new office new number
We’re almost settled in our new home at Alex’s Creative Space, quick note to say a few things…
1) March 10th 5-9pm is our open evening office launch – please come down for delicious snacks and a nose around our office – we’ll also have a prize draw on the night.
2) Our phone number is (finally) sorted: 0845 5272 492 please update your records
3) Startup-meetup is moving… the date and time remains the same (3rd Thurs from 10am-12) – in case you hadn’t already guessed where its going… Alex’s Good Food Cafe (ie upstairs!)
Read Morewhat if twitter
started charging to sign up?
Part of the value in Twitter for a user is the ability to communicate with a wider circle of influence than you might otherwise of been able, as the masses join twitter the danger is that the noise to signal ratio increases making it less useful – but what if they’d started charging when they hit a certain number of users?
Would it start to make some real money that so far it has only hinted at being able to earn? Would people of left the service for another? Certainly charging existing users, would create a mass exodus… but some of the attraction for early adopters is the exclusive club feel – that would be, in some ways, amplified.
This is a very hypothetical post btw – it came from being asked why twitter was anything more than “the next big thing” – in their words, “it was all about friends reunited, then myspace, then facebook… now everyones joining twitter – its just another fad, I’m not signing up”.
That conversation led me to the thought above and also to wonder, what’s the next big thing?
What if twitter IS just a fad?
Some people lose a lot of money, the cool kids move on, the spammers and randomness takes over – this is based on what some people would perceive happened to myspace as a platform, although I would argue its reverted back to its “native” state of being a good place for bands/musicians/DJs/performers.
So what do you think?
Is it a fad?
If so, what’s next?
Read Moretwitter favourites
A great tip for sharing the wheat and not the chaff from your twitter feed is to make use of the favourites feed – anything of interest I see on twitter, I’ll click the star to add it to my favourites.
My favourites are then published as an RSS feed, which I’ve added to the side of my blog under my twitter updates – have a look, you’ll find some interesting stuff.
I’ll add to this post a diagram of how all my RSS/twitter stuff floats around the interwebs later
Read Moreengagement equals trust
Nationwide and Specsavers were obviously present at the last seminar I gave…
…well, maybe… both have launched campaigns about how trusted they are, and like I said, it’s an important message in the current recession (or “downturn” as the BBC likes to phrase it…)
The key message from this seminar was: engagement = trust = sales – click through to see a copy of the slides.
Social Media Marketing in my opinion, is ALL about engagement it needs to be a primary sales message for most industries to rebuild confidence and make sales.
Read Moresoftware to save money
I was talking to a non-techy friend last night and he asked me how I could afford to set-up an office and buy the software/hardware I needed to get going in the current climate.
As promised J here are my top 5 tips for cutting costs (thought I’d share it with everyone):
1) Phones: He uses just a mobile at around £70pm – I use VOIPfone £10pm inc 0845 number
2) Photo/graphic work: Photoshop CS4 £450 – the excellent Gimphoto £0
3) MS Office + Outlook £499 – Open office and Thunderbird £0
4) Project management software? I use the self hosted Taskfreak to manage my to do list, it allows me to share with others too, especially when combined with…
5) Google docs
£1700+ saved in one post, winner.
If you’ve not used these tools, I can’t recommend them highly enough
As for the office, its a hot desking environment shared with 2 others, my furniture, renovated PC and other bits have come to £135 in total.
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