Wow! Yesterday I asked our users to complete a short survey for our sponsor. THOUSANDS of you decided to help us out and complete the short survey. I was worried many of you would be annoyed at our request – ironically Svetlana wrote a post about my fear in a post titled, “Now How Evil is the Free Web?”
The survey has ended. Don’t you hate it when you enter a drawing and never find out who (if anyone) actually won? Well I do. I talked to our partner and asked them for the name of the winner, but they explained that the drawing is held each quarter across many surveys – i.e. you are more likely to win the lottery than the $250 prize we promised. So I decided that we would conduct our own drawing and award the $250 ourselves (we can afford it). I am pleased to announce that Shawn Miller from Bradenton, Florida will receive a check for $250 and a Big in Japan T-Shirt (Large as seen below). Congratulations Shawn and thank you for taking the time to help us help our sponsor.
Lots of folks ask how we are able to give ShopSavvy away for free. With thousands of applications sold for 99 cents or more many of you have suggested you might be willing to pay for ShopSavvy. To make a long story short, we had to agree to release ShopSavvy for free to obtain various agreements with our partners. This has helped us grow, but limited our upside.
We still need to eat so we found a sponsor willing to pay us for the right to include their name and logo throughout our application (a powered by [insert brand] type deal). I am not able to release the name of our new partner, but it is an important name in commerce and shopping. Our new partner has asked that we have our users fill out a short survey (FYI – you will find out the partner’s name in the survey) prior to the launch of our sponsorship effort – we sent out a notification to users asking them to “Help keep ShopSavvy free by filling out this short survey.” If you are a user you will get a short message in your notification tab – we predict many of you will be angry, but we ask that you either take a moment to fill out the survey (for a chance to win $250) or simply delete the notification. Please don’t send us an email suggesting how evil we are. Please don’t leave negative ratings in the market. Please realize that we need to make money so we can keep adding inventory and features to ShopSavvy. Thanks for your support and understanding.
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Wow! Yesterday I asked our users to complete a short survey for our sponsor. THOUSANDS of you decided to help us out and complete the short survey. I was worried many of you would be annoyed at our request – ironically Svetlana wrote a post about my fear in a post titled, “Now How Evil is the Free Web?”
Lots of folks ask how we are able to give ShopSavvy away for free. With thousands of applications sold for 99 cents or more many of you have suggested you might be willing to pay for ShopSavvy. To make a long story short, we had to agree to release ShopSavvy for free to obtain various agreements with our partners. This has helped us grow, but limited our upside.
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