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”.
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
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.
Someone should have told him pawns are expendable.
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.
David Friend now knows the fate of a ‘Useful Idiot’.
Bump
They had repeatedly emailed me with offers to re-up. I don’t know if it stopped ,I just identified Carbonite as spam and no more Carbonite..