Love Potion No. 1
It really has been an interesting last couple of days. I could probably write 10 more pages about what happened this week. But to stop from boring you I will make it short. For a brief moment in the history of the MacIntosh software universe, there was a time that a little app called Podcast Maker beat the giants like Netscape, Macromedia Flash, and Firefox in the download rankings at the Apple site. As proof, I am putting up the screenshot. Not to prove to you that this really happened, but to me because I’m not sure if I will believe my memory when the rankings change.
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September 18th, 2005 at 9:17 am
You guys will rock the world. Expect the unexpected in your mailbox very soon, I got somethin’ for you. A few spleepless nights more and we’ll amost not have to speak in the mike anymore. PM will Make the Podcast for us ;) ;) Shout out from a french speaking podcaster from Germany, Shout out to the tiny company in a garage somewhere in L.A. Is it me, or it remembers me another company ? :)
September 19th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
Big Congratulations. Sit back for a few seconds. Take photos of yourself doing so. Film it. Get tattoos. It is real.
Over 15 years ago I created a direct mail campaign using the Macintosh. Back then there were only a few programs to do the newfangled trend called, “desktop publishing.â€? I used what would become PageMaker, won their newsletter contest and thought that was the end of it. Nope. Somehow the president of Aldus mailed the campaign to Steve Jobs. Steve held it up at the Sebold Conv saying “when we invented Macintosh, we never dreamed it would create something like this…” I started getting phone calls. Life changed. So did my salary. So did my vision of possibility. That piece and another when on to win every advertising award in my region and even nationally…yadda, yadda, yadda…all this to say. Bask.
Bask in your moment. It is real. It will still be cool twenty years from now. Also make the most of it. Get the word out. Make your product better. Ride the wave. Its only when you stay out on the edge that you can keep the momentum. Innovate. Notice what you did to create your moment. Take every penny and pour it back into your product. Remember that a huge percent is luck. More is daring and work.
Greg
If you have some eMail Marketing tools, use them. If not, we provide such. Give us a ring (not the point of this email).
September 20th, 2005 at 9:22 pm
GLOAT. All the way to the bank. :)
September 20th, 2005 at 9:25 pm
Hahahaha, I wish. We’re not even making minimum wage! But that’s okay. We are having so much fun working. People shouldn’t have this much fun at work!
September 20th, 2005 at 11:41 pm
Hey, at least you’re making something, eh? And yes, having fun at work should be outlawed. Work is supposed to be dreary! It’s illegal to have so much fun at work!
Let’s admit it, I’m majorly jealous.
October 4th, 2005 at 11:49 am
Great work guys!