Big Deal for Bigfoot
It's time for some brogging (Brad Feld's word for bragging on your blog).
Flatiron's portfolio company Bigfoot Interactive announced yesterday that had just signed a big deal with Amazon.com to power the email for Amazon Services.
The fact is that email has the highest ROI for customer retention marketing efforts and Amazon knows that.
By partnering with Bigfoot Interactive, Amazon gets a best of breed email solution for their enterprise customers.
It's a big deal for Bigfoot Interactive and makes me proud of them.
I love moments like this. Building companies isn't easy and you have to believe in the management and support them. Events like this are the rewards for all of that.
wow, bigfoot still exists? i remember vaguely having a readable bigfoot address redirecting to my universtity address (consisting of a dozen digits and some letters) centuries ago..
Posted by: helge | June 29, 2005 at 09:48 AM
wow - kudos Fred and Bigfoot - on the build vs buy continuim, amzn is far to te left - any 3rd party solution sold in there is a major coup.
Posted by: David G | June 30, 2005 at 11:58 AM
Fred:
As a customer I find the bigfoot experience to be terrible. I've had a bigfoot account since the first half of the 90s but now I'm really fed up.
First they promised that the redirect would be free for life. Remember the slogan - "Bigfoot for life"? Next thing you know & they start charging for it. Can you say "Bait & switch"?
OK - I figure they need to make some money - so I sign up. Soon after that you realize that none of your important messages get through anyway. This is because they work on a quota system and most of your daily quota is used up by spam. They make more money if I get more spam. So I wonder if they double-dip and sell my bigfoot address (to spammers) and make more money? My bigfoot account has waaay more spam that any other account.
Me getting more spam helping them doubly is simply unacceptable so I'm dropping out!
sjk
Posted by: sjk | July 02, 2005 at 01:26 AM