Pierre SauvignonThis article was initially published on the Pollenizer Blog in April 2013 I’m obsessed with problems. When I hear someone complain about something I can’t help but to think about a solution, a “better way”. Needless to say that our recent move to France provided a whole new level of exposure to “problems” since complaining about [...]
What is most likely to be the seed for a successful web business? Most would probably say an idea or a great team. Vijay Anand thinks not and argues that what really matters is to start by finding noticeable pain points that a sizeable audience would pay to see removed. Here is what it looks [...]
At FlikGift we decided to run an experiment on the Google Chrome platform. The question we asked ourselves was: Can we make the default Chrome new tab window at least 10 times better by displaying beautiful birthday reminders with some FlikGift magic? For those of you not familiar with the Chrome platform, The Chrome browser [...]
We’ve already got 50 registrations and we’ve caped the event at 80 so if you haven’t got one already make sure you grab your ticket now! As we are getting closer to the event, and to answer some feedback we’ve received, we’ve decided to give all participants more clarity around the terms of the Pollenizer [...]
Sensis and Pollenizer have partnered to offer you a 2 day hackathon with over $50,000 worth of prizes and perks. On Saturday March 24 all the idea generators, code masters and design maestros come together to brainstorm. Ideas are sparked, teams are formed, products are scoped, and it all culminates in a series of pitches [...]
There is quite a lot to learn from spammers when it comes to landing pages. Check this one out: http://paleorecipebook.com/ The structure goes as follows: #1 Hook #2 Value (bullet points) #3 More value (details) #4 WOW! BONUS! #5 OMG! More bonuses. #6 Did I mention bonuses? #7 Reviews #8 More reviews. All these ppl [...]
At any point in time there are at least 6 web businesses being incepted, tested, built or grown within our walls. That is: – 6 backlogs – Dozens of tasks created daily – Dozens of tasks closed daily When a task is created, how do we know that it is ready to be put in [...]
Hi! My name is Pierre, and I’m a domain junky. I own close to a hundred domain names and I haven’t bought one in over a week! *cue for clapping* Finding a good domain name is a real challenge. You’ll need a lot of creative juice to come up with something that domain squatters haven’t [...]
I was recently travelling in Europe and as I was waiting for my Nice to Dubai flight to board I noticed the following billboard ad: Thoughts in my mind went as follow: 1. I wish I was the target audience ;) 2. What a great focus! 3. Wait a minute… 4. lol, @mick would love [...]
