[SiliconBeach] Introduction

2011-05-25 Thread Vamsi Gullapalli
I'll be joining the meetup group this Friday for the first time so I wanted to intro myself here as well. Economics student by day and web developer by night , now that my contract job is tapering off thought it best it to fill the time with projects I find useful. Low risk, low effort, low

[SiliconBeach] Re: Introduction

2011-05-25 Thread Matthew Ho
I actually think stocktrap is the better idea. Simple idea and I reckon people would pay for it. Its like GroupMe meets stocks announcements. I'd be interested to see whether you could build it as a web app/ native app and use push notifications. The thing I like about SMS is that you will

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re-intro: Now at Airbnb Native Tongue

2011-05-25 Thread Brendan Quinn
Congratulations Matt! That sounds like a fun role, best of luck with it and remember us SBers when you're rich after the AirBnB IPO next year ;-) Brendan. On 23 May 2011 20:31, Matthew Ho matt.h...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently joined Airbnb. I'm their first Australian based hire. I'll be

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re-intro: Now at Airbnb Native Tongue

2011-05-25 Thread Ormagord
Nice work, Matt. I am a big fan of Airbnb. Living in Italy and travel a bit to the UK where we book our stuff through the service. I was checking out Melbourne properties in the beginning to see what it was all about. Cracked me up that one of the top-rated places sounded absolutely great. It was

[SiliconBeach] Re: What do you spend on accounting?

2011-05-25 Thread Nick Karrasch
Thanks all for your input and recommendations, they have been very helpful. Nick On May 24, 12:43 pm, Mark Burch m...@markburch.net wrote: I highly recommend Roy Deymos (0412 903 099). They're a small start-up accounting firm. They get IT. They get entrepreneurs.   Give Roy a call to see

[SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread doogirl
Hi all, Let me introduce myself, my name is Olivia, I am totally new to SB. I am about to embark in possibly the scariest and most exciting thing I have ever done. I am starting an online business (retail), it's still early days for me. I have had this niggiling idea for years and decided to

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re-intro: Now at Airbnb Native Tongue

2011-05-25 Thread Bec Coleman
Hi second the TripIt suggestion. I'm a big fan of Tripit and Airbnb. Keep up the great work! Thanks Bec On 25/05/2011, at 9:00 PM, Ormagord wrote: Nice work, Matt. I am a big fan of Airbnb. Living in Italy and travel a bit to the UK where we book our stuff through the service. I was

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Mathew French
Get Your SEO Right. Learn about CPC advertising and how you can reduce your cost through have good web and good content. Get a Blog up and Running. I am not technical but am OK at Writing and we are getting good exposure through key words from our blog. Word Press is optimised well out of the

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread James Hilton
Depends on what you're selling, Olivia... On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:19 PM, doogirl oliviamel...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, Let me introduce myself, my name is Olivia, I am totally new to SB. I am about to embark in possibly the scariest and most exciting thing I have ever done. I am

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Beck Rands
Hi Matthew All the stuff you say here is good and I had not heard of Vertical Response so thanks for that. I just need to ask about purchased lists here. The reason being I did some marketing for a friends' business a few weeks ago who had very little idea about the internet and marketing. So

[SiliconBeach] Re: Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Jeromy Evans
Hi Beck, Mailchimp seems to be more vigilant than other providers in minimising the risk of spam from their system. It's in their terms of service each addressees must opt-in; as you import a list it says this explicitly you can't use a purchased list (for example). Other providers however put

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Beck Rands
Thanks Jeromy that is interesting. When you say partners list does that mean your associate markets your business to their email list? Beck On 26/05/2011, at 11:08 AM, Jeromy Evans jeromy.ev...@blueskyminds.com.au wrote: Hi Beck, Mailchimp seems to be more vigilant than other providers

[SiliconBeach] Re: Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Jeromy Evans
On May 26, 11:43 am, Beck Rands beckra...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Jeromy that is interesting. When you say partners list does that mean your associate markets your business to their email list? Exactly. If it's complimentary/value-add/you've paid enough/right timing to justify them emailing

[SiliconBeach] New member

2011-05-25 Thread Dave Cox
Hi guys, I've recently joined your group and I am looking forward to the next meet-up. I have recent experience developing and working with an international, cutting-edge mobile marketing and mCommerce platform - telco (prepaid) and financial services product, including international money

[SiliconBeach] ADV: IBM to launch Global Entrepreneur Program on June 14th

2011-05-25 Thread drllau
http://www-304.ibm.com/isv/startup IBM is looking for early stage IT-startups with solutions that address the issues enterprise customers are facing in the areas of banking, buildings, cities, cloud computing, education, energy, food, government, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, oil,

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Mathew French
Hi Bec. Yes, I have come accross that with Mail Chimp and Also VR. When you set your website up, make sure you have facilities on your site to capture e-mail, as well as options to sign in for News. This is what they will look at when authorising your account. In terms of Mailing list, it is a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Marketing my start up

2011-05-25 Thread Beck Rands
wow! thanks Mat, that is brilliant and helpful, and thanks to Jeromy for piping in too, thats very useful stuff Beck On 26 May 2011 15:01, Mathew French mathew.fre...@subscribe-hr.com.auwrote: Hi Bec. Yes, I have come accross that with Mail Chimp and Also VR. When you set your website up,

[SiliconBeach] Re: Re-intro: Now at Airbnb Native Tongue

2011-05-25 Thread Matthew Ho
Hi Ben Bec, Airbnb used to have Tripit Integration. But now that we have reformatted the confirmations, the TripIt system no longer reads it. I use TripIt as well, so I agree it would be an awesome feature to have! I will check with our team if we will be doing any further work around this.