Stop wondering about Social Media Marketing for your business…

Explore: A Social Media Explorer Event A social media explorer event Exploring Social Media What is ESM?

Beginning in 2012, Social Media Explorer will present explore – a series of one-day, intensive seminar and workshop events designed to help YOU, understand, embrace and begin deploying social media marketing in your business efforts. Sign up now! Event crowd

2012 Cities & Dates

  • Dallas – Feb. 17th
  • Nashville – Apr. 13th
  • Minneapolis – Aug. 17th
  • Portland – Oct. 19th
  • Irvine – Nov. 16th
Upcoming Event
Explore Dallas
Buy tickets now!

Backupify Needs Your Help

by Jason Falls · October 13, 20097 comments

As you know, I’m involved with a startup called LifestreamBackup.com. Well, today we are officially rebranding ourselves Backupify! As it turns out, when you say “lifestream backup” to people outside the social media world, they think you’re an environmental product or nature preserve. We hug trees as much as the next guy or gal, but it’s not what we’re selling. (Rob has more of an explanation on the Backupify blog here.)

In order to help spread the word about Backupify, we are also making a couple of changes you can benefit from. First, if you haven’t heard yet, we’ll back up your Twitter account absolutely free. This lets you try Backupify out without having to pay anything, plus it backs up your Twitter database (tweets, followers, followees and direct messages). Even if you want to try out the full service, you get two weeks of everything for a free trial.

Second, we are very anxious to know more about your backup needs, so much so that we’re willing to offer up some rewards for your efforts. We have three Amazon gift cards, one for $250.00 and two for $100.00 (more on how to win those in a moment). We also have a supply of premium accounts (10 gigabytes of storage valued at $39.00 per year) to give away. In order to win, all you have to do is blog about Backupify. (YOU GET A FREE PREMIUM ACCOUNT FOR ONE YEAR JUST FOR BLOGGING IT!)

We want to know one of the following things:

  • What part of your online data (photos, emails, Tweets, Facebook data, etc.) is so important, you’d be devastated to lose it and why.
  • What is the top online service we should add to Backupify.com?
  • What is the best thing we could do now to improve the service of backing up your online data?
  • Be sure to disclose you’re blogging about Backupify.com to enter our feedback contest and that you get a free premium account for doing so. (FTC and all … werd.)

Once you blog it, you need to do the following things to get a free premium account and enter the drawing for the Amazon gift cards:

  • Email me (jason – at – socialmediaexplorer.com) with the link to your post.

That’s it. We’ll take each entry, number them, place them into a random draw and pull out the two $100 gift cards, then the $250 gift card in a live drawing on Twitter on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT. Rob May, Backupify’s founder, and I will conduct the drawing our very ownselves. And we may even live stream it to provide accurate transparency.

If you haven’t tried out Backupify yet, please do so. Learn more on the website.

Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, then why not:Leave Comment Below | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter |

About Jason Falls

Jason Falls

Jason Falls is the founder and editor of Social Media Explorer and its companion learning community Exploring Social Media. He is a leading thinker, educator, speaker and consultant in the world of social media marketing, public relations, digital marketing and communications. Please connect with him on Twitter (@JasonFalls).

Other posts by

Tagged as: back up your data, backupify, data backup services, Facebook backup, Flickr backup, lifestream backup, Social Media Marketing, Twitter backup

Comments & Reactions

Comments Policy

Comments on Social Media Explorer are open to anyone. However, I will remove any comment that is disrespectful and not in the spirit of intelligent discourse. You are welcome to leave links to content relevant to the conversation, but I reserve the right to remove it if I don't see the relevancy. Be nice, have fun. Fair?

  • http://blog.backupify.com/2009/10/13/help-us-build-a-better-online-backup/ Help Us Build a Better Online Backup

    [...] Lifestreambackup to Backupify, one of the things we want is more user feedback. So, as Jason Falls wrote today, we are giving away 3 Amazon gift certificates (one $250 and two $100) in return for feedback. Here [...]

  • http://brandimpact.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/backing-up-to-the-cloud/ Backing up to the Cloud « StickyFigure

    [...] of right here and now – a free year of premium service for blogging about Backupify (more here). Yeah, I like freebies like everyone else. But this is no tchotchke – I have countless hours [...]

  • http://markfrisk.com Mark Frisk

    Hey Jason. I like the new name and I'm psyched to give the service a try.

    Wanted to point out that the teaser on the home page — “Includes 20Gb of storage. Only $4.95/month or $29.95/year.” — doesn't jibe with any of the plan options on the register page, neither in annual rate or storage.

    Maybe I'm missing something…

  • http://www.hallicious.com/2009/10/on-line-peace-of-mind/ On-Line Peace of Mind — hallicious

    [...] Disclosure Alert – Backupify is giving away three Amazon Gift Cards, in a random drawing, to individuals who blog about it and list a service that they would like Backupify to backupify. This post is my entry into that contest. You can participate by following the instructions here… [...]

  • http://blog.backupify.com/2009/10/23/your-feedback-can-win-you-an-amazon-gift-card/ Your Feedback Can Win You An Amazon Gift Card

    [...] are only 5 days left in our contest to win a $250 Amazon Gift Card. So if you want a free Backupify account and you have a blog, tell us what you like about our [...]

  • winter123

    Louis Vuitton Matsuya Ginza Store done renewal and displays their “speedy” archives over past years tiffany jewellery online shop sells varieties of tiffany jewelry products, including tiffany bracelet, tiffany necklace, tiffany ring, tiffany earrings, tiffany pendant and various other tiffany replica jewelries. We are one of the biggest suppliers of tiffany jewellery sale
    ,Louis Vuitton has been welcomed by many louis vitton handbag lovers. I think there is no cheaper louis vuitton handbags than you in the world. “speedy” is known as Louis Vuitton’s iconic line. Every arranged bags were very interesting.

    Louis Vuitton Matsuya Ginza Store done renewal and displays their “speedy” archives over past years,Louis Vuitton has been welcomed by many Louis Vuitton Handbags lovers. I think there is no cheaper LV Handbags than you in the world. “speedy” is known as Louis Vuitton’s iconic line. Every arranged bags were very interesting.
    Louis Vuitton Matsuya Ginza Store done renewal and displays their “speedy” archives over past years,Louis Vuitton has been welcomed by many Louis Vuitton Handbag lovers. I think there is no cheaper louis vuitton sale than you in the world. “speedy” is known as Louis Vuitton’s iconic line. Every arranged bags were very interesting.

  • http://blog.backupify.com/2010/03/01/backupify-2012-the-imaginary-future-of-our-featureset/ Backupify 2012: The imaginary future of our featureset

    [...] Backupify Needs Your Help (socialmediaexplorer.com) [...]

– Category – Social Media Marketing

Can Big Brands Go Local?

I've argued recently that we are entering the Age of Relevancy in Marketing.

January 25, 2012
What Happened To Saying Something Nice?
February 8, 2012
Empowering Your Employees With Social Media
February 6, 2012
Integrating Social Media Across The Organization
February 3, 2012
How To Hire A Writer For Your Company Blog
February 2, 2012

Subscribe to SME via email!

Close (X)

Probably the best thing you will do all day.

Select your interests