of direct client connections (i.e. via Eclipse, TortoiseCVS, WinCVS, our secure command line client, etc.) and have confirmed the pattern that we believed was emerging.
We’ve been collecting statisitics on site usage for a long time, and see some really interesting patterns.
Freepository was included in a meta-profile of several compainies in the online storage space. This is a service we’ve provided for over six years, and is just now getting mainstream attention. We’re thrilled to hear Michael Arrington validate our own assessment that this is “…a biliion dollar market opportunity”.
@markdowds Very nice. Just you and your son? What an awesome way to spend the day. 2 hrs ago