It looks like the power companies are active in the market at the moment. I have just had a couple of interesting calls with them. Same industry, different company and very different approaches…. Deal One: How many times have you had this call? “Hello sir… have I...
Regular readers may have noticed my thing for Seth Godin – a very clever writer and thinker on all things marketing, he’s my regular go-to guy. It’s been a few weeks since I last mentioned him… he’s been a little off my radar. And then just last week he sent a...
Hands up if you’ve either: A, Used a GrabOne voucher B, Used a GroupOn voucher, or… C, Have “a friend” who has Joking aside, I’m willing to bet whatever the answer you’ve not spent much time thinking about the mechanic behind vouchers. Put simply, vouchers are a...
Sometimes digital seems so core to our everyday business life it is easy to forget the radical shifts it creates. Often (as with freemium) those shifts mean entirely new ways of doing business. But just as often a digital shift impacts a long established business...
A frequent challenge for clients in growing a digital business is identifying their ideal commercial model. In the last month I’ve worked on this question with a couple of clients – both of them wanted to learn more about “freemium”. The rise in freemium has been...
Recently the mobile on-account mobile battle has started to heat up again with 2Degrees launching a new $49 all you can eat voice, text and 2.5gb of data plan which is approx. $10-$15 cheaper than the competitors current plans. The reason for 2Degrees can...
