By Luv el 8 May 2009
A while ago, we told you that we will come back to talk about Zankyou for the upcoming developments of this online wedding lists management service. We mentioned that this subject of wedding management was very interesting for online businesses, due to the high interest of the users and the big business that it moves.
Zankyou has made an important bet. They already have the service available in 7 countries including Spain, and they just launched the Italian version. The international expansion for a service of this kind makes a lot of sense, but it doesn’t mean just translating the website. The site content must be adapted to the country and it’s important to strike agreements with companies of those countries for advertising and for the management of the wedding lists of the users.
At Zankyou, they have started generating content on the theme. Perhaps the best way to attract users is through quality information and that’s what they are looking for with their magazine and with their blog.
By Luv el 1 April 2009
Tired of having dogs and cats as pets? Why not try something different…
Now you can put a gremlin in your life for only 10$. How is this possible? metoCube CEO Lucas Rodriguez Cervera explains this in his own words:
We have streamlined our production process so that we can produce great quality gremlins
at extremely low costs. This productivity is possible because employees know what to do and
how to do it at every moment, as they have all the procedures available in metoCube. Click
on the link below to see a description of our gremlin production process.
http://misc.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/Mass+gremlin+production+and+delivery
Disclosure: metoCube is a partner company of iWeekend.
By Luv el 27 February 2009
The first few times I heard of forecast markets was through the blog of Jose Antonio Gallego, and he was the one who informed me of the launch of BBVA’s Actibva Predicciones which has the objective of complementing the economic information services and community that BBVA offers through its portal Actibva.
Actibva Predicciones is a tool for forecasting markets, developed by Strands, in which users try to predict the result of future events in the areas that interest them the most. The themes over which one can make predictions include economy, science, technology, business, politics, sports, health, art and entertainment and fashion and style.
Although I found the web a little bit confusing to use, I think that it penetrates a subject or concept that makes a lot of sense as it involves work around collective intelligence, a phenomenon with a great potential, and increasingly being put into play on the internet. I see the application of this concept most useful when applied to the economy and politics. They say that the masses always get it wrong but counting with the option of knowing people’s sentiment and expectations of what will happen in specific areas in the future could be of great help for companies and other institutions.
By Bob Samii el 23 February 2009
Sugiere.net is born again, this time with Fernando del Pozo as the sole driver behind the helm and without the company of Fivelab. The new version of the website is much more completed and continues to focus on providing channels so that users can make recommendations to businesses.
With the new Sugiere, designed by Customedia, users can become fans of companies, provide personalized feedback and vote or make comments about the recommendations made by other people.
The main functions that are available to businesses for interacting with the users are: manage the community of fans of their products, engage conversations with their customers, adopt suggestions and give details of the process to their customers, promote and add new products, conduct opinion surveys about a new idea or product.
By Javier el 19 February 2009
Founded in 2006, Spotify (a combination of spot and identify) just went viral. They received the music website of the year award in the UK, and the New York Times calls them the “iTunes killer”. People can’t stop talking about it in Twitter. We thought it would be interesting to do an interview with Lutz Emmerich, Spotify’s country manager in Spain. Hope you enjoy the interview:
Please present yourself, tell us about your professional career in Internet Business and tell us what is your function in Spotify?
I work now for 12 years in the online Business in different functions like Consultant, Sales Director or Country Manager in several companies like United Internet, Ogilvy, Wanadoo, TradeDoubler, etc. For Spotify I am the Country Manager heading up the local office and responsible for roling out of the marketing and sales strategy in Spain.
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