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New role: Startup Marketing Lead

Pollenizer is seeking someone to lead, drive and grow our great team of startup marketing, customer development and customer acquisition peeps. What the role is; Leading a team of 4 customer development/marketing people as they work their butts off to start new web...

How to find a good domain name

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...

Startups first test: Does anyone care?

Part of what Pollenizer does regularly is to reality check new ideas by just putting them out there. It’s the fastest way to find out if anyone cares and what they think. I copped some flack on Friday for tweeting out a link to a site called Noble Village. This...

Focus: Honestly.com

A quick, good example of a very focused first target micro-segment is Honestly.com “Previously, access to Unvarnished has been limited to invite-only or professionals from a list of roughly 200 pre-approved tech/tech-related companies.” From Techcrunch. By...

Big Day for Spreets

As many of you know, we’ve been helping Spreets get started, so we’re very excited to announce today that Spreets has launched to all Australian capital cities. Read the media release below for more info: Group buying site Spreets receives $2 million...

Facebook: Groups Vs. Pages

By Bree Clare At present there are over 400 million active users of Facebook worldwide, and 50% of those active users log on daily (Facebook Press room). So it’s no surprise that businesses are now using Facebook groups and pages to promote their goods and/or...

Getting ‘the blurb’ on Blurb.com

It’s fun and challenging working with clients in different time zones, so it is good for the relationship when you can catch up in person. Samantha Howe (pictured) from Blurb visited Sydney in March to spend time with the Pollenizer Blurboz team; attend Blurb...

SportsPassion – Case Study

Social media enterprise 3eep experienced the depth and breadth of Pollenizer’s expertise in getting its online community SportsPassion off the ground. From technology strategy and implementation to product and market development, the Pollenizer team played an...

Focus Workshop – April 28, 2010

UPDATE: The March Workshop is sold out, so here is the April Web Focus Workshop registration details. I’m running a Web Business Focus workshop for $80 on March 17. I’ve done more than 35 focus workshops for clients over the past two years and I love doing...

Doing Viral Promotions: A Case Study

Today we launched a ‘viral’ campaign with the Photo Art crew and I have some observations from the lab. I’ve been working with Photo Art Gallery for about 9 months in total, and four months full-on. I’m hoping to write up a bigger case study,...