From today's earnings release and CC.
"The important issue now in front of us is leveraging the early success of MailStation into the marketing of our MIVO family of e-mail appliances and continuing to establish a growing and stable base of recurring, subscriber-based revenue," Locklin said. "We ended the year with 78,000 activated customers and total MailStation sales of more than 110,000 through the retail channel, including 76,000 in the fourth quarter alone. As of yesterday, we had more than 95,000 activated subscriptions as holiday gift recipients continued to sign up for our services, with 46,000 of those coming in the fourth quarter. Another accomplishment during 2000 that we're very pleased with is penetration of the retail market channel, an absolute must for products and services such as ours. We ended the year with more than 14,000 storefronts of major national retail chains, from consumer electronics to mass merchandise chains. So we have in place a lot of enthusiastic retailers who have experienced the potential sales power of our Internet appliances and who are providing more and better shelf space and increasing their participation in retail circular promotions.
95,000 activated subscriptions shows some very decent growth. |
