Change is a Good Thing
If you’ve recently returned to Engage, you no doubt noticed a few changes to our service. The awesome team at work here at Engage is constantly striving to make our service more fun, easier to use and the best place for introductions anywhere on the Web.
While we hope you like some of our upgrades, the best is still yet to come… but I’ll get to that in a moment. One thing I want to especially point out is the fact that we’ve begun charging for the first time for a few of our premium services (for instance, “see who’s expressed an interest in being introduced to me”). Over time, we’ll be adding to our premium services which you can access without any interruption to your Engage experience for a very low price: just $5.95 per month.
I’m clear some folks will not love having to pay for our more premium (and let’s face it, some of our most compelling) features. But we are, after all, a business, and charging for our more premium services allows us to earn our keep. Nevertheless, I think you’ll continue to find our Engage introductions platform delivers a lot of fun and real results you won’t find elsewhere for what is a very low monthly subscription rate. I look forward to hearing from you on this front.
Now, as to what’s yet to come…
First, our creative team of Will (graphics), Alicia (copy) and Estelle (front-end engineer, which is Silicon Valley-speak for the person who makes it possible for you to see on your computer all the pretty things Will designs) are at work on a whole new look and feel for Engage.com. This will include a new logo and tagline, a whole new color palette and some slight revisions to how the site is organized — all of which we think will make the site easier and more fun to use. These changes are also about emphasizing what makes Engage special and unique — that we enable introductions on the Web, helping friends and family to introduce people they know to interesting new friends (or maybe even that special new person in your life.)
Second, Engage is taking its show on the road. Our intrepid engineers Patrick, Mike and Eric are hard at work building versions of the Engage experience that will live seamlessly inside the social networks you may call home-on-the-Web, including Facebook, MySpace, and / or your iPhone, among others. Our first effort is focused on bringing Engage to Facebook, which we’re very close to launching, so if you hang out there, be sure to keep an eye out for us!
Finally, we’re going to be undertaking a campaign to encourage all our users to invite their friends and family to join the fun on Engage. Engage is only as good as the community that embraces it — and we can only hope to achieve our mission of “introducing the world, one wonderful person at a time” through you, the people we seek to serve. All of us at Engage are clear we have to earn your participation and so we remain hard at work creating an environment that makes it both fun and easy to make introductions — changing lives for the better as a result. Please continue to let us know how we can make things better and better here on Engage.com and via our new versions of Engage on Facebook and beyond.
Engage. Nice to meet you.
