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Rodeo producer North American Midway Entertainment saved $25,000 in the first six weeks using Dropbox by eliminating overnight FedEx shipments with paperwork.
by gr366 16y ago
Rodeo producer North American Midway Entertainment saved $25,000 in the first six weeks using Dropbox by eliminating overnight FedEx shipments with paperwork.
Wow. Talk about having a great story to tell. I'm sure there's a lot of individual users of Dropbox (myself included), but the business cost-savings angle could be a huge one for them to pursue.
- Groxx 16y agoSince Dropbox only does one-way access for people without an account, I assume they saved 25k by distributing paperwork, not receiving. This implies they've been wasting almost $5,000 per week because they didn't find a content host / run an FTP / frickin E-MAIL the stuff. What. The. (technological) Fail. You'd think they'd look into something like that a little earlier, as with a bit of setup an FTP host can be essentially as easy. edit: hell, just use a Google Docs form, that handles distribution and filling it out and combining the results.
- dsc 16y agoGoogle docs has an API, they also have folders. http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html I've used Google docs folders for team projects that include file types other than those used for documents, it simply 'stores' it in the folder along with revision history. Is any weekend hacker thinking what I'm thinking?
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- tel 16y agoI think that's the point of Dropbox. Setting up FTP isn't as easy. Dropbox is so friendly people use it in lieu of more complete, cheaper solutions.
- arethuza 16y agoI agree - FTP requires servers to be set up etc. In most corporate environments that can take a long time (for good reasons, you don't go changing perimeter firewalls without some kind of change control) - much easier for everyone to install Dropbox and start sharing stuff in minutes.
- Groxx 16y agoSetting it up - absolutely. Using it once it's in place - pretty close. I don't expect them to set it up themselves. Just to hunt someone down and pay them a couple thousand to solve their ridiculously expensive problem.
- statictype 16y agoFor a company that isn't very tech savvy (which may be the case for a company distributing so much papers around) dropbox provides the benefit of being dead-simple.