Noise from the Basement

We want to celebrate the 20th annual Earth Day with a special promotion!  This will be a real one, not like the bogus Mini one.

Big bold print:

Free shipping with every copy of Mini-Compressor purchased.  Forever.  No questions asked, no codes.

How?  That’s easy!  Run, don’t walk, to the Buy Now button on our website.

How does this help the environment?  We save on packaging and gas to get that big cardboard box to your door… aaaaannnddd…. everyone else is greenwashing these days.  We thought we’d jump on the bandwagon.  It couldn’t hurt, right?

Let’s be honest.  Sales of Mini-Compressor have been steady, but what we really want is 4 bazillion people to buy a copy and tell 2 friends.  Then we can have bags with dollar signs on them!  And build our dream garage_*_.

We’ve been working our little brains to think of ways to market our flagship product, on a basement level budget, and this is what we’ve come up_**_

SaturdayMP has been around for a long time.  The concept of a weekend software company is how our friends and acquaintances know us (dreamers).  Sure, we incorporated just over 2 years ago, but the name has been around for longer in our circles.  This past winter, Chris had a few opportunities to see some familiar faces and catch them up on our ‘latest venture’.  Imagine our embarrassment when he had to 1) borrow a pen to 2) write down his contact info on the back of a gas receipt.  Seriously!  Doesn’t this dude have a business card?  That was my next project.

Once upon a time I received an e-mail with some questions about Mini-Compressor.  I answered the fellow’s questions and he seemed happy with my answers.  Unfortunately he didn’t buy a copy of Mini-Compressor and after a bit he faded from memory.

Fast forward several weeks to my phone ringing.  I answer it and it’s the same fellow that e-mailed me - he has a very distinct and easy to remember name.  He asks me if he can buy a copy of Mini-Compressor to which I answer yes, a bit confused.  He then asks how he should pay for it.  Would I prefer a cheque or credit card?

A while ago I got an e-mail from a customer that had just bought Mini-Compressor (which I think is the best image compression software in the world but I’m a bit biased) but was getting warning from Norton when he tried to install it.  The warning he was getting was Suspicious.Cloud.5.D.  This is a low level warning from Norton that a file is suspicious but could also be a false positive.  I quickly double checked that the website had not been compromised.  To be on the safe side I downloaded and scanned Mini-Compressor with both Windows Defender and Malwarebytes.  Neither reported any errors.