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A Must Watch for Product Designers and Founders

Blog on March 1st, 2010 0 Comments

There is so much game theory in product design. Here is a terrific, yet slightly disturbing, journey through our game-packed world.

DS Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5
As difficult as it may seem, you need to know this if you make consumer web products. Especially if you want to make revenue.
My question to [...]

A One Site Strategic Plan

Blog on February 17th, 2010 0 Comments

We’re at Growth Summit this week and thought it would be useful to share one of our most valuable tools: Pollenizer’s Site Page Strategic Plan Template
We are big fans of Verne Harnish and the Rockefeller Habits. One of his most powerful contributions to our business has been the idea of a one page strategic plan to [...]

Australia’s Once-In-A-Century Opportunity is Slipping Away

Blog on February 11th, 2010 0 Comments

Australia struggles to innovate. I know this is not caused by a lack of ideas or a lack of vision because I live in a world of Australian entrepreneurs. Indeed, what this community gets done, against all odds, is extraordinary.
The National Broadband Network in Australia is an opportunity to throw the genius, energy and passion [...]

[Sneak Peak] Groovy New Booking Angel Tools

Blog on February 10th, 2010 0 Comments

We have been working with Dean McEvoy and the Booking Angel team to create some new tools for affiliate restaurant sites to integrate Booking Angel simply by dropping Javascript code into their site.
For those of you that don’t know Booking Angel, the business solves a strikingly large problem with online booking.  Whilst consumers use the [...]

The Wonderful World of Limitation

Blog on February 5th, 2010 0 Comments

Starting a business is hard. By far, the hardest part, is delivery. When we first started Pollenizer a couple of years ago we followed the Google idea of 20% time in which we would dedicate approximately 1 day per week each to internal projects. We tried to launch a small product called Goalsy like that:

Goalsy [...]

Everything You Wanted to Know About Pollenizer

Blog on February 1st, 2010 0 Comments

I was interviewed by the Terence at Board Room Radio for their Commsec Entrepreneur Series just before Christmas. I had a great time at their office chatting with the team. Board Room Radio itself is a super interesting business that has managed to thrive in a competitive marketplace by being highly focused on delivering high [...]

[Primer] Hyper-Productivity Through Scrum

Blog on January 26th, 2010 0 Comments

This week, Bruno has flown into Barcelona with a team of scrum ninjas to work with Very Large Telephone Company, to implement Scrum across the company over a three month process. At Pollenizer, we are known for the agile way that we work. We are, shall we say,  fanatical about Scrum in our engineering teams [...]

Shawn and Jordon Talk Posse

Blog, portfolio on January 12th, 2010 0 Comments

The Pollenizer team has been working its bum off on Posse for the past year and we are really chuffed about its explosive growth. This time last year we were just starting work and now we are live in 3 countries (AU, UK, US) with 6 ticketing platforms and over 700 artists have promoted over [...]

Do you know what your site

How to Measure a Working Viral Loop

Blog, Promoted, Web Strategy on January 11th, 2010 0 Comments

How do you measure success in your web business? Do you have a model to test actual numbers against each month? Are you are investing in the right places? Are the changes you are making to your site creating more business activity – whatever that is for you?
Too frequently there is a simple measure like [...]

Its been a big year

The Year That Was 2009

Blog, Promoted on December 7th, 2009 0 Comments

It’s been a big year at the Pollenizer hive and we wanted to celebrate it with a book, beautifully crafted by our friends at Blurb.

We’re now a team of 60 people, operating across 8 countries who have helped over 60 web businesses to grow.

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