We know our users love us, but will they vote for us?

We know our users love us, but will they vote for us? That is the question.

We get plenty of fan mail from users whose data we saved — we restore over 10 million files every month. That's a lot of saved bacon. But do they love us enough to give us their vote?

Every year, CNET runs the prestigious Webware 100 contest — really an industry popularity contest where users get to vote for their favorite applications. Over 5,000 companies got nominated by readers of CNET's Webware site. In the end there were only 300 finalists. And after 630,000 votes, only 100 winners. Carbonite was one of them. So thanks to all of you CNET readers out there who voted for Carbonite. You didn't let us down, and we will never let you down!

 

Dave
CEO, Carbonite

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June 5. 2009 15:12

sergei

Dave -
Maybe some of your customers love you. I didn't like your software, I had a miserable restore experience, after which I found a much better service. But that's fine - no complaints here: I tried, I didn't like it, I switched. However, it's been more than a week that I've been trying to cancel my account with you. Your customer service is annoying beyond any description: your staff wasted my time during a chat session, I provided all the personal info they requested - but you still won't remove my account and data. Quite honestly, I am fed up and I'm at the point of contacting my District Attorney because I am concerned about the safety of all my data which still resides on your servers. So, please, once again, cancel my account and delete all my data. If this does not happen within a week, I will contact the authorities.

sergei

June 10. 2009 10:22

David Friend

Sergei: I'll double check to make sure your account is properly closed and data deleted. I sent you an email asking you to tell me about your restore experience and what exactly didn't work. We are always benchmarking our restore process against our competitors, so we're very interested in learning where we can make improvements. I will say that it gets tough when people back up on XP and then restore to Vista or Mac, and people also frequently don't realize that restoring a file doesn't necessarily mean that your applications automatically find the restored files, as is the case with Outlook, Quicken, and other apps.

Dave

David Friend

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