Posted on 08/06/2012 7:31:35 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Last week’s Chick-fil-A appreciation day must have been painful to watch for David Friend the CEO that runs Carbonite a computer file backup service that was once the king of its industry.
Watching how well a business that is favored by the Right can do must have ground salt into the self- inflicted wound that is still plaguing Carbonite today.
On Saturday March 3, David Friend, the breast beating fool who is the CEO of Carbonite, decided he could not even wait until the following Monday to drop his company’s advertising relationship with Rush Limbaugh.
Bleating about Limbaugh having correctly characterized a young woman who wanted a Catholic university to pay for her contraception devices, Friend cited a desire for a “more civilized public discourse” as the reason for his action.
The truth was that Carbonite and a few other foolish advertisers were convinced to drop Limbaugh by Media Matters a George Soros operation dedicated to destroying conservative talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular.
Carbonite was played just as the rest of them were played. Now that a full calendar quarter has past, the extent to which Carbonite was played can be more accurately assessed.
While Chick-fil-A was gaining record breaking sales merely because its CEO Dan Cathy has stood for one man to one woman marriage, Carbonite was suffering a substantial decrease in sales.
What is worse is that in its type of business customers make a decision that stands for a year or more. Nothing will bring back the business Carbonite has lost.
“has sent these two traveling in opposite directions. Limbaugh’s numbers are higher than ever and the per share price of Carbonite stock has fallen 15%....
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
I am always surprised by the extremely short-term thinking of so-called business “leaders.”
Sandra Fluke was a political prop, who was prostituted for some cheap headlines, and with the media life-span of a fruit-fly.
Yet these business wizards decide THAT is the important issue on which they will take a stand and bet their company’s fate.
Idiots.
I was looking into Carbonite and seriously considering adopting it when they dropped Rush.
There is no way anyone in my family will ever buy their product now or in the future.
Hope he enjoys his “more civilized dialogue”.
Their product is a joke; I was sad that Rush permitted them to advertise.
The other crappy product is Sleep Number; mine collapsed on one side about a year after ownership. They refused to come out and see about it and their “fixes” never worked. Very expensive piece of crap.
Carbonite this past quarter took a surprise hit in customer acquisition as it ended a relationship with conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, after Limbaugh made some colorful comments.
“It turned out to be a bigger issue than we had anticipated, because at the time there was a lot of noise,” said CEO David Friend. “We had a huge spike in web traffic around that time, and just because of all of the interest in the whole subject.”
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2012/08/zipcar-car-sharing.html
I wonder how Pro Flowers and the others made out hmmm?
Maybe we should send them a card and ask how are things going for them now that they are Rushless?
What the left should really be scared of is if we decided for one day to go protest the MSM all over the country, demanding they fire all of their leftwing commentators or we will not buy any of their sponsors products ever again.
We need to out Alinsky Alinsky. The left’s biggest fear is ridicule. She should be out in full force.
I was listening to NPR a few days ago and they said “Brought to you by Carbonite” and I thought, “Oh how far the mighty have fallen.”
:-D
You can't put a price on the approval of the "glitterati."
;-D
Carbonite?
Never heard of them. Wasn’t that the name of a coal mining operation in the last century?
</sarc
I thoroughly enjoyed calling Carbonite to cancel my account. I was 7 months into the 3rd year with them. Most of the moonbats who complained about Rush never were Carbonite customers and never would have been. I signed on originally because I heard their ad on Rush’s program.
Was Select Comfort another that dropped Rush?
Anyone have a list of other companies that boycotted Rush?
Mine has gone missing!!
I want to make sure I or anyone else in my family never does business with ANY of these businesses again!!
Keep up the pressure, hit ‘em in the pocketbook. The ONLY thing these advertisers understand is $$$.
What is worse is that in its type of business customers make a decision that stands for a year or more.
I also wonder how many of their current subscribers will not be renewing once their current subscription is up?
I think that will/ could be the final nail in carbonites coffin.
Now that’s a 15% drop over one quarter. I imagine there are some people who bought a year of service before they dropped Rush. They aren’t going to cancel something they already paid for, but over time, they won’t renew, either.
15% ... 30% ... 45% ... 60% sales lost.
What do a few 8g mem sticks cost? You can’t back up your own important stuff to a mem stick and a few other devices?
Civilized dialogue seems to basically mean the left can say / do whatever, and conservatives are expected to be sit back and exercise restraint against evil run amok. In essence, we are to be well-behaved and non-opinionated. Otherwise the name-calling begins along with a lot of shame-on-yous.
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/02/436852/rush-limbaugh-advertisers/
There is a pretty good list on this site. However I’m not sure if the site’s owner’s intended us to use the post as a conservative boycott list. ;)
Sleep Train was one that regretted leaving. They asked to come back and Rush said no.
It wasn’t a national ad I don’t think. Rush recorded a local commercial for them.
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