Ever heard your site mentioned during conversation?

[thecoalman]

A very good friend of mine that owns a hardware store recently went through the flooding that effected Northeastern Pennsylvania. I was helping him out selling off the flood damaged goods. Some of the product was related to my website and I got into a conversation with the customer concerning the product.... He casually mentions my site as great reference for knowledge. :)

I don't know how many of you experienced this but what a great feeling.

Anyone else ever have someone mention a site you own?

[piatkow]

Been mentioned on discussion boards but never heard it mentioned in real life by somebody who didn't know it was mine.

[wheel]

No, unlikely to happen. But I've had people in the small rural town I live in contact me off the web, not realizing that I'm one street over from them.

And I had a local competitor - who's backyard backed on to mine - scrape my content. And then deny that it was my content.

SOmeone mentioning it in conversation would be cool though - then you've got yourself some market penetration.

[mark_roach]

My mother in law was overseas a few years back and someone asked her if she had heard of my site. My mother in law was my first ever member and the reason I started the site. I think she was quite impressed.

[incrediBILL]

Yup.

My oldest site gets mentions online and offline.

Then they see the logo on my shirt and anonymity is all over ;)

added: it's also been listed in magazines and paperback books too!

[jecasc]

I once came into a hotel and while checking in I noticed someone in the back sitting on a computer, ordering from my website.
The flow of money. Out of my bank-account and in again...

[johnhh]

I visited a communication-based tourist attraction once that has a free-use "internet center" .
I set all the browsers, on all the machines I could get at, to default to my home page ... got great traffic for a couple of weeks.. guess someone noticed in the end
On topic - often people mention my site - I get a warm feeling inside.

[Habtom]

Yea, a few times.

The first time, I just took the recommendation and kept quiet, as I never in real life wanted to associate myself with the website at the time.

The second time, in a large gathering someone mentioned it, and briefly mentioned I created it ... and he took it as some sort of joke, and he kept talking about it ... and I let him do the talking, never stressed the site was mine.

It is fun to put faces to the virtual visitors to the website once in a while.