Howdy Strangers,
Our eskimos have been busy here at Igloo HQ this winter, gearing up to launch a series of new products and updates for School - our software training and consulting division which focuses primarily on SketchUp and Google Earth training. I just wanted to take a couple minutes to recognize the invaluable role that our clients and customers have played throughout the course of our development as a company.
To everyone of you who have supported us in our efforts to pursue our passion for educating people around the world about this funky little program called SketchUp, we really appreciate the role that you play in making our dream a reality.
We started teaching SketchUp for @Last Software back in early 2004, and put out our very first SketchUp training DVD back in '05. In early 2008 we achieved another milestone when School was officially deemed a Google Authorized Training Center. Becoming an ATC was something we've always wanted to do, but the last 8 months have taught us that organizing a country-wide live training effort can be quite a handfull! Still we've continued to grow and improve each month. We're incredibly proud of the fact that over the past year, our band of misfit SketchUp geniuses have disseminated their priceless wisdom to over 3000 SketchUp users in over 20 cities across the country.
Whether you're someone that we've had the pleasure to meet in person at one of our live classes, or whether you've watched our DVDs, or watched our online video tutorials, or if you were one of the 1500 people who have subscribed to our YouTube channel, or the 10,000 people who have subscribed to our podcasts on iTunes or whether you became a fan of ours on facebook.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!
When we first sat our scrawny butts in front of a camera, we honestly hoped that someone out there would watch our stuff and benefit from the goop that dribbled out of our brains, but never really imagined that our little rinky dink productions about SketchUp would reach so many people. Our podcasts have been watched nearly 2,000,000 times by over 30,000 people in over 50 countries around the world. I'm not sure, but I think that means we're almost legitimate internet celebrities. I'm gonna have to do some research on that. Maybe even get myself a new t-Shirt.
Thank you to everyone who's ever complained. It made us better. Thank you to everyone who said thank you, It gave us hope that we were getting better. And thank you to everyone who took a chance on our little experiment. We're really looking forward to all the exciting things that we're working on for you. We're going to be rolling out a new website and a bunch of new products and courses in 2009. We hope you'll stay tuned as we grow this thing into a legit company and we hope you'll continue to help us make School the most bad-ass resource for learning SKP.
.SKP 'til we .DIE!!!
Sincerely,
Mike Tadros - and all of your friends at Igloo Studios
