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Re: 10 Things a B2B Company Can Do to be Social Now

Engago team — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:24:17 -0000

The main problem with a B2B blog is not to generate the traffic, but to get the visitors to visit the B2B website itself.
People interested in the blog post are not necessarily interested in your web site or solutions.

Re: Demandbase improves on B2B Sales

Engago team — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:54:25 -0000

Not forgetting LEADSExplorer that has even other benefits and includes customer retention and sales process support.

Re: Enecto for Lead Identification

Engago team — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:20:41 -0000

After years of pounding people in companies with email marketing and call center operators reading scripts (outbound), inbound marketing is upon us.

People are educated enough to find themselves solutions and advice on the Internet for the problems of the company.

Some of these solutions are not solely for lead generation, but also to be used for customer retention (requires a customer data base) and measuring the nurturing efficiency.

Re: Why The Flow Of Innovation Has Reversed

Engago team — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:59:49 -0000

Where ever the innovation drive comes from ("top" or "bottom"), only the best will take benefit from it.
in non-mature industries, innovation is no longer limited to a restricted number of people and companies. Almost anywhere in the industrialized world people and companies can bring innovation as the price to enter the arena in non-mature industry segments has been lowered (especially in web services).
Just don't try to bring innovation in car design or manufacturing (mature industries), as there the price to enter is higher than ever before.

Re: Great Leaders Are Predictable

Engago team — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:38:26 -0000

Steve Jobs is predictable.
Steve Ballmer is less predictable, except for the loudness of his expressions.

Re: 10 Things I Love About Cold Calling!

Engago team — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:22:29 -0000

If you would cold call on warm companies, those that have visited your website, your success rate would be much higher.

7 out 10 business deals start with an Internet search.

Just use a website visitor identification service that provides the company names of your website visitors and website data to qualify these as raw leads.

Re: Cold Calling – Where do you stand?

Engago team — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:33:00 -0000

Calling all possible prospects in your market is a huge undertaking.
Moreover timing needs to be right: the called person needs to work in a company that has a problem that your solution solves.

The probability to get company and person and solution and timing right is very low.

When you cold call on companies that have visited your website, using the knowledge of the product pages they have visited, you eliminate 2 probabilities.

Thus the chance to find someone interested is much higher.

This means 100 times or more less cold calling.

You only need to have a service that reveals the company name of your website visitors and the pages visited by these companies.

Re: Trying To Make Sense of The Brokerage Bust

Engago team — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:43:37 -0000

After the Credit Crunch the TechCrunch?
Start-ups and grownup companies will not get money from VC's or bankers, but need to have paying customers.

Still the trend is clear: The Internet will be the place to trade.
Compare the costs of a transaction in a financial institution:
- Face to face at the counter: $10 to $15
- ATM: $1
- Online: $.10 to $.15
Companies will need to generate leads online and nurture their prospects and customers online.
The digital divide will only become bigger.

Re: After Twitter Authority Here Comes Facebook Authority

Engago team — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:45:45 -0000

True friends don't need to be graded.
True friend you don't count: you have them.

True friends are there when you need them.

Re: Can Large Companies Help Small Companies Find Business Models (An Open M&A Question)

Engago team — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:01:31 -0000

It is not about finding a business model:
Anyone who starts an enterprise should start with a demand or problem of a market segment that your solution solves at a certain price.

Problem gets Solution @ Price

Re: The bit.ly Investment Makes Sense to Me (the Feedburner of Twitter)

Engago team — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:04:40 -0000

As Bit.ly has started out completely free, how will they manage to impose a premium service?
They will need to build a lot of usefull features into Bit.ly before anyone is going to pay.

Re: Cuil might just be cool enough to become the Google-killer in search

Engago team — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:57:23 -0000

We tried to search for our websites: company and solution.
Our solution website has Alexa rank of above 950,000.

The name search is case sensitive: thus that will not be so evident for anyone to use.

The generic search prefers to show websites that reference our website, but not the actual solution website.
The images next to the results are not related to our content or the articles.

It doesn't index phrases on the home page.

CUIL sure has other rules for the game.
By all means it tries to avoid the main website and prefers others like: directories and article sites.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

Engago team — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:36:35 -0000

We got StumbledUpon twice and that resulted in many website hits, the number of visits more than doubled on those days.
Sadly most of these visitors, just visited one page.

Re: Demandbase launches lead generation platform with Adobe funding

Engago team — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:26:52 -0000

It seems the solution of DemandBase is mainly a contact data base. You need to purchase the contacts that are interesting to your company. Then hope some of these contacts visit your website.
This is the inverse model and quite different from the competitors in this market, who have web services (no download) that will try to identify the company name of all visitors (large, medium and small companies). Then you qualify the visiting company by pages visited and number of visits and company background as leads (or not).
Then you start looking for a contact within the visiting company.

Re: Demandbase launches lead generation platform with Adobe funding

Engago team — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:04:21 -0000

@Kathleenwierisch:
a) If you have to find new leads, you have to cold call your entire population of potential customers. By knowing the visiting companies, you can cold call on warm companies which is more effective as explained on http://www.leadsexplorer.com
b) Once in the sales process, being able to visually analyze the reactions of the prospects on your communications (mail, calls, meetings,...) will help you to adjust the message.
c) When a customer visits your website, it is time to call them. http://www.leadsexplorer.com/en/le/l/Visitor_tr...

Re: Bigger, longer & uncut: The second Microsoft Seinfeld ad

Engago team — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:46:28 -0000

Strange you mention the OLMBlog (on Gates - Sitcom career - Al Bundy) in your track backs, which is actually a post on the LEADSExplorer blog - and was trackbacked.

Re: Chad Hurley’s 2018: Video wristwatches for all

Engago team — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:37:05 -0000

SMS (or Texting) was just an add on that was possible because of a "slack" opening in the communication protocol.
Nobody believed people would use 162 characters to communicate, but as it wouldn't cost much to install the suppliers proposed it to the operators at a low cost.
Miracle happened when people all over Europe started to SMS. It became the best revenue part for GSM operators.

A service that had an un-predicted success will last for many years to come.

Will people turn to video?
As MMS (still pictures) didn't catch on because of high cost, who will use video?

A business model that could work:
Uploading of videos overnight sponsored by advertising
As networks have low traffic overnight, it would be possible to send to videos to your mobile during the night. The next morning during commuting, you could watch these videos mixed with the supporting advertising or film trailers.
Thus instead of getting your free printed newspaper you would get free videos.

Green: Less waste of paper!

Re: Where the Microsoft ads go from here: Head-on at Apple

Engago team — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:56:21 -0000

So Bill Gates stops his sitcom career? Great.
http://bit.ly/1yprQ2
Hopefully the new ads are better

Re: The first Microsoft Seinfeld ad

Engago team — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:38:59 -0000

Bill Gates should forget about his sitcom career and stick to his business.
http://bit.ly/1yprQ2
The shoe shop points at Al Bundy
The weird mysterious family could also be Bundy family.

The main problem of Microsoft is how to sell upgrades. Their market isn't expanding, thus only upgrades are the goal.
Still Bill and Jerry are not funny and there is no relation to go and buy an XP upgrade to Vista.

Re: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Microsoft?

Engago team — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:43:04 -0000

How is Bill Gates going to explain to his share holders he dumped $300mio?
In Holywood they make several feature movies with this amount of money, including the expensive promotion campaign.

Re: Want to be the next Google? Create enduring values

Engago team — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:17:07 -0000

Google is based upon their own technology for search and organizing computer systems.
Additionally they got into advertising business in order to make money.

The next Google needs to have their own technology too.

As Brin says:
"When it’s too easy to get money, then you get kind of a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley."

Thus thanks to the CreditCrunch and the following TechCrunch the new leaders will emerge soon from the dust.

Re: Triple reader poll: Will the bailout pass? Will the economic turmoil impact tech? Will crisis cause a VC shake out?

Engago team — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:41:11 -0000

Will there be a TechCrunch after the Credit Crunch? http://bit.ly/2KYKVW
Doom or innovation drive?
During recessions consumers and businesses need to review their spending and change their habits. New opportunities for other solutions that bring benefits in cost saving.

Re: David de Weese of Paul Capital Partners on the economic turmoil’s effect on the secondary market

Engago team — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:09:04 -0000

As always some people will take advantage of a downturn. The problem is you only know afterward what you should have been doing.

Re: How start-ups can navigate through the falling dominoes of the economic crisis

Engago team — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:51:48 -0000

Will you encounter The Perfect Storm or the Great Opportunities in sales?
http://bit.ly/2jra6s
You better rely upon having paying customers than waiting until the VC asks his money back.

Re: Google relaunches Blog Search as a less-good version of Google News

Engago team — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:08:06 -0000

Maybe Google will deliver faster and index faster than Technorati.
And less fail whales.
The better Quality of Service will win in the end.

Re: Microsoft embraces the cloud with Amazon’s help

Engago team — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:10:32 -0000

The Empire strikes back again.
As always Microsoft is late to the show (as with Internet browsers), but then they just take the market by surprise.
Wondering if this will happen again?

Re: This year’s IPO market weakest since 1977, and M&As are in the gutter

Engago team — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:26:33 -0000

If a Venture Capitalist can't make money on his current investments (1 out of 10 has to be successful), they will not be able to fund the next one.
Vicious circle.

Flying is easy, landing is hard. Still the world is not falling apart.

Re: So what exactly is the $899 Apple device being unveiled tomorrow?

Engago team — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:35:30 -0000

@Rush - Not at all.
Visit website.

Re: Monetizing social networks: The good, bad and ugly

Engago team — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:48:01 -0000

The best business models on the Internet are commission based.
Social media doesn't involve payments, thus no commission.
If people would pay to get into contact with others, then a commission could be charged. However nobody will pay if your contacts are not high value people.

Re: People losing jobs, losing homes, still buying Macs?

Engago team — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:41:14 -0000

@MG Siegler - Why again about Apple?
People are buying Asus and Acer too - value for money with their mini portables running linux (or XP)

Re: Google proves its search methods aren’t set in stone

Engago team — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:41:40 -0000

Will Google use the Search Wiki for their search results?
If so they will kill themselves as Adsense has no value anymore.
Service companies with hundreds of employees can be hired to promote products and solutions for all keywords.

Suicide is painless.

Re: Ballmer’s email to the troops on Microsoft’s Qi Lu hire

Engago team — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:53:47 -0000

The empire (MSFT) strikes back again.
Watch out Google, Microsoft has declared the war.

Re: CES opening keynote: Steve Ballmer admits, “I am a PC and proud of it!”

Engago team — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:40:02 -0000

The Empire Strikes back again as they did the last 25 years.

Re: Winners of the 2008 Crunchies

Engago team — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:45:35 -0000

Congratulations for the nominees and the winners.
Will this bring revenue for them?

Re: Stop the presses: Google gets another new favicon

Engago team — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:58:23 -0000

Is Google getting nowhere?

Re: Stop the presses: Google gets another new favicon

Engago team — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:20:59 -0000

Google con los colores del Catalunya
http://www.tele2.cat/images/mapas/catalunya.gif

Does Google own Catalunya (Spain)

Re: NYT: Steve Jobs’ health crisis not cancer, but does it even matter?

Engago team — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:12:39 -0000

Getting away from day-to-day operations could be beneficial for Apple.
Steve Jobs can take time to have a broader view on the world and surprise us all in June.

The Apple tribe needs innovation in order to keep following their leader.

Re: Sony Electronics holds a virtual trade show

Engago team — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:29:27 -0000

The Internet is killing the trade shows and the recessions helps.
OR
The search engines killed the trade shows as you search your information online before and during teh buying process. http://bit.ly/2v5S6q

Re: Video game business grows 9 percent in December, up 19 percent for 2008

Engago team — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:31:09 -0000

About a year ago analysts commented that only a few people bought games for the Wii as this market segment was happy with the free game "Play".
That has definitely changed now.

Re: Intel sees steep decline in revenues and net income

Engago team — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:34:22 -0000

People buy netbooks with the Atom processor instead of full sized fully equipped portables requiring a more expensive processor and supporting chips.

Re: The Aussies come to Silicon Valley: Six companies compete for best start-up

Engago team — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:38:23 -0000

Real applications for real markets generating revenue.

Re: Twitter and the iPhone on the scene of the US Airways Hudson River crash

Engago team — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:52:46 -0000

The world has become a village thanks to Twitter.
http://bit.ly/WYzv
News is power.
News is now captured and reported by the people and received by the people who want to know.

Re: Reader poll: Will Obama be good for the tech industry?

Engago team — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:49:18 -0000

Obama at least has brought exposure to new technologies : Internet, Youtube, BlackBerry.
A radical change in command.

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/20/web-too-busy-for-business-during-obama-inauguration/

Engago team — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:52:02 -0000

Yes we can ...
decrease Internet traffic.
That has been proven.
Now let's hope he can increase business, consumerism,...

Re: Q4 venture investing plummets; silver lining in cleantech?

Engago team — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:14:24 -0000

Good luck with cleantech:
There is a German report that explains why wind energy isn't profitable and proofs this with actual numbers based on the many years of experience of Germany.

Re: Personal rapid transit gets another chance at life

Engago team — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:19:33 -0000

Economics change if you get $150/ barrel or $45/barrel.
Abu Dhabi has experienced a serious change in revenue and profit.

Re: Streaming live reality shows: Is the technology ready?

Engago team — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:23:27 -0000

Who cares about technology?

The first question to ask is:
Is the business model ready?

Re: The “secret” behind Hulu in a Super Bowl ad?

Engago team — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:57:56 -0000

How can content be free? Especially premium content?
Starting with free advertising to launch sure helps.
Streaming content cannot be free

Re: A demo of Flower: The most inspired game for the PlayStation 3

Engago team — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:53:59 -0000

This is a tremendous change from the hit-kill-run games.
The Wii has proved there are another markets in games and ThatGameCompany has showed the way for PS 3. Now more people have a reason to buy a PlayStation 3.

Re: Acer dances its way into smartphones. Yes, Acer.

Engago team — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:57:59 -0000

Whatever who was first, the main thing is the landscape of smart phones is changing quickly.
Who will be the best challenger for Nokia and Samsung?
It is not necessary the best phone or service, but the best retail distribution is a very important part.

Re: Video: Jimmy Buffett shows off the new Google Earth

Engago team — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:58:33 -0000

If you ever get lost on the bottom of the ocean, browse on your iPhone to get back to the surface.
Nice, but who will pay for something nice these days?

Re: Netflix movie downloads are a success on Xbox 360

Engago team — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:34:48 -0000

"Now-defunct HD-DVD format instead of Blu-ray"
Convenience is the key to success: obtaining movies online without having to go out for buying a Blu-ray disk in a shop.

Re: Facebook and Twitter: There’s blood everywhere, but no one is dying

Engago team — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:50:54 -0000

The recession (or depresssion) will take care if there is no business model.
If Spielberg can't get funding for his movies, who is going to fund free services?

Re: Using ClickTale’s analytics pays off — really

Engago team — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:54:13 -0000

Wondering if once you have optimized your website and obtained results, will you keep paying for the ClickTale service?

Re: “The Race for a New Game Machine” book chronicles the Sony-Microsoft-IBM love triangle

Engago team — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:07:23 -0000

Must have been a nightmare that the public went to buy Wii instead after all these efforts.

Re: Game review: Flower for the PlayStation 3 breathes life into stale games

Engago team — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:04:54 -0000

Just like the Wii, ThaGameCompany opens a new market with Flowers.
There is a market beyond hit, kill, run and conquer games.

Re: I’m sorry Dave: HAL 9000 finally comes to the iPhone

Engago team — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:25:26 -0000

Are there any serious or useful applications for iPhone?

Re: Outright raises $2M for dead simple finance software

Engago team — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:32:14 -0000

Converting the free users to the premium version could be a problem, as the Free version could be sufficient enough for many.

Re: Is Twitter Unenlightened? No, the Dalai Lama’s account was just fake

Engago team — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:36:07 -0000

Who will be the next fake famous person on Twitter?
Not much more famous left over.

Re: I’m not in the office, just check my Gmail signature

Engago team — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:29:39 -0000

Maybe you don't want your customers to know you are again on a vacation.

Re: Multi-core smartphones! (Not the iPhone, yet)

Engago team — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:26:43 -0000

Thus if you buy an iPhone, then Samsung gets paid too.
Thus who is ruling this mobile market? Nokia or Samsung?

Re: HTC takes a European vacation with the G2. Will we see it stateside?

Engago team — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:34:50 -0000

For Google Android it will be make or break.
If Samsung changes to Palm-Pre, then Android will be a lost battle.

Re: For all the “open” talk, Android Market sure has a lot of rules

Engago team — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:19:10 -0000

No adult content: it seems that adult content is successful on in Europe.

Re: CloudContacts adds camera phone support to put business cards in the cloud

Engago team — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:38:39 -0000

Still a multi-step process:
Take picture for each business card with your mobile phone
Upload the pictures to the PC: cable or MicroSD card (requires manipulation) or Bluetooth (rather slow)
Send the email with many pictures attached (not that easy as it sounds)

Re: YouNoodle scores the buzz on 25,000 startups

Engago team — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:37:22 -0000

Did the test in November 2008 for our LEADSExplorer which gave a valuation of over $10mio.
That would be great!

Re: DEMObeat debuts at DEMO ‘09: Contest for free tickets!

Engago team — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:09:15 -0000

We bring a seamless integration between website (visit data) and CRM and email together for increased productivity of marketing and sales.

Re: Video: Evan Williams explains Twitter on Charlie Rose (or tries to)

Engago team — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:59:41 -0000

SMS (texting) was adopted by the mobile operators in Europe as it didn't cost them much to offer to their customers. No marketing man believed in the 160 char text messages.
Overnight it became the best revenue source for European mobile providers as the costs were low and the revenue high.
SMS is a person to person communication that involves the people and requires immeduate action or response. Thus the mobile operators can bill twice after every initial SMS send.

Twitter is free and is being used by 6mio people
The short messages are broadcasted to their followers.
Only in a few occasions opens a communication.
No monetizing of the messages.

Seems difficult to get any business revenue going with Twitter.

Re: If authorities want your location data, they’re going to have to friend you on Latitude like everyone else

Engago team — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:42:18 -0000

In Europe police uses cell phone location data since long.
They are able to know if you were driving too fast over a longer distance.

Re: Enthusiasts keep pushing Smule’s Ocarina iPhone app to higher numbers

Engago team — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:15:52 -0000

Thus you buy an iPhone in order to blow on it?
Technology has made significant advances since the Fart application for the iPhone.

Just wondering if any of these iPhone applications have a sustainable revenue stream.
Will you still buy "Fart-Smule"-type applications one year from now?

Re: Breaking down DEMO’s social footprint

Engago team — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:12:03 -0000

The main question remains: How much sales will these companies generate thanks to appearing on Demo?

Re: The perfect advertisement on Digg

Engago team — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:16:51 -0000

"Digg users don’t click on ads" They are not Natural Born Clickers.
Digg users are too well educated and experienced to avoid ads.
Thus how will Digg ever make money?

Re: According to Twitter, Watchmen will be huge

Engago team — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:28:02 -0000

Any big-budget movie has to sell worldwide by appealing to a mass audience.
As Twitter users have a very specific demographic and have a tendency for tech and sales & marketing, as a movie production company I would start hoping the movie appeals to a wider public.

Re: iPhone 3.0 event: 30 million sold — now that’s a game platform

Engago team — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:39:21 -0000

Symbian on top - iPhone only 10%

Gartner says the Nokia-owned OS accounted for 47.1 per cent of the sector’s total sales in 4Q08.

Apple continues to redefine the definitions of what a mobile phone operating system, but Symbian remains by far the most popular smartphone OS on the market.

New research from Gartner shows that for the fourth quarter of 2008 Symbian based smartphones accounted for 47.1 per cent of the sector’s total sales, with 17.9m handsets sold.

BlackBerry-owning RIM was next in line with 19.5 per cent (7.4m units), followed by Microsoft Windows Mobile at 12.4 per cent (4.7m units). Apple trailed with a 10.7 per cent market share (4.1m units) and Linux 8.4 per cent (3.2m units).

Re: The world’s most lucrative social network? China’s Tencent beats $1 billion revenue mark

Engago team — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:32:32 -0000

Change of times:
China surpasses the US.

Re: IBM rumored to be in negotiations to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion

Engago team — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:37:57 -0000

@adam hartung: you're quite right
When the world moves to cloud computing, IBM wants to buy another server + operating system vendor.
Why not buy Amazon Web Services, as IBM has already embraced the platform as their solution?

Re: Sun joins clash of the titans in the cloud

Engago team — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:39:20 -0000

Amazon took the market by surprise with their AWS.

Re: Cisco buys Pure Digital for $590M, claims market leadership in video capture

Engago team — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:25:30 -0000

CISCO in consumer business?
That will be challenging for the company.

Re: Salesforce.com lets you answer customer complaints on Twitter

Engago team — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:39:41 -0000

Wondering if all companies would want to see their complaints or problems being exposed on a general available Twitter account.

Re: Madison Logic automates the process of generating sales leads

Engago team — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:19:56 -0000

"The only ad serving platform for lead generation" - Then we wonder what are all the other ad serving platforms for? Just to sponsor websites?

Re: Thanks to Oprah, we can finally stop talking about Twitter

Engago team — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:26:32 -0000

Now Twitter is no longer cool.
What's next?

Work and doing business?

Re: Stock market tanks 2.5 percent. Was recovery a dead-cat bounce?

Engago team — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:34:48 -0000

Every big downturn requires a technology innovation to get out and going again.
No such thing in sight for the moment.
Financial powers in the world will change location, just like it happened after the depression of 1872 due to a mortgage lending boom in Europe: the change from Europe to US.
The real great depression of 1872 (took about 20 years to recover)
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/10/03/ge...
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i08/08b09801.htm

Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

Engago team — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:58:39 -0000

When the world is turning to cloud computing (AWS with S3 and EC2), why buy a server company ("the network is the computer") as a software/data base company?

Is java still so powerful seen the ever increasing number of Ruby on Rails applications (Twitter, 37 Signals, ...)

Oracle has the policy of making you pay for any software.
SUN had the policy of giving away free a lot of software.

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/21/study-finds-file-sharers-buy-ten-times-more-music/

Engago team — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:25:55 -0000

Maybe the revenues of the music industry is declining as the content and quality is lower than ever before.
"Po-Po-Po-Poker face"

Re: Apple’s Tim Cook: Why don’t we make netbooks? Because they suck

Engago team — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:17:43 -0000

According to Apple the market is buying products that suck.
Products that are in demand and suck don't last long.
Netbooks are now in demand since more than one year. Thus probably they don't suck.

Maybe Product Management at Apple sucks as they made a big mistake?

Re: Microsoft earnings see first ever year-over-year drop

Engago team — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:00:06 -0000

Balmer should do what Microsoft has always done: copy what's good then marketing, copy what's good then marketing, ...

Re: “Alley Cat” venture capitalist may shun investing, run for SF mayor

Engago team — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:21:56 -0000

Important world news for local bay area.
Please note the world is slightly bigger.

Re: The great Google exodus continues: Priti Choksi goes to Facebook

Engago team — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:35:38 -0000

Wondering who helped her into such a position at Google, seen her degree at that time BA Marketing.

Re: The great Google exodus continues: Priti Choksi goes to Facebook

Engago team — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:36:22 -0000

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/9/b0

Re: Vodafone blitzes Europe with second Android phone, HTC Magic

Engago team — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:11:52 -0000

"Apple is just killing the market these days with its iPhone " We doubt Apple is making a killing in Europe.

Re: TechCrunch50: $3.5 million x Disingenuous

Engago team — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:32:29 -0000

Why all the fuzz?
Startups should question themselves if being at TechCrunch50 or DEMO will bring customers?

Starting a company can have two purposes:
- A company that wants to be in business needs customers or users.
- A company that wants to sell the company or burn money from others needs exposure to VC's.

The last category read: http://tinyurl.com/58bw2c book by Jon Fisher (who build Bharosa with the purpose of selling the company and sold to Oracle).
http://selectbooks.com/t_strategicent.htm

Re: DEMO: Internet now spreads sexist tweets faster than ever

Engago team — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:24:36 -0000

Maybe women think twice before they start(-up).
Men still want to be macho-entrepreneurs?

Re: Metrics Shmetrics Who Needs All That B2B Leads Analytics?

Engago team — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:17:45 -0000

In B2B you need to know the name of the visiting company and what this company has visited on your website.
Webanalytics aren't the solution
Website visitor identification solutions are required.
Reach your leads early in their buying cycle: when they have visited your website.

Re: Poll results for user acquisition: Viral, SEO, word-of-mouth, or other?

Engago team — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:33:23 -0000

If you want to know who is reading your blog for a B2B company or product, you need to identify every reader by the company name in order to separate residential (B2C) readers from company (B2B) readers.
Within the group of company readers, you have to count those who are from potential customers and those who very unlikely to become a customer.
Thus you will have 3 groups:
- Residential surfers
- Company readers - unlikely to become customer
- Company readers - target group of companies
We do this for our website and found we got a large presence of marketing and SEO companies, so we have to adjust the content of the blog to our market.

In oder to be able to analyze this a web service that identifies your website visitors by company name is required. A web service we provide ...

Re: 11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

Engago team — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:22:11 -0000

Use a title such as "Top 14 power words for email advertising and communications" and get 1,000 visitors in one day.

Re: Startups Launching at TechCrunch50 and DEMO Fall 2008

Engago team — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:48:59 -0000

Look into Alexa of last years' presenting companies and see how little the effect was for most companies.
Or this time:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_detai...
See any surge of interest on Alexa?

Re: http://www.instigatorblog.com/the-art-and-science-of-the-small-exit/2009/02/04/

Engago team — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:06:13 -0000

If the purpose of setting up and funding a company is the EXIT strategy, then the company has started on the wrong intention.
The goal of a company is not the EXIT.

Re: http://www.instigatorblog.com/the-art-and-science-of-the-small-exit/2009/02/04/

Engago team — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:55:58 -0000

@Ben Yoskovitz: You normally start a company because you have a solution to solve a demand of a certain market.
Setting up a company with the sole purpose to get acquired is like setting up a trap.
Moreover if the companies doesn't get acquired, there is no sustainable business: then bankruptcy is the only way out.

Re: The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup metrics

Engago team — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:03:59 -0000

You're quite right: one needs to measure in order to know.
Still metrics about traffic are not leads. One can have traffic that don't convert to leads.
It is leads you need to make sales in B2B.
Get the company names of your website visitors. These "warm" companies you can call.

Re: How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!)

Engago team — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:54:53 -0000

Thanks Andrew for your insight.
We have a website that has decent traffic (Alexa rank #407,000), all generated by content, not by advertising.
We do have people signing up for the free trial, but much less than we expected and what you suggest with your 20% and 10%.
Thus something is missing or should be improved.

Re: Which startup’s collapse will end the Web 2.0 era?

Engago team — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:14:34 -0000

When more and more people get jobless, they might increase their amount of time spend on social websites. Seems great at first, until the advertisers find out they are addressing those who don't have the money to spend on the goods or services advertised.
Then next advertisers will withdraw their advertising even more, leading to even less revenue whereas the number of concurrent users has increased: driving up the operations costs.
Example: If you get fired you will probably spend a lot of time on LinkedIn. However the advertising present could not relate to your problem.

This seems to be a no way out for ad-supported Web 2.0 start-ups (or grown-ups).

Re: 21 Economic Models Explained With Cows

Engago team — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:01:26 -0000

Colonization:
You don't have any cows, but you run a foreign country having cows.
The locals milk their cows for you which you have claimed.
You export the milk and meat to your home country and make $$$ without any effort.

Re: 21 Economic Models Explained With Cows

Engago team — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:52:16 -0000

Thanks for the compliment about the blog.
Just trying to bring content and being a bit entertaining.
We like yours too! It's refreshing.

Re: A Rebels Answer to “VC or Bootstrap?”

Engago team — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:56:42 -0000

Before addressing to a VC, get the business running, get the first customers.
In web services this is more feasible than in the 'real' hardware world, as developing a web service doesn't require inventory of products.

The consulting business has also a low entry hurdle. However the problem with consulting is recurring revenue and finding the next customer. Whereas in web services the revenue is recurring during several months at least.

Re: HOW TO: Measure Online Influence

Engago team — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:49:27 -0000

Great we have several posts rating 7 and even 8 on PostRank.
Why do we rank so low on Technorati?(Authority 14 - ranking 450,000)
Seems different measurement systems.
Of course we prefer PostRank.

Re: Lead Generation 2.0: How Entrepreneurs are Fueling the Next Wave of Innovation in Internet Marketing

Engago team — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:36:52 -0000

Next wave?
Website visitor identification by company name.
If you would know:
- the company names of your visitors without asking.
- know exactly what each company has been looking for on your website
Then you could cold call them (or email)
Get more response as these companies are already interested.

Just Google
"Website visitor identification"

Re: Some Fact’s I Would Like To Share About Live Crunch and Alley Insider

Engago team — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:45:51 -0000

a) It is a free world
b) The quality of your content is the most important.
The better content LiveCrunch has or easier to digest content or less biased, the better it will score in this free world (which is larger than San Francisco).

Maybe now TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb are the "stars" or "leaders of the gang", but that can change in a short time.

Re: Are You Too Online?

Engago team — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:50:39 -0000

One more tool:
Know who is visiting your B2B website by company name.
Most B2B desls start with an Internet search.
Thus better know as soon as possible who is interested in your products or solutions.
Reach them early in their buying process.

Re: 50 Ways to Take Your Blog to the Next Level

Engago team — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:00:40 -0000

Isn't blog reading a form of entertainment?
Thus blogging is entertainment business and then the entertainment rules apply (whatever they are).

Entertain, bring emotion to your audience.

The main problem is to attire the right audience.

Re: Pay Close Attention- Oracle to Buy Sun

Engago team — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:33:27 -0000

In times where cloud computing is emerging and winning the market for applications, a software/data base company buys a server company.

A company that has always charged for any software or service, buys a company that has been giving away software for free since a decade.

We are happy to have taken the decision run our web service on PostgreSQL a long time ago.

Re: Brian Solis’ and Loic Le Meur’s real “PR” secrets

Engago team — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:59:24 -0000

Who is going to read and pick up your PR when you are nobody?
As a start-up you are nobody.

So you can write many PR's and hoping for one to catch on.
Or you can try to leverage on somebody else's "fame":
- becoming good friends with a journalist or blogger
- partnership: where the PR mentions the other company
- participating in a contest - award: the PR of the organizing party carries your company or solution

Or write a controversial PR - where you get a lot of comments on in blogs.

Re: The month of no startups

Engago team — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:08:07 -0000

They can’t talk to the press if they want a shot at being on stage at either of these companies (which does bring PR and venture capital attention).
Question: the PR these events bring, are they being read by potential customers?

No starups anymore of VC's?
Maybe VC's are becoming obsolete?
Species to be extinct?

Why do you need a VC?
Do VC's bring customers?

Re: Companies: has TechCrunch 50 or Demo spurned you?

Engago team — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:20:43 -0000

We found not receiving one single question from TechCrunch50 a bit strange.

Whatever: TechCrunch50 is a business and they have to invite those companies that suits their (business) case.

Re: The expo war over startups

Engago team — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:48:38 -0000

For every startup the main quest is to reach users or customers.
Thus the question is what is the best way to get a potential user or customer attention? Launching at TC50 or DEMO? or Conventional PR?

After the first attention the startups need to sustain the interest. One needs to generate continuously interest.
Thus the launch and press coverage at a startup event is just a first boost. (like getting Digged or StumbledUpon)

During 2005 in the UK there was a Channel4 TV show on 3 start up companies: a ventilated bed, a fitness/diet website and a baby shampoo. They reached their potential customers directly by TV, which is still the best media. Thus they had to coverage by media and direct access to their customers.
Where do these 3 companies stand today? Freshbed seems to do OK. As for the other 2?

The game in Business isn't played at launch, but over time.
(and the world is larger than "The Valley")

Re: The expo war over startups

Engago team — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:06:38 -0000

Maybe this is similar:
Starz In Their Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K72tfYdYROo

They'll be making sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the evening news

And when you're tripping
over your dreams
They'll keep you down by any means
and by the end of the night
you'll be stifling your screams

Now why do you wanna go
and put starz in their eyes?

Re: The expo war over startups

Engago team — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:17:12 -0000

Seth Godin has his own view on launch PR and events:
The myth of launch PR

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/09...

"Here are some brands that had no launch at all: Starbucks, Apple, Nike, Harry Potter, Google, William Morris, The DaVinci Code, Wikipedia, Snapple, Geico, Linux, Firefox and yes, Microsoft. (All got plenty of PR, but after the launch, sometimes a lot later)."

Maybe we all should ignore TechCrunch50 (TC52) and DEMO completely.

Re: Startups: your web site sucks

Engago team — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:54:23 -0000

True:
Any visitor should immediately understand the business of the company.

Still there is a difference in websites for User-acquiring, B2C and B2B.
User-Acquiring (getting the biggest audience possible): the website has to use "gadgets", "gimmicks", "widgets", "video" in order to be splashy/cool for being able to compete with others already in the market.
(YouTube didn't look really cool except for the video's)

B2C websites need to sell the products - thus less fancy - else you can't find the products and you won't buy.

B2B:
a) The website needs to be informative and build trust (Scobleizer falls asleep)
b) B2B companies can address to companies that haven't a high speed Internet connection. Then Flash, video and widgets become a hurdle.
c) The decision makers in B2B are 50+ and they aren't surfing the Internet the whole day. Thus some or many of the metrics Scobleizer demands are in many cases not suited or wanted.

There are probably more reasons why User-Acquiring, B2C and B2B websites needs to be different.

Re: Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups

Engago team — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:14:07 -0000

Although we responded to your inquiry blog post previously: Companies: has TechCrunch 50 or Demo spurned you?
You forgot ours:
Engago Technolgies, London, UK with LEADSExplorer

Re: 2,000 “no’s” a year

Engago team — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:44:10 -0000

"should I take VC at all to build my company?"
It is like getting a lover.
If you run behind the one you want, things will go wrong.
Just get the other one interested in you.

The best is having revenue and profit as a startup company.
Get customers or get enough eyeballs to become profitable.
Then listen to the business proposition a VC has to sell to you.

Re: A tale of two photos on Flickr

Engago team — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:05:20 -0000

If you post your tweets when San Francisco sleeps http://bit.ly/3YbYx3 , you get more hits.
We experimented it several times.
Scobleizer too: he posted on "05:07 AM September 28, 2008 from web"
http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/statuses/937891785
When the famous bloggers are off to sleep, then you have more chance to be heard.

Re: The Scoble Top Tech Blogger/FriendFeed/Social Media List

Engago team — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:10:31 -0000

It would have been a miracle if our blog would have been on the list.

Scoble keep the interesting posts coming.

Re: Anti-depression thinking: what do we do?

Engago team — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:34:38 -0000

TechCrunch after CreditCrunch? http://bit.ly/2KYKVW Doom or innovation drive?
What will it be?

Re: Silicon Valley prepares for financial storm of century

Engago team — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:03:50 -0000

The perfect storm or the perfect opportunity?
What will be heading towards you?
If your company makes money and is without debt, the perfect opportunity is possibly coming.
Whereas if your company has debts and no income the storm could finish the company.

Re: Another business model: subscriptions

Engago team — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:05:07 -0000

Maybe subscriptions is it if you can keep them at a constant rate.
However people require change implying changing rates, then subscription becomes quickly a headdache.

Re: Disruptive Factories

Engago team — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:49:42 -0000

During the recession of 1873 that lasted 20 years in Europe, the financial power and the manufacturing powers shifted to the west: from Europe to US.

During the recession of 1929, nothing really changed as it was a recession due to overproduction by the US.

During the recession of 2008 that lasted .. years, the financial and production power shifted to the west from US to China and Korea.
Just like between 1900-1920 in the US (FORD model), the workers in China obtained higher salaries allowing to open the internal market of China to their own products.

Next China got competition from Vietnam, Cambodja and Pakistan supplying low cost and low quality products.

Re: Why I love the US auto industry

Engago team — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:33:28 -0000

In 1873 the long crisis (20 years) was mainly due to two events:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnderkrach
- Europeans had been building houses on crappy loans
- The US was invading Europe with low priced farmer products in large quantities
Resulted in the collapse of the Vienna stock exchange.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

The change this implemented:
- The financial power changed from Europe to US
- The industrial power also went to US - bye bye UK.
- Up to that time almost all technologies were invented in Europe, then slowly the US became the leading innovator

Over the years the US people became rich enough to become the world leading consumer market. Think Ford.

In 2008:
- Houses build on crappy loans
- China had invaded the world with their products at low prices in large quantities.

China has a large internal market potential. If they succeed in getting their population wealthy enough, China will become the largest consumer market. India maybe the second largest?

Compared to 1873, communications are now instantly instead of days and weeks. Thus the crisis and recession won't probably last 20 years.

As for US cars:
- Adapt new technologies in production
- Adjust to change indemand
- Change concepts
- Copy European car manufacturers as they have survived even with unions and high labor prices.

Re: Mike Arrington is wrong about Google search

Engago team — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:30:21 -0000

If Google starts using the data from the Wiki Searches, then they kill their own business of Adsense.
A company would just needs to hire a service that employs hundreds of people (India) to promote all of the pages in searches.

"that suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please."

Re: Nokia’s touchiest week

Engago team — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:07:11 -0000

Scoble: Samsung is #2 after Nokia in sales.
- Apple and RIM are still small players compared to Nokia and Samsung.
- Samsung controls the complete production process from chip to phone
- Samsung is available in all retail stores, just like Nokia (not distributing through a provider)

Samsung is the one to watch out for (they supply also the components for HTC phones).

Re: Nokia’s touchiest week

Engago team — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:41:38 -0000

Microsoft has showed many times you don't need to be the first on the market.
Microsoft has showed many times their presence in retail stores is decisive.

Nokia can be late in the market, but their brand and presence is important.
Nokia and Samsung are present in all the retail stores in Europe and Asia (Nokia not in Japan).

Re: Nokia N97: the ultimate Facebook device

Engago team — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:18:29 -0000

Nokia has worldwide distribution in every consumer electronics retail shop.
Apple not exactly.
That will make a difference.

Re: Steve Jobs sleeps like baby after Nokia World

Engago team — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:48:40 -0000

@Scobleizer: good that you travel, then you know what's outside Silicon Valley (the world is bigger)

@Andrian Sutton: Prepaid will be too expensive for 3G/Internet people.

@Bob Beela - Completely agree.
Nokia and Samsung are present in the retail shops worldwide.
iPhone is a US product for the US market with a US business model.

I think the main threat for Nokia is Samsung - not Apple iPhone.
Samsung has the complete food chain: form chip manufacturing to phones to retail distribution into almost all the shops of the world.

Of course Nokia is eager to have a succes like "iTunes" too.
But Nokia is Microsoft for mobiles: Microsoft are always the second and then they take the market. Nokia was late on certain types, but they still are number one.

@Scobleizer: start looking and investigating what Samsung is developing and bringing to the market. Is Korea becoming the new Silicon Valley?
Touchless LCD http://bit.ly/Dwgi

Re: Why blogging comments suck

Engago team — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:41:25 -0000

Posting comments is more effective than setting up and running a blog.
No need for marketing and lots of content.
14 reasons: http://bit.ly/u8y2

Re: Tumblr’s CEO brainstorms microblog monetization

Engago team — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:53:18 -0000

Twitter is a platform for other applications.
Thus the revenue of the applications should pay a license fee to Twitter.

Re: It’s time for the geeks to sit down and shut up

Engago team — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:42:21 -0000

Twitter having less than 2mio users is probably also still Geeky.
The mass market hasn't discovered Twitter yet.

Services that are not geeky are YouTube, Google and SMS (texting).

Scrapplet is Geeky but a bit more complicated than Twitter.

Re: The world-wide-talk-show host: Loic Le Meur

Engago team — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:16:23 -0000

This is a story about Loic. And these are his businesses: Seesmic, LeWeb
And this is SOAP.
...
Will Loic build a useful solution?
Will Loic grow a sustainable business?
Confused?
You will be after you watch next week's episode of Soap.

Re: Amazon Web Services from the view of a customer

Engago team — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:37:28 -0000

Amazon S3 EC2 is the first mover.
If they can hold the place by good service, then they will become the leader for a long time.

Re: The best 2009 web development tool?

Engago team — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:41:49 -0000

Very impressive.
When will Microsoft buy Aptana?

Re: 30 minutes at 12seconds.tv shows future of “reality based” tech startups

Engago team — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:15:57 -0000

We are a new “reality based” tech startup.

Of course we can use all possible interest.

Re: Mike and Loic are wrong about Twitter search

Engago team — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:22:00 -0000

All people are equal - equally important.
As Scobleizer proposes there are other possible metrics than the number of followers.

Re: The best gadget I stole in 2008

Engago team — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:27:15 -0000

Use a Canon FS 100 for a few dollars more.
And get the best stabilizer: comparison in car on YouTube
http://tinyurl.com/8p49oq

Re: Palm did what Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft couldn’t: build a better experience than Apple

Engago team — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:03:46 -0000

In retail there are several factors that influence a buying decision:
- pricing(high price: "then it must be great" - low pricing: "value for money")
- branding for trust
- looks (can you show off with the device)
- function & features (people only use 10% of all features and functions)
- Availability

Will Palm be able to bring all of these?
Will Palm find enough developers with the right applications?
Will palm be able to have their device in all retail stores?
Will Palm ...

Re: If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network

Engago team — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:46:57 -0000

Focus:
There is so much information on the Internet that searches need to understand what you are about.

Consistent:
Keep your story (subject) consistent on the Internet.

Industries:
Look into industries that will grow during the recession: http://bit.ly/dtBq

Remarkable:
If possible be a little bit remarkable, but not too much as it will scare off your potential boss.

Sell:
You are in Sales now: selling yourself is the hardest thing to do.

Re: Plane crash in NYC captured on real-time web

Engago team — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:50:35 -0000

The world has become a village thanks to Twitter. http://bit.ly/WYzv
News was power for those who could obtain the news.
News was distributed by controlled sources.
Now news is reported and distributed by the people.
All people who want can receive all news.
The news power is no longer defined by the money you can invest for obtaining news.

Re: Welcome to Black January: Microsoft, Intel, IBM and others lay off tons

Engago team — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:49:38 -0000

Before you can create companies, a country needs to have and define demands.
Demands by the consumer.
Demands by companies or industries.

That's why Obama will start large public and infrastructure works.
Just like Hoover did.

So Scoble do you have a demand?
If so, then see if there are other people with the same demand.

Re: Facebook screws iFart author

Engago team — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:57:05 -0000

Forget about Facebook.
Go Netlog www.netlog.com (35mio users)

Re: A Tale of Four Venture Backed Companies

Engago team — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:03:20 -0000

Some VC's are still alive and kicking, as we received an inquiry yesterday from OpenView Venture Partners (Boston MA).

Maybe because we aren't looking for a VC.
It's like if you are eager to get something, you don't get it.

Re: The real problem with Davos: not enough focus on small business

Engago team — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:41:37 -0000

In a small business people are more involved, and should be more productive. And al the small or micro business owners aren't counted amongst the unemployed, even if they hardly make enough money to live.

Not short-cuts, but time is the only way out of this recession/depression.
It took 20 years to recover after the 1873 recession in Europe partially caused by faulty loans for building great buildings and houses.

This recession/depression means also a change in powers: in 1873 the power went from Europe to the USA.
No clue where the power will be after this.

Re: Is the real-time web a threat to Google search?

Engago team — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:53:09 -0000

Google is the past.
Twitter and Friendfeed are the current.

If Google doesn't catch up, it will be history.

Re: Twitter Client War: Twhirl vs. TweetDeck

Engago team — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:45:29 -0000

Aren't downloadsoftwares OUT?
In any case a download is a hurdle in deployment.

Re: What’s the best new productivity tool you’ve adopted in past year?

Engago team — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:14:18 -0000

No more money into stocks.
On the savings account money actually makes more money. That's productive.

Re: User data ownership on Facebook and why it doesn’t matter

Engago team — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:47:16 -0000

Free Use rhymes with Free Content.
Pay Use rhymes with Proprietary Content.

Get a paid service and sleep well.

Re: Robert and Rocky ride again at Rackspace

Engago team — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:02:35 -0000

Building 43 is a community - what's the business model? Or is the purpose to promote RackSpace?
Maybe RackSpace needs Scoble more than Scoble needs RackSpace.
Amazon Web Services is the challenger in the market.

All the best with your new venture.

Re: How to reach “normal” users with PR and with TechCrunch/GigaOm et al

Engago team — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:48:00 -0000

Maybe there are no rules and methods in PR as used to be 20 years ago when a PR supported by an advertising campaign could launch any product.

Just luck and persistence will generate the interest one day.
Getting interest from geeks to getting interest from journalists to getting 'normal' users actually using your solution is a long way with plenty of hurdles.

Re: How can we help you build your business?

Engago team — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:51:38 -0000

Amazon Web Services S3 and EC2 stole the market from RackSpace. RackSpace has surely a lot of catching up to do (as well as the competitors: Google, EMC, Oracle , Microsoft, ...)

Re: Watch the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates TV Ad - Boring or Brilliant?

Engago team — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:53:54 -0000

Boring.
A good advertising video doesn't need a (locally) famous actor and the Boss of the company (more famous than the overpaid actor).
It is all about the idea, the emotion that is generated by watching the video.
In this case: no emotion.

Moreover the language used is not suited for international markets. 90% of the world population who do understand English will have problems with the words spoken.

Bill Gates is to stiff to wiggle (at the end of the video).

Want to see a series of good B2B video's with emotion? http://tinyurl.com/6eu2rb

Re: Watch the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates TV Ad - Boring or Brilliant?

Engago team — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:02:54 -0000

Jamison Framinson: I hope you refer to the "Clothes of the King" parable?
Where the staff of the king says the new clothes look great, except he isn't wearing any and the people just see a naked King.

The staff of Bill Gates should have stopped him.

$300mio
- That's a lot of upgrades MSFT needs to sell
- That's enough money to get questions from MSFT share holders.

Re: Facebook Headed for Financial Ruin?

Engago team — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:48:14 -0000

The over-valuation could kill Facebook as managers and employees are used to spending.

Obtaining more funding will not solve the problem as spending has become part of the culture of the company.

Re: Google Kills the Radio Star

Engago team — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:54:13 -0000

Maybe Google is just cueless.
It is very difficult for any company to find a new hit.
Only a few companies have re-invented themselves:
Apple, IBM, HP, Samsung, GE, ...
If Google wants to be amongst the big players they need to proof their changeability.

Re: The Importance of Good Follow-Up

Engago team — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:44:03 -0000

If you can discover your leads visiting your website, it will remind you to call them.
In most cases after a first contact, the really interested parties will visit your website. Time to call or email.

Re: New Tool Ensures That Online-Marketing Campaigns Actually Deliver

Engago team — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:00:48 -0000

As an alternative for knowing who visits your website by company name, their Internet origin, location, language and their interest consider LEADSExplorer for both lead generation and customer retention while improving your nurturing too as you know their reactions upon your communicatins.

Re: Steve Jobs is going after the game market

Engago team — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:06:48 -0000

Steve Jobs - looking like Ghandi - is going into games: back to his Ping-Pong roots?
Microsoft has proved games is not an easy game to win.

Re: Apple’s $400 iPod Touch lacks a camera — rumors claim technical problems

Engago team — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:13:35 -0000

You can get a Netbook with camera and keyboard for a lower price.
The price of a product is what the fool wants to pay for it.

Re: Steve Jobs takes the stage at Apple event with update on iPhone

Engago team — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:16:54 -0000

Steve - looking like Ghandi - promoting a Genius selling tool.

Re: Amazon SimpleDB a complete flop?

Engago team — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:01:27 -0000

We use AWS EC2 and S3 with PostgreSQL.
Why because we know PostgreSQL and its' reliability.
Why bother about and take a risk with SimpleDB as you have PostgreSQL?

@Terry Jones - Good luck with FluidInfo.

Re: The “Gist” of a New Sales Tool

Engago team — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:16:49 -0000

If you upload your contacts, then Gist is able to re-use these contacts to spread their awareness further (send email).
www.Spoke.com did the same thing.

Re: 41 Internet Marketing Tactics – Take the Poll

Engago team — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:28:34 -0000

What can be done in B2B without spending money:
- SEO is obvious, but that is a continuous process
- Blogging: Ok but difficult to draw the right audience in B2B
- Social networking - more difficult for B2B
- E-mail marketing: in case you don't have lists, it costs money.
- Micro blogging: short interesting content. However in many cases the content is a link to your last blog post. And those on Twitter are not your B2B customers.
- Link bait: there is little chance to get link bait going on a B2B subject
- Free content: the more content the higher the chance people will find your company.

All in all: it is mainly pulling people to your company or product website.
Thus you need to identify the website visitors by company name. As only 2-3% completes a form online, you need other tools.

Re: SEO Basics: Are Directory Submissions Still Worthwhile?

Engago team — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:57:13 -0000

Our experience with our B2B website is: hardly any visits from directories.
We track every individual visitor as this is our service.

Re: The Yin Yang of PR and SEO

Engago team — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:24:59 -0000

It is like a vortex: all the separate communication channels will work together at one point in time.
Creating a much bigger force/stream than the sum of each of them.

Re: Visualizing Blog Analytics

Engago team — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:56:42 -0000

Besides all the data: Could knowing the company names of the visitors come handy for lead generation in B2B?

Re: Is Facebook speeding up while Twitter slows?

Engago team — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:17:52 -0000

After Oprah there is nothing more popular.
So Twitter is stuck.

Re: What does ACS do, the 100-word version

Engago team — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:54:08 -0000

In 3 words:
Government related business

Re: Yahoo’s new “You” ad: If you don’t cry a little, you have no soul

Engago team — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:37:23 -0000

Congrats for the international approach.
Yahoo! is aware of football (soccer) being the most popular sport in the world.

Re: The acquisition days are back as Cisco picks up Norwegian firm for $3 billion

Engago team — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:14:50 -0000

How will Cisco ever going to get the $3billion back?
That requires a lot of sales as this acquisition only enhances the existing business.

Re: Larry Ellison’s annual cloud-computing smackdown

Engago team — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:11:38 -0000

The Cloud is a threat for Oracle as there will be less Oracle data base: one cloud provider will have only one maintenance contract to their many customers. IF the could provider chooses Oracle - chances are PostgreSQL might just be selected over Oracle.

Ellison probably knows he has lost the cloud battle already to AWS.

Re: Doomsayers Turn To Online Ads; Space Is Still Resilient, But Affiliate Deals Could Help

Engago team — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:58:49 -0000

Print media cannot compete with online media because of the missing accountability. http://tinyurl.com/65okff

Re: Getting Bigger on a Budget: Look to Low-Cost Office Solutions for Profitable Growth

Engago team — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:51:10 -0000

Regus is very practical and convenient if you want to expand in other geographies, but it is not a low-budget solution. It is low-budget if your business is not successful in the new geography as closing down costs less.

Re: WhoDoYouKnowAt: A more exclusive, private LinkedIn

Engago team — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:17:16 -0000

Too difficult registration: 3 security questions ! and wrong password characteristics.

Re: YouTube now serves more than 1 billion money-losing views per day

Engago team — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:11:39 -0000

Thus the business model is give away for free something that is expensive and then get acquired.
Why not give away gold for free and get millions of addresses of people where you have send the gold to.
Then hope someone buys the company for the millions of addresses.

Re: From CTIA: The rise of open mobile (and congratulations Android team)

Engago team — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:18:53 -0000

Explosion of mobile advertising ?
More like the implosion of mobile advertising.
The iPhone is not the entire mobile world. It's a niche market.
Please note the world is slightly bigger than SF Bay Area.

Concerning Android:
There are 3 players on the market:
http://gigaom.c...et-share-in-q2/

Nokia:36% unlikely to use Android
Samsung: 19% potential for Android
LG: 10% potential user of Android

Totals: 65%
The rest (all manufacturers) with 35% market share have no significant impact on the market (including the iPhone).

Re: A busy week for real-time search — here’s a list to keep tabs

Engago team — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:12:55 -0000

Real-time on your own website: know the company names of your website visitors for lead generation and customer retention. http://bit.ly/JheyL

Re: Chevy Volt poised to resuscitate dying automotive town Flint, Mich.

Engago team — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:39:37 -0000

Who will buy these cars?
Is there a market?
10,000 cars by GM alone.
The cars can be running ecologically, but producing electricity is not in many cases and disposing the batteries afterward is not ecological.

Re: Twitter pushes into the developing world with Airtel deal

Engago team — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:59:50 -0000

The future of technology is in Asia: mass adoptation will happen there.
This Twitter deal is just the top of the iceberg.

Re: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Technology, not policy, will save the world

Engago team — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:29:37 -0000

It's a fairy tale for keeping the crowds quiet.
Technology will not save you all.
It will for a few people, but not the masses.
Moreover the mass markets are now in Asia: that's where new technology will be tested on success or fail.

Re: Get out of my company!

Engago team — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:35:42 -0000

The problem with marketing is they never see a customer (except the accidental ones on a trade show) and they live with spreadsheets and statistics whereas the salesman meets people and hears about problems, challenges and solutions.

Re: Nuclear power: Wave of the past or future?

Engago team — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:57:05 -0000

Those who are in control of the energy source rules.
Seems the French are winning as they have kept on developing nuclear power.

So you all go and drive electric cars (thanks to Obama) powered by French nuclear power.
The French gave the Statue of Liberty after all.

Re: Siemens closer to wind dominance with $900M in turbine contracts

Engago team — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:02:29 -0000

The Germans have been developing green energy since more than 15 years.
They have 15 years advantage over other countries.