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 [...]
The Pollenizer team is constantly exposed to a flux of new entrepreneurs with web-businesses ideas. This stream comes to us either via our Bootcamp sessions, Pitches rounds, Investors network or more broadly via the various social media tools our antennae can reach. This is awesome! Seeing so much entrepreneurial energy in the Australian web industry [...]
Sometime ago I wrote a blog post advertising a Project/Product manager position open at Pollenizer. I received a flood of applications, some good ones, some bad ones as you can expect. Today I received a nice email from James Goldie with this video attached: Now that’s what I’m talking about! Needless to say that we [...]
Photo Credits: BenJTsunami – See original here. From time to time one of our portfolio companies gets to be featured on a prime time TV show (A Current Affair, Today Tonight…). This has obvious benefits for the business in terms of publicity, but it comes at a price for the poor servers that have to [...]
Pollenizer is looking to hire a Junior / Mid-weight Project/Product Manager. Woohoo! Is that person you? See below. The lucky winner will have to do stuff like: Spend half of his/her day in Jira and/or wire framing cool products Spend the other half in meetings and Skype calls / chats Spend the third half doing [...]
What do you think 2010 will bring for the Internet industry? A few of us at Pollenizer put our two cents in. We’d love to hear what you think the future holds too!
Photo by Richard Giles – See on Flickr World-renowned for its buzzing nightlife, dazzling ice sculptures, and exotic street fair*, now the City of Perth can add one more line to its list of solid attractions – The Edge of the Web conference. Take a couple of hundred international geeks, add several dozen speakers, re-searchers [...]
