Thanks lads, yes definitely think that we'll try and ride the article for as much as we can. I love the idea of countering it with another Goodfellas scene.
We found out that Mashable want to do a video feature on us, so all is going in the right direction. Plus we were the #2 news story on France's biggest tech news website today. @Tom - there's another one on Hacker news too...based around the TechCrunch article On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Tom Allen <t...@jugglethis.net> wrote: > Totally agree with Ryan - see if you can get a follow-up article going > with TC or another press outfit on the back of this one. Even though this > article was out of left field, the "concept" of telling mmMule success > stories in the form of satire/anecdotes is a pretty good one. I'd consider > writing some customer testimonials in this form as a series of blog posts; > some sentimental, some funny, some about finding love, etc. > > BTW, the full Hacker News link is > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3870380 > > Cheers, > Tom > > > On 26 April 2012 11:29, Ryan Wardell <r...@projectpowerup.com> wrote: > >> I actually think you handled this pretty well Avis. Couple of things >> >> 1 - You're ALWAYS going to come up against this type of thing, that's >> just the nature of your business. People will want to know how you prevent >> drugs & other illegal items being smuggled - make sure you've got kickass >> comeback prepared. >> >> 2 - I think the average TechCrunch reader is bright enough to understand >> this article is tongue-in-cheek >> >> 3 - I'd recommend you get in touch with the guy who wrote it with a >> follow-up article. Something equally tongue-in-cheek, another parody of >> Goodfellas. Maybe the scene where they're cooking in prison? Say they need >> some special ingredient from Sicily and they get it delivered via mmMule, >> offering a "prison tour" in exchange. Maybe say they asked for a >> gun/file/lockpicks/cell key to be delivered, but mmMule's wouldn't let >> them. If you do it right, it keeps the same tone and is funny as hell, >> it'll get published. And you'll get twice as much publicity AND the >> opportunity to put the record straight. >> >> -- >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ryan Wardell >> >> CEO & Founder - Cofounder Speed Date >> >> (W) cofounderspeeddate.com.au >> >> (E) r...@projectpowerup.com >> >> (M) 0424 591 796 >> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/cofounderspeeddate> [image: >> Twitter] <https://twitter.com/#%21/csdau> [image: >> LinkedIn]<http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanwardell> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Patrick Collins <pcolli...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Any press is good press, so well done. But who cares what TechCrunch >>> think these days anyway, a rapidly dying blog. >>> >>> >>> From: Avis M <avismulh...@gmail.com> >>> Reply-To: <silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com> >>> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:56:54 -0700 (PDT) >>> To: <silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com> >>> Subject: [SiliconBeach] Our first article on TechCrunch - how would you >>> have responded?! >>> >>> Hey folks >>> >>> So, we were featured on TechCrunch last Friday - however, it wasn't >>> exactly the sort of coverage we were hoping for.... >>> >>> Here's a link to the story & a blog post featuring our response >>> http://blog.mmmule.com/our-first-article-on-techcrunchand-our-respon >>> >>> It's all good through as it brought us awesome traffic a heap of new >>> members as well as knock on press elsewhere. >>> >>> We're also on Hacker News, so if you're on there would be great if you >>> could give it a boost http://news.ycombinator.com/news >>> >>> Just curious as to how you guys would have dealt with it? >>> >>> Cheers >>> Avis >>> >>> Co-founder >>> www.mmMule.com >>> @avismulhall >>> @mmMule_com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon >>> Beach Australia mailing list. 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