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Behind The Firm List Blog
How Did You Find Out About This Site?
For those of you paying attention, there's a question I ask every firm which submits themselves
to be added to The Firm List? I ask them "How Did You Find Out About This Site?" I've gotten a wide range of answers over the
years, which has allowed me to find out where my site is being mentioned, who's been spreading good news about the site, as well
as giving me a general insight into the weirdness that is... well, life.
There was a particular entry today which just seemed.... weird. So I decided it might be of interest to those of you reading
this part of the site to see some of the entries I've found to be interesting or insightful. I will not indicate who made any
of these entries as that's a matter of privacy and it really doesn't matter anyways.
Some that were particulary unusual or helpful:
- You were in a binder here in the office. Not sure exactly.
- my homey T Dogg told me about it
- on computer we bought
- taming lions
- link on a site... can't remember which one, but I bookmarked it
- I'm sorry, I don't recall
- i found it.
- printed sheet
- hmm can't remember sorry :-( the net I guess
- Cyberspace
- From cool friends
- I came across your company in our log view.
- Someone
- i found the firm list on the one and only internet.
- browsing the web and a vague memory
- I once had lunch with Matte in Chicago.
- here
- Found the link in my favourites folder!
- Someone said we were on it! And we're NOT! =)
Some that were fairly common:
- Portland Webgrrls
- thebestdesigns.com
- coolhomepages.com
- about.com
- Client
- Google
- Chamber of Commerce
- A friend forwarded site
- colleague referral
- from a friend
- word of mouth
- CNET Design Dispatch
- NEWD awards
- Business Associate
- Business in Vancouver publication
- WebMonkey article
- Elbow Grease (Webmonkeys mailinglist)
- email list
- AIGA
- Richard Karl Danielson: Book - Homepage and Splashpage... Web Site Graphics by ROCKPORT
- Monterey Bay Digital Eve List Serve
- grapevine
- My Employees
- WWWAC list
- Futurize Your Enterprise Bulletin Board
- By checking a competitors links
- A List Apart
- Silicon Valley Webgrrls
- Article from IDG.net.
- from another company on the list
- Kinko's Impress Magazine
- Digitalmass News Article
- Darwin Magazine
- Micropublishing News
- search engine
- School
- Mentioned in a post on dreamless.org
- DC Web Women
- Web Graphics Magazine
- Link in were-here forum
- Larry Chase's newsletter
- The Contract Employee's Handbook
- Dreamweaver Newsgroup
- biz marketplace newsgroup
- Ahref.com
- Internet.works magazine
- email from Dummies Daily
- SearchDev shut down notification
- other SF based design companies
- I have been visiting it for a long time so I can't really remember.
- devhead newsletter
- I know Matte
- newspaper
- newstoday.com posting
- from a recruiter
- This link was on the Oak Park/River Forest community Web site
- e-mail listing referral from SFWOW
- Someone mentioned it on Flashkit
- I heard about the Firm List by reading a Brazilian Web Magazine
- Netprenuer Breakfast Meeting
- AZIPA mail list
- From the CIO magazine
- CommArts Website
- The Boston Globe
- Through Revolution online magazine
- Digital-Women email list post
Some that just thoroughly confused me:
- Onlinesweeps.com
- I work there
And of course some that were just flattering:
- doesn't everybody know?
- You are famous...
- People in the industry are talking about it.
- Industry buzz
People also occasionally use the space to write me a little message, which is nice of them, and also sometimes funny. Here
are some selected entries:
- please ignore my stupid email asking how to add myself to the list. it's late here. i found the form
- I've been referring to your site for a while now, and FINALLY got my site done enough to list it. Thanks for your help.
- Your site has some cool ideas. What is the name of the very tiny non anti-alias font used?
