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YouSendIt Launches “YouSendIt Business Heroes” Contest – Tell Us Your Story!

We are excited to announce the launch of the “YouSendIt Business Heroes Contest” to recognize and honor our amazing users. We’re celebrating our YouSendIt users by rewarding your stories of business heroism with $1,000 in cash, coveted tech gadgets, free YouSendIt service for three years, and some well-earned limelight in the YouSendIt Hall of Fame – an opportunity to be featured on our website and other marketing materials.

Just share your story about how you -- or someone you work with -- saved the day using YouSendIt. We’re looking for stories about people who embody the best of YouSendIt’s attributes—simple, helpful, reliable, and innovative.

The best submission will receive our Grand Prize and win:
• $1,000 cash
• A “Get Away From It All” party with 10 friends
• A 3-year subscription to YouSendIt
• A FlipVideo HD camera
• An honored position in the YouSendIt Hall of Fame
 
Other prizes include:
• Second prize – an iPhone 3G gift card with the YouSendIt Tracker app for the iPhone, a 3-year subscription to YouSendIt for the winner and three friends and a YouSendIt T-shirt.
• Third prize – a 3-year subscription to YouSendIt for the winner and one friend, a $50 Starbucks gift card and a YouSendIt T-shirt.
• People’s Choice – a 3-year subscription to YouSendIt, iPhone 3G gift card with YouSendIt Tracker and a YouSendIt T-shirt.

Submissions will be accepted October 27 through November 24.  The contest is open to individuals who use YouSendIt as part of their workflow to deliver digital files rapidly, easily and securely. To learn more about entering our contest, rules and prizes, please visit our Business Heroes Contest information page.
 
So make us laugh. Make us cry. Make us grateful for having such loyal, helpful and innovative customers.  Tell us your story and everyone has an opportunity to be chosen as one of our heroes.

We look forward to hearing your story!
Good luck!

Attention all YouSendIt Business Plus Subscribers!

Today YouSendIt is pleased to announce that all Business Plus accounts are eligible to add an additional user to their account at no additional cost.  This means you can invite an additional user to enjoy all the benefits of Business Plus – tracking, 2GB file limit, unlimited downloads – with no increase in your subscription fees!

Why did we make this change?

Many of our users have requested that we offer a more flexible YouSendIt subscription for multiple users. With this change in Business Plus, any current Business Plus subscriber will now get two users for your original subscription price. You can also purchase additional users (i.e. a 3rd user) for an additional $14.99 per user per month or $164.89 per user per year. 

 

Special note to any subscribers who are on a promotional plan!

For those users who subscribed to Business Plus at a discounted price, including those who may have a Buy-one-get-one free subscription, you are ALSO eligible to add a second user for free. However, because you are currently on a special yearly Business Plus discounted subscription we cannot support more than two users per Business Plus account at this time. If you need more than two users, please create a new Business Plus account for the additional users. We apologize for the inconvenience and will allow you to add more than two users next year.

So why keep YouSendIt Business Plus all to yourself?

You are only 3 steps away from sharing the power of YouSendIt with a colleague, customer or partner. To invite your FREE second user, please follow these simple instructions:

1. Login now to your YouSendIt account

2. Go to the “My Account “ tab and click on the “User Information” tab

3. Enter the email address of the person you want to invite and click the “Invite User” button

That’s it! An automatic email will be sent to the email address you provided inviting them to accept your invitation and get started.

 

If you have any questions, please visit our Knowledge Base or review the common frequently asked questions below.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I set-up my second user?

What responsibility does this place on me?

 

Will other users be able to see or access my files, documents and send history?

 

Can I add more than one user?

YouSendIt Soars Past 10 Million Users

On November 30^th, 2005 at around 5:35PM PST, YouSendIt registered its first user.  It has been a long road since then but just this morning -- a little ahead of schedule -- we registered our 10,000,000^th user.

 

I want to thank everyone, specifically the loyal YouSendIt user community, who has helped to get us here.  I can’t begin to describe all the heroics performed by the YouSendIt team and encouragement from the YouSendIt fan-club that made this milestone possible.  You have all out-done yourselves!

 

I specifically want to congratulate, Barry Smith, MD and Director of The Rogosin Institute, who is our 10 millionth user.  The Rogosin Institute was established in NewYork City in 1983 as an independent, not-for-profit institution for research, treatment, and education in kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer and lipid (cholesterol) control.  Its primary mission is to advance the understanding of these diseases and to bring the resulting research to patients and clinics as quickly as possible. It employs over 350 doctors, nurses, researchers and administrative employees.

YouSendIt provides the Institute with a an efficient way to get critical research out to the field as quickly as possible. They send data from clinical trials to potential new therapies, research data, protocols, and digital imaging files to researchers, medical panels and government agencies for review.  All of this data has to be sent back and forth quickly, reliably, and, very importantly, securely. 

In addition to this milestone, YouSendIt has experienced its two best quarters in the history of the company this year.  We now have more than 100,000 paid subscribers and have completed over 10,000 new pay-per-use transactions per month (yes, you can just pay for just one file send at a time!). After just two years in the market, YouSendIt’s corporate solution has attracted over 1,500 companies.  To read more, click here for our press release.

Take some time to reflect on the journey -- 10,000,000 of anything is a lot!  Building the world’s most populous city of individuals and businesses happily engaging in conversations that can’t happen anywhere else, is no small feat.

 

I am looking forward to the many more in the years to come!

 

Ranjith Kumaran, Founder & CTO

YouSendIt Service Blocked In China

Since July 15th, 2009, the YouSendIt service has been blocked by China's Golden Shield Project. YouSendIt is not the only service or website that is currently affected – sites such as Facebook and Twitter have also been impacted.

At this time, we have no indication from the Chinese authorities how long this block on our service will last.  We will provide updates to our customers as soon as those become available.

In the meantime, we have identified two potential workarounds below. We realize this may not work for all of our customers and will continue to work diligently to identify better options and solutions.

Potential Workarounds that customers can use – (May want to contact IT department or ISP to find out if these options are available to you):

• The best option is a secure VPN or proxy server that is either in Hong Kong or somewhere outside of the affected regions of China.

• Anonymous proxy servers may also be used as a workaround. Please see examples documented here:
  
  http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship...

 

Thanks for your patience in dealing with this matter.

July Newsletter: YouSendIt is a Prescription for Success

YouSendIt has kicked off a customer newsletter, published every other month, that is designed to keep you informed on product updates, tips and tricks and stories from our customers on how they are using YouSendIt. We will now make the newsletter available on our blog so check back for future editions.

View the July edition of Newsfile online or read the post below.  

The YouSendIt Team

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YouSendIt is a Prescription for Success One of the most effective ways for a business to overcome challenges is to learn how other companies take advantage of innovative solutions to address similar issues. There are thousands of success stories from YouSendIt users that are proof to the power of the company's technology. This month, you will have the opportunity to hear an outstanding case in point during a YouSendIt Insights webcast. AMAG Pharmaceuticals and its 270 employees have deployed YouSendIt to eliminate the resource burden of large e-mail attachments while increasing the security of their communications, gaining audit ability, saving time and reducing costs. AMAG Senior Director of IT, Nate McBride, will join me in this free webcast from 10 to 11 a.m. PST on July 30, and we invite you to participate. Every attendee will receive a complimentary consultation session covering current file transfer infrastructure and the use of YouSendIt to help reduce IT infrastructure demand and improve compliance. To obtain more information, click here to go to our webcast registration page. Even more immediately, this edition of NewsFile offers additional information on the benefits of incorporating YouSendIt into your business processes. We look at the ease, speed and certainty provided by YouSendIt's free plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, which can be downloaded from the YouSendIt site We examine the additional benefits IT departments gain by distributing YouSendIt to every mailbox in their organizations. We learn how Farmers State Bank in Minnesota heightened security and efficiency, while slashing its costs by making YouSendIt an integral part of its loan application and approval process. I want to remind you that we always are eager to receive your feedback and comments on ways you are using YouSendIt and how we can most effectively meet your needs.. Ranjith Kumaran Founder & CTO

PRODUCT TIPS YouSendIt's Microsoft Outlook Plug-in: Now send folders too! Send large files and folders more directly, securely and easily from Microsoft Outlook. Just download the free plug-in. Check out the Press Release Learn more » IT CORNER The Benefits of Adding YouSendIt to Every Mailbox Your network becomes more secure and the efficiency of your entire organization can grow by making YouSendIt available to every employee. Learn more » CASE STUDY Farmers State Bank Gains Secure Way to Send Customer Loan Documents with YouSendIt Loan applications can entail thousands of pages of documents that must be shared among partner banks. Farmers State Bank deployed YouSendIt Corporate Suite to dramatically reduce costs and improve the security of its customers' financial information. Learn more » FEEDBACK Tell Us How You Use YouSendIt We work constantly to ensure that YouSendIt meets your needs. Please let us know how you are using YouSendIt and your comments about the service. Email us at feedback@yousendit.com or send us your story at http://www.yousendit.com/cms/sendusstory

Don't forget to join us next Thursday!

It’s been a while since we’ve hosted a live event so I’m very excited about our Customer Insights Webcast with Nate McBride, Sr., Director of IT for AMAG Pharmaceuticals next Thursday.  Nate will tell us how he tackled email attachment limits and AMAG’s “No FTP” corporate mandate, including best practices on how managed file transfer processes saves the company time, money and resources.  Join in the conversation – we’ll be taking all questions!  Learn more here: http://bit.ly/y5O4q

Ranjith

Ranjith Kumaran, Founder and CTO

Email Entire Folders with Our Outlook Plug-in

Now it’s even easier to end the bounce-back blues, project delays and server pains that come with sending large amounts of information through email. Our latest plug-in allows you for the first time to send entire folders directly from Microsoft Outlook with just a click.

This means no more selecting multiple files as individual attachments. No more zipped folders. No more additional, time stealing steps added to the file sending process.

And no more IT guy pulling his hair out (and yours) over e-mail storage and network bandwidth issues.

Did you know*: the average worker sends and receives 44,700 e-mails per year, 29 percent of which have file attachments.  Of those attachments, 45 percent are larger than 10 MB.  In all, the traffic from each mailbox consumes 1.1 GB of storage annually. 

We’re trying to help end this insanity while speeding up your work day. Without ever leaving Outlook people can now deliver entire folders of information, making access to YouSendIt as simple as ever, and allowing you to finish projects even quicker.

Similar to other YouSendIt plug-ins, including our previous version for Outlook, the plug-in lets you send up to 2 gigabytes of information at any one time, and you can configure it to automatically send all folders of a certain size via YouSendIt.

It’s another reason to fold YouSendIt into your work processes.

Download the YouSendIt plug-in for Outlook at http://www.yousendit.com/cms/plugin-outlook

As always, we value your feedback. If you get a chance, tell us what you think at feedback at yousendit dot com.

 *Osterman Research

Want to hear how other customers are using YouSendIt?

Checkout our upcoming Customer Insights Webcast featuring AMAG Pharmaceuticals Sr. Director of IT Nate McBride and YouSendIt Founder and CTO Ranjith Kumaran as they discuss the IT challenges and lessons from the real world.

Learn more and register: http://bit.ly/YSIWebcast

iPhone App, Outlook Plug-in and Faster Uploads with Express!

Send, receive and track files and folders with our most popular plug-ins.     Send files right from Microsoft Outlook Send files up to 2GB without ever leaving your inbox.       Introducing YouSendIt Tracker for iPhone Track your files on the go with premium file tracking available to all users. Track who downloaded your files and when right from your phone. Find us in the app store under ‘YouSendIt Tracker'.       Upload and Send Files 25% Faster with YouSendIt Express Send, receive and track multiple files and folders from your desktop in less time.   For Windows and Mac:   For U3 Smart Drive:

Overall, Judges Say YouSendIt Is the Best...and it's all because of you!

When it comes to companies offering computer-related services, none is better than YouSendIt; and now we have the judges’ word on it.  This week, in the 7^th Annual American Business Awards competition, YouSendIt was chosen as the Best Overall Company in computer software and services among entrants with up to 100 employees. Our Microsoft Outlook plug-in also was named a finalist in the competition for New Product or Service of the Year in the software-as-a-service category.

The awards, known as the Stevies, were presented at a ceremony in New York City, where YouSendIt won the Best Overall Company competition over half a dozen other finalists, including VerticalResponse and Terra Technology.  The panel of American Business Awards judges looked at impressive business growth over the past year and the efficacy of our core digital file delivery service in making their selection.

It’s a great honor to be recognized by such a prominent organization as the American Business Awards. We’ve worked hard to make YouSendIt the most trusted service for delivering digital files and our thanks go out to those who continue to support us, most notably, our users and devoted employees.

Earlier this year, YouSendIt earned a Webware 100 award (for the third straight year!), was named a Red Herring North America 100 winner and also received a 2009 Product Innovation Award and "Hot Company" designation from Network Products Guide.  

It’s been a great 2009 – here’s to many more successes!

 

Cheers,

Ivan Koon, CEO