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 ...
Nothing compares to sleeping in my own Sealy Posturpedic.
““We had a huge spike in web traffic around that time..”
In other words, professional agitators, community organizers and their useful idiots are leeches on society and will make a lot of noise without having much to spend in the economy.
You and a couple of liberals must have been the only ones listening.
Maybe you fell over it while surfing.
I’ve had my sleep number bed for over 10 years. For my back injury from the service, it has been a God send. Sorry you have had such trouble with yours.
Sp[eaking of that I went to Walmarts and bought a 32 GB memory stick the other day for $19.95 saw it today at Staples for almost $40. bucks.
What was Carbonite charging per year? Something like $60? Five bucks per month? For that you can get three of those sticks have one them with you, put the others in safe places.
A 1T desktop usb2/3 drive is $100. Comes with basic software for automatic user-defined backups.
Pro-Flowers is the lazy man's way of ordering flowers anyway. At one time, they might've been useful, but do what I do, and you can avoid the extra cost.
Pick any local flower shop in the city where you want to send flowers (just about any search tool will do--I use Bing); call that flower shop directly, and place an order for them to deliver.
Much easier than going through some 1-800 number, and no added fees or charges.
Someone should have told him pawns are expendable.
“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”?
You dont want your back-up in the same location as your PC incase of fire, flood ect.
I've never heard of ZipCar. Methinks they are not only advertising to the wrong demo, but are being ripped off by their agency or marketing department.
Any way, from what I remember of the Carbonite faux pas, their customer acquisition costs were through the roof even with the Limbaugh reach.
It's probably over for them as Carbonite. Between alienating Dittoheads and all the bad publicity about the quality of their service, I wouldn't be surprised to see them acquired by a real backup company for substantially less than what they paid for their constantly dwindling customer base.
What kind of businessman listens to Soros unless they’re up to no good? It isn’t rocket surgery to know that they’re lucky as heck that Soros didn’t buy tons of stock in their company then make it worthless after they got rid of advertising on Rush.
Nope. I have a 50 minute one way commute to my job. I either listen to the new testament on mp3 or NPR. The latter to find out what the other side is up to. Every now and then I come up with a gem like this.
—You and a couple of liberals must have been the only ones listening.—
It’s really fun, when arguing on liberal sites, when they accuse me of being a “foux bot” and I tell them I have not had TV since 1997 and the only radio I listen to is NPR.
The ad-hominem fails. It takes the wind out of their sails.
That was what I was saying. Keep one with you, put the others in different places outside your home. Maybe one in your car and another either at work or a friends house?? I’ve always thought that Carbonite was a joke.
PS - I also have a Passport external HD for my laptop and I backup to that as well. I do have several mem sticks too.
We'll never know viz Pro Flowers because they are owned by Liberty Media (Sirius, QVC, Starz, the Atlanta Braves, etc.); majority owned by the secretive billionaire John Malone, who ostensibly is/was a friend of Rush:
"John Malone, who's at the Aspen Institute, has now joined all of this. He's a cable television, Liberty Media, DirecTV, cable TV, is a mogul -- and he's a great guy, by the way.I have met Malone on a number of different occasions. "'The US has the highest corporate tax rate in the world,' the cable king said. Given the global nature of his business, he observed, 'We could move out of Colorado.' It wasn't clear whether he was suggesting a move might still be under consideration, whether he was thinking of moving out of the US or simply ranting against high taxes." A lot of people are talking about this. They've come to the conclusion. Mort Zuckerman we quoted. People are realizing it's not an accident. They're realizing this is not good intentions gone awry. They're starting to realize nobody would do this unless they meant to be doing this. This is not accidental. This is not naivete. This is not utopia-panacea meeting reality. This is anti-capitalism meeting reality, and the capitalists are starting to figure out that they are in the crosshairs even if they have donated considerable sums to Obama's effort." -- Rush
As for the on-site vs off-site backup debate, you could always purchase a Dropbox account and use unison to encrypt a volume and ship it to the cloud every so often. Of course, Dropbox was compromised recently. On the other hand, any backup is better than no backup, on-site or wherever.
Yes, carbonite is a joke. It is a good concept though. Kind of a pain to go out to your car (or where ever) to get your memory stick everytime you want to back something up.
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