When the phone rang at 8:30 on Wednesday morning and the person on the other end said they had just heard about ChumBonus on radio station WTOP (103.5 FM here in DC) and were interested in signing up as a client my heart started racing. I guess my expectation should have been that our excellent PR team would have insured we would get radio coverage, but I was floored. Clients were calling us.
The Washington Business Journal (http://tinyurl.com/ydtd8by) had picked up our press release and WTOP had mentioned it. There was an immediate uptick in the number of people registering on the site and our inboxes were filling up with friends writing to congratulate us. And, clients were registering on the site and posting jobs. High paying jobs with high bonuses for people who referred their friends.
Later when Potomac Tech Wire included us in their daily e-mail blast, the ball really got rolling and people started referring friends to jobs. It was all a little overwhelming. This is not our first startup but it is the first that virtually every company and every individual with an internet connection can participate in and so far the buzz has been great.
It was a good first week. ChumBonus is up, and off and running.
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