[SiliconBeach] Re: Potential Customer - Multi-channel approach (Seeking Recommendation)

2014-05-22 Thread Ali S
Thanks everyone for all your suggests, I found them very helpful and I already started to put them in practice Will keep you posted, when something magical happens Cheers Ali On Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:17:17 PM UTC+10, Ali S wrote: > > Good day Gents! > > > > I am trying to reach a potent

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: chip and pin?

2014-05-22 Thread Craig Stump
In Australia yes, but not in the US and many other parts of the world. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Yuval Ararat wrote: > One thing missing with both solution is the chip. > Most cards these days are not even swiped but read from the chip. the > magnetic stripe will be gone soon too.. > Yu

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: chip and pin?

2014-05-22 Thread Yuval Ararat
One thing missing with both solution is the chip. Most cards these days are not even swiped but read from the chip. the magnetic stripe will be gone soon too.. Yuval On 23 May 2014 10:26, Craig Stump wrote: > Australian-issued card transactions will only be able to be authorised via > a PIN (un

RE: [SiliconBeach] GRIFFIN accelerator - mentor driven - still time to apply

2014-05-22 Thread Dean Collins
If they are only picking mentors who live in Canberra……then there is the first problem, in this age of technology geography isn’t an impediment. Cheers, Dean From: Mark Burch (InvoiceSmash) [mailto:m...@invoicesmash.net] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 7:48 PM To: Dean Collins Subject: RE: [Silic

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: chip and pin?

2014-05-22 Thread Craig Stump
Australian-issued card transactions will only be able to be authorised via a PIN (unless you use contactless for under $100). Overseas cards can still sign (i.e. the mag reader on POS terminals will stay, but only work for OS cards). A firmware update will be pushed to POS terminals, and the termin

Re: [SiliconBeach] Coupon effectiveness - any personal feedback

2014-05-22 Thread Scott Yang
Michael, Can't speak for other coupon or deal websites, but at least for OzBargain the demographic would be people who are *cheap* in the way that they wouldn't spend the moolah if there's a free equivalent that does 75% of the task -- at least in a niche like automated website testing. Yes you mi

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: chip and pin?

2014-05-22 Thread Andrew Quan
Hi all I was project managing the chip and pin migration last year before heading off to study overseas. If you need to ask me specific technical questions about the EMV Chip and PIN migration in Australia, don't hesitate to yell. *Q: What happens with international cards?* *A: *The PIN mandate s

RE: [SiliconBeach] GRIFFIN accelerator - mentor driven - still time to apply

2014-05-22 Thread Dean Collins
Craig, If you accept my supposition that it takes all types to “launch and propel a company” then you’ll accept that there are a number of skillsets required as mentors. You seem to be overweight senior mentors – a lot of the USA based accelerators also have junior “coal face” mentors people w

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: chip and pin?

2014-05-22 Thread Dean Collins
Hi Craig, Whats the situation for visitors from other countries etc with older mag stripe style cards? Will their cards still be accepted for a certain period and chip and pin readers are mandatory for all retailers to have + banks can only issue new chip and pin for replacement cards/customers

[SiliconBeach] Re: Advertising network recommendations

2014-05-22 Thread mich...@testize.com
Hello, we have tried stumbleUpon Paid Discovery, and found it ineffective. The idea that people just pin and like your content, but they hardly visit your site We run campaign for 2 days and spent $30 - got about 500 "stumbles", 18 likes and 2 visitors that made some site action, 0 paid users.

[SiliconBeach] Coupon effectiveness - any personal feedback

2014-05-22 Thread mich...@testize.com
Hi, has anybody tried to advertise their services and providing discounts through different coupon networks (like ozbargain and others) Have you found it effective? What networks was the most effective for your to get paid users? Just exploring new channels and wonder if anybody could share the

[SiliconBeach] Re: chip and pin?

2014-05-22 Thread Craig Stump
1st Aug this year, chip & pin only here in AU. EMV is the standard - not sure why Wocket isn't using that? Looks like a bulky version of Coin (https://onlycoin.com/ - also only magstripe at this stage - v2 should be EMV) On Thursday, 22 May 2014 01:52:04 UTC+10, Dean Collins wrote: > > Hi Sarah