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By: Charlie Wood

Charlie Wood — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:00:50 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Dennis! Marc- I’ll schedule a call with you, but I wanted to make sure it got said publicly that even after Google introduced similar (but quite limited) features to ours, our business continues to grow at an unrelenting pace.

We’ve learned that even small independent companies like ours can beat the likes of Google by competing on quality, service, and, yes, price. How do you compete with free on price? Pay your customers. See http://spanningsync.com/s5m5

Regards,
Charlie

By: Marc Gingras

Marc Gingras — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:31:06 +0000

If you’re up to it, I would take you up on an intro to Charlie – you should have my email. If not, you can always schedule a meeting with me using my meetwithme link – http://www.tungle.com/meetwithme/marc (sorry for the plug).

Hope you enjoy Tunglin’ – don’t hesitate to send me any feedback you may have to improve our service.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:31:36 +0000

@Marc – thanks for commenting. Well, you might want to look up Charlie Wood and ask him about cost of acquisition. You might be surprised at what he has to say.

By: Marc Gingras

Marc Gingras — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:34:58 +0000

Hi Denis, thanks for the thoughtful and accurate review of Tungle. The Tungle team has been working hard to build a service that turns your calendar from being a simple time tracking system into a productivity and connected tool. This is why we focused our attention towards features that are missing in people’s calendars (eg the ability to directly add an event in Tungle). That said, I agree with you that this feature is something that should be added to our service.

You raised an important point about business model. I was glad to see that you deemed appropriate that we should charge right off the bat for the use of Tungle. This is an indication that we are on the right path – in providing a solution that will be addictive for busy professionals. That said, our business model is one of freemium – where the basic product is free, and premium services will be subscribed by a select few. This model can only work if we keep our cost of user acquisition low. If we do our job right, Tungle’s natural virality will keep our cost of user acquisition fairly low i.e. one user will expose Tungle to other users, which will in turn start using Tungle with others (note: if you use Tungle to coordinate a meeting with a non-Tungle users, we never force them to sign-up).

Our objective is to become the defacto calendar accelerator on all platforms while protecting us if one day one of the big guys decide to include our services in their offering for free (spanning sync being a good example of this happening).

I hope this helps explain the reasoning behind our business model. Paul, looking forward to talking with you shortly.

Marc – CEO & Founder of Tungle