Comments on: I’ve Got My Zumbox. Now What? http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/ Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:18:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rob Reed http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Rob Reed Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:31:44 +0000 http://blog.zumbox.com/?p=91#comment-21 Dale: Currently, you have to send the recipient a separate e-mail to let them know that you’ve sent mail to their Zumbox. The feature you recommend is something we’re considering. Thanks for the suggestion! It’s a great idea. Dale: Currently, you have to send the recipient a separate e-mail to let them know that you’ve sent mail to their Zumbox. The feature you recommend is something we’re considering. Thanks for the suggestion! It’s a great idea.

]]> By: Rob Reed http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Rob Reed Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:26:13 +0000 http://blog.zumbox.com/?p=91#comment-22 Avguste: Companies like BofA have spent a lot of money trying to convince customers to use pure online bill pay with little success. Adoption rates are in the single digits. Zumbox is a much easier and familiar way for people to migrate from paper to paperless. So we’re confident companies like BofA will start by testing Zumbox and find that the adoption rates are much higher, which means they’ll be saving a lot of money…not to mention trees. We’ll do our best to contact these companies, and we’ll soon provide some tools that customers can use to nudge companies toward our more cost effective and environmentally friendly way to send postal mail. Avguste: Companies like BofA have spent a lot of money trying to convince customers to use pure online bill pay with little success. Adoption rates are in the single digits. Zumbox is a much easier and familiar way for people to migrate from paper to paperless. So we’re confident companies like BofA will start by testing Zumbox and find that the adoption rates are much higher, which means they’ll be saving a lot of money…not to mention trees.

We’ll do our best to contact these companies, and we’ll soon provide some tools that customers can use to nudge companies toward our more cost effective and environmentally friendly way to send postal mail.

]]> By: Avguste Antonov http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Avguste Antonov Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:49:49 +0000 http://blog.zumbox.com/?p=91#comment-23 Hello I love the Zumbox idea,however where I am getting lost is how is Zumbox going to get businesses like Bank of America,employers and the like to use it. Many companies,such as Bank of America refuse customers emails suggesting new technologies Thanks Hello
I love the Zumbox idea,however where I am getting lost is how is Zumbox going to get businesses like Bank of America,employers and the like to use it.
Many companies,such as Bank of America refuse customers emails suggesting new technologies

Thanks

]]> By: Dale Sande http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Dale Sande Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:01:31 +0000 http://blog.zumbox.com/?p=91#comment-24 @Dianne - I 100% agree. I would assume that being a user of Zumbox would be free as in the USPS world. After all, it doesn't cost me anything to RECEIVE mail. @Zumbox - I am on the same page as everyone else. This is a GREAT idea and I am a large supporter of a paperless world, but there is a lot of missing information here. For one, if I send a litter to a person who has not yet registered on Zumbox, is there any notification to that person that there are letters waiting in their mailbox? Maybe if a letter was sent via Zumbox, then it would be up to Zumbox to notify that person in the hopes of them becoming a member? A solution like this could really be driven my current members to get more and more people into Zumbox. that is my $0.02. @Dianne – I 100% agree. I would assume that being a user of Zumbox would be free as in the USPS world. After all, it doesn’t cost me anything to RECEIVE mail.

@Zumbox – I am on the same page as everyone else. This is a GREAT idea and I am a large supporter of a paperless world, but there is a lot of missing information here.

For one, if I send a litter to a person who has not yet registered on Zumbox, is there any notification to that person that there are letters waiting in their mailbox? Maybe if a letter was sent via Zumbox, then it would be up to Zumbox to notify that person in the hopes of them becoming a member?

A solution like this could really be driven my current members to get more and more people into Zumbox.

that is my $0.02.

]]> By: Dianne http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Dianne Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:08:49 +0000 http://blog.zumbox.com/?p=91#comment-20 You keep referring tot he fact that Zumbox will be free to qualified mail senders. How much wil it be for users? I now have a Zumbox... assuming I start getting my mail digitally and sign up for paperless options with my qualified mail senders, when the beta ends, what are my choices? To pay an at-present unknown fee, which may or may notbe acceptable to me, or having to undo all the effort I went to to set up paperless? You keep referring tot he fact that Zumbox will be free to qualified mail senders. How much wil it be for users? I now have a Zumbox… assuming I start getting my mail digitally and sign up for paperless options with my qualified mail senders, when the beta ends, what are my choices? To pay an at-present unknown fee, which may or may notbe acceptable to me, or having to undo all the effort I went to to set up paperless?

]]> By: Dianne http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Dianne Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:05:15 +0000 http://blog.zumbox.com/?p=91#comment-19 Suggestions: 1) Hire VP of Marketing right away, as you need their help. Your brilliant idea should be significantly better presented on your website. 2) Let your users help you recruite qualified mail senders as follows: - Offer a pdf on your website that users can download and print, that explains Zumbox benefits to qualified mail senders. - Users can then include printed pdf in correspondance they mail to qualified mail senders (paying bills, etc...). Suggestions:

1) Hire VP of Marketing right away, as you need their help. Your brilliant idea should be significantly better presented on your website.

2) Let your users help you recruite qualified mail senders as follows:

- Offer a pdf on your website that users can download and print, that explains Zumbox benefits to qualified mail senders.

- Users can then include printed pdf in correspondance they mail to qualified mail senders (paying bills, etc…).

]]> By: Rob Reed http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Rob Reed Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:13:10 +0000 http://blog.zumbox.com/?p=91#comment-18 Dave: Your USPS mail and Zumbox mail are independent systems. The transition requires that those companies that send you mail start to adopt the Zumbox service (for free), which will then give you the option to stop getting paper. When they send you a bill or statement via Zumbox, you click "Do Not Papermail", and that stops the paper version from being sent to you any longer. But the mail is never scanned. Mail senders, such as your insurance company, will simply send you the digital version of your statement w/o having to print or scan it at all. That's how all mail works in the Zumbox system. It's totally paperless. Dave: Your USPS mail and Zumbox mail are independent systems. The transition requires that those companies that send you mail start to adopt the Zumbox service (for free), which will then give you the option to stop getting paper. When they send you a bill or statement via Zumbox, you click “Do Not Papermail”, and that stops the paper version from being sent to you any longer.

But the mail is never scanned. Mail senders, such as your insurance company, will simply send you the digital version of your statement w/o having to print or scan it at all. That’s how all mail works in the Zumbox system. It’s totally paperless.

]]> By: Dave http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Dave Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:42:33 +0000 http://blog.zumbox.com/?p=91#comment-17 okay, i'm hooked on the idea - but the big thing missing from your site is an explanation of exactly how one converts incoming mail or somehow routes to digital transfer...so any help there would be very welcome. what i mean is, quite literally, what happens to my incoming mail and junk that still comes via snail mail - how would one (ever) direct it to zumbox's inbox interface? that part is very hard to understand and there are no visual explanations...feels very "outgoing" right now...the risk here is that some marketer will load a million names and places, blast out a million pieces of lit, and then a million people will never see a notification that they have new mail that's been scanned in.... okay, i’m hooked on the idea – but the big thing missing from your site is an explanation of exactly how one converts incoming mail or somehow routes to digital transfer…so any help there would be very welcome. what i mean is, quite literally, what happens to my incoming mail and junk that still comes via snail mail – how would one (ever) direct it to zumbox’s inbox interface? that part is very hard to understand and there are no visual explanations…feels very “outgoing” right now…the risk here is that some marketer will load a million names and places, blast out a million pieces of lit, and then a million people will never see a notification that they have new mail that’s been scanned in….

]]> By: RB http://blog.zumbox.com/2009/02/ive-got-my-zumbox-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-16 RB Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:32:37 +0000 http://blog.zumbox.com/?p=91#comment-16 This is astounding. I wonder if it'd be easier for the elderly to grasp than email. This is astounding. I wonder if it’d be easier for the elderly to grasp than email.

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