BRINGO Blog

Some more local news coverage on BRINGO. Last week NoPhoneTrees.com was featured on KCWE-TV and KMBC-TV in Kansas City/Nebraska areas, and also on WCNC TV (NBC) in the Carolinas, and WISN-TV Milwaukee (ABC).

Looks like we’ve been on TV– Here’s a video clip that was shown on NBC Action News in Kansas City. From what we can tell, we were also on in Sacramento, Seattle, Memphis, Portland, Paducah, and Fargo!  Probably a bunch we’re missing based on our traffic today, but we love the attention!  Hope you enjoy the site.

Thanks to some complementary coverage from TechCrunch and from ABC-7 news in Los Angeles, we’re getting a (more than slight) bump in traffic the past day or so on our customer service phone site: nophonetrees.com.

We’re getting some great feedback from users, both through the feedback forms on our site, the contact us, form, as well as in the comments on this blog (I think my personal favorite is the Poem someone wrote about BRINGO in the comments on Techcrunch:

Just when I’ve become
Madder than a dingo
Along comes relief
In the form of Bringo

No more hold tape
Of elevator retreads
Why wait 30 mins
Before discussing my meds

No, I do not work there
Not pimpin my VC dime
I sing the song of Bringo
Because it gives me back my time.

Thanks, DotPoet — I don’t think I could have ever hope to say it better than that.

We’re doing our best to respond to everyone and also incorporate the tons of constructive comments we’ve gotten to improve the site.

Keep it coming — we read everything you post to us, and are already working on incorporating some of the specific comments we’ve received!

Bringo is in the news again — in the Wall Street Journal,  on NBC in Jacksonville, on Fox News Channel 7 in Miami, and on KPRC in Houston.

We’re really happy with the momentum and feedback we’re getting from people for our services, whether it’s our find a dentist site, or our customer service phone site.  Thanks for all your support and keep the great feedback coming.

The latest press coverage on Bringo — a quick mention in Smartmoney’s print edition (which you can also view online), and a short radio spot on NPR’s Marketplace Money column.

Pretty cool — Mark had a lot of fun with that interview… and surprisingly enough didn’t talk their ear off.

Plenty more where that comes from as we start to gain momentum with our BringoDentist service, so watch this space!

- Clement

OK — I’m finally back and ready to post. To introduce myself, I’m Clement, one of the founders. It’s been a crazy month, with all the attention and traffic we’ve gotten, with almost no promotion of the site. A word of advice to intrepid entrepreneurs: never plan a wedding during your first year in business.

While the past month has been pretty crazy from a work and personal standpoint, it’s been a ton of fun — especially when things like having our website featured on TV happen. That’s right — Fox News Tampa Bay did a feature story on nophonetrees.com during their evening newscast. While none of us personally made an appearance, Bringo was on in a big way.

They tested us on US Air’s phone tree and compared us to dialing the phone tree manually. Bringo won, hands down — it took Bringo 23 seconds to call him back, vs. the 15 minutes they took up trying to navigate the phone tree manually. Not bad, huh?

I think the big benefit for me, apart from the time savings, is saving me from the frustration of having to try to figure out the system and how to get around it. I’d love to hear from anybody who has had similar experiences in working with phone trees or with Bringo — feel free to drop me a line at clement <at> bringo.com, or add a comment to the blog.

I’m in the process of pulling together some of the many blog posts and articles we’ve had written about us — you’ll see them up here soon. Oh, we also put up our privacy policy last week — check it out here.

- Clement