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A VC: Out of Office Auto Replies

  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    I haven't seen my Feedblitz be all that successful, and have considered even turning it off, to point people to RSS online. Sounds like you still like the service. What's the % of your subscribers who use Feedblitz of the total? Is it going up, or stagnant?
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    It depends on how many subs I really have. FeedBurner says 80k. But so many
    of those are not active, that its a totally useless number. I'd guess I have
    more like 20k to 30k subs. And I have about 2k Feedblitz subs. So it's
    something like 10% of my subs. But it's a very active 10% because it's
    delivered to the inbox.

    Fred
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    Thanks for your comments, Fred. I'd removed the Feedblitz link from my blog, but it's up again, and we'll see if people are out there who prefer e-mail to online feed readers. I also traded e-mails with the company's founder and CEO, Phil Hollows. We'll watch this closely.
  • ceonyc · 1 year ago
    Who's ever really out of the office anyway? As if GOOG could e-mail you on Christmas Day wanting to buy your company and you'd say, "Oh, sorry, I'm out of the office until Jan 2., could I get back to you then?"

    I don't want to do business with anyone who is ever "Out of the Office."
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    That's a funny thought charlie!
  • ceonyc · 1 year ago
    Look at you...you couldn't be geographically further from the office and you're still responding.
  • James · 1 year ago
    OOO Replys are one of the more ridiculous communiques of modern business. In today's 24-hr mobile business world aren't we always working when out of the office? Even though people turn these on, they still respond to email. So what exactly does being OOO mean?
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    It means I am not going to respond to stuff unless its important and even
    then I might not respond as quickly as normal

    At least that's what it would mean if I turned mine on

    Fred
  • jer979 · 1 year ago
    You could take a page out of Andy Sernovitz's OOF playbook. That's what I do now...Godin might call it "remarkable"

    http://jer979.blogspot.com/2006/12/daring-to-be...