ChrisC42780 wrote:
Slowman wrote:
okay. hey. all of you. you're flooding my inbox just now. please don't do that. i'm checking on those who've emailed me previously, and who hadn't gotten any confirming email back from zwift, to see the status. these foot pods are IN THE MAIL. some have gotten them already. give this a few days.
I received an email from you about the free pod on 11/26 but never received an email from zwift. Should I email you?
I am in NY, guessing these are coming frown the west coast, so taking a little longer.
Did workout Wednesday with my Tickr X and it dropped so many times I was close to quitting, so looking forward to the pod for a better connection!
let's rewind this. this isn't for you. just, for all of you who are in your situation or something similar. i sent out an email. and i said, "zwift has foot pods to give away to the first 1000 who..." and then i gave out the call to action and waited. here's a little inside baseball: this was on a friday, and zwift said, "we'll check back monday or tuesday and see how it's going." and i said, "well, i think i'll stick closer to my computer." because i know you guys! in this narrow instance my instincts were right: the 1000 foot pods were gone in 45 minutes. those 1000 foot pods were gone even before all of you got the email.
more than 500 of you have your foot pods already. they're winging their way across the country, and the world. this was a worldwide thing. now...
i've talked to zwift and i think we'll be able to give some more away (more on this below). but, there are 3 or 4 things i'd say, in general, and this is not just specific to zwift and foot pods.
1. we're going to do more discounts, flash sales, giveaways. but if we do a flash sale, and you found out about it after the closing of the flash sale, if you don't abuse amazon when you miss their flash sale please don't abuse me. and you - chris - aren't. this is just an email to the whole group. i've got to spend a lot of my day going sideways because people don't read the terms of an offer.
2. there were about 125 of you who signed up for zwift, tried to get a foot pod, but didn't flip the free trial period into a paid subscription. no. you're not going to get a foot pod. but you did keep someone else from getting one. any discount, incentive, inducement, bribe, that i pass under your nose has as its end goal, at some point, you opening your wallet. if you don't ever intend to open your wallet, you're going to be frustrated by my activations here on both your behalf and the vendor's behalf.
3. if you don't value what i value, then you're going to miss a lot. has it become clear to you that i value, right now, the stationary industry? brands like zwift, the sufferfest, rouvy, TR, wahoo, cycleops? especially at this time of year? if you don't hang around the stuff i value - like our weekly zwift events, like the 100/100, my guess is that you are going to miss most of the giveaways, offers, discounts that cross the slowtwitch transom.
4. because of those 125 foot pods that were not triggered by people who never subscribed to zwift after initiating the process, i have more foot pods to give away. and i'm just beginning to give stuff away.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman
