We were invited to a sales pitch to a huge multinational. The discussion was like this: – What is your programming cost per hour? – Programming, what language? PHP, ASP, Java, C++, …? – It does not matter. Give us a price per hour. And it must be legal binding for the next 3 years! … Read more
Historically speaking, we started as a CONSULTING company, because our main benefit was the huge and various e-marketing experience. Then, the clients said: “Why didn’t you implement what you just said?“. So, we become a full e-marketing agencies, with focus on web/apps development. An then 2 more things happened: A. all clients came from recommendations. … Read more
For our soul project, StartEvo.com, we’ve launched the Top of the Most Inspiring Romanians. You can see the top here: http://startevo.com/topul-romanilor-inspirationali-startevo Actually, this is a Facebook Application, available here: http://www.facebook.com/startevo/app_453410094674665. After you install it, you see the list of your facebook friends, you check the names you consider inspirational, and that’s it. 🙂 Until now, … Read more
Today i’ll stay a little bit at Digital Marketing Forum 2012. Here are some of nice stuff: without integration of understanding, intuition, sensibility, a digital social media is in vain they use “Antena” software, to listen the web total media = owned media + earned media + paid media push (persuasion) pull (motivation) be social … Read more
I was never a big fan of Twitter. I consider it a way to waste time, a nice thing to play with is you are an early adopter. An online gadget. Apparently, other people considered it the same. In Romania twitter is 1/1000 of facebook also. In US, the ratio is much better: aprox 1/4. … Read more
Today I will be at Netcamp 2011 – www.netcamp.ro (first part of the day) and at the E-commerce Prizes Gala (in the second part of the day). I thank the organizers, for inviting me. Marius Ghenea all actual studies shows that small entrepreneurial companies are generating jobs, not the big ones the progress came from … Read more
We are proud to have been worked on what I consider to be one of the greatest iPhone apps ever. Your phone starts to yell with approx 30 seconds before a destructive earthquake will hit the Bucharest or other cities near epicenter. Here you can buy the app: http://itunes.apple.com/ro/app/alerta-cutremur-vrancea/id465291565?mt=8 We are proud that this iPhone … Read more
September 23, Friday night, we won 2nd place at Webstock Internet Festival with StartEvo, our soul project. The only project that defeat us was the Robotz, who has like 0.5MM fans on facebook. So, indeed, we achieved a great result, that we are proud of it. We are very, very happy 🙂
My bet is that on medium and long term a lot of small sites/online businesses will die, because of the multinationalization of the Internet. Let me explain. In brick and mortar world, mom & pops individual corner shops started to decay for like 40 years now, because the large chain stores kicked in. Both the … Read more
Here are some questions that your site must answer if you want to have a well seen website in google ranking Can your web page content be trusted? Would you trust the information presented in your article? Is the article written by an expert or enthusiast who knows the topic well, or is it more … Read more
Today i am in Mobile Marketing Conference, at Howard Johnson, at the invitation of Cristi Manafu. Here are some interesting facts INNITIATIVE 300mm – smartphones today -> 1.8bln in 2013 if trend continues 2.5mm smartphones in romania now international, data is bigger than voice. in romania voice 43%, data 31%, sms 19% 58% of respondents … Read more
We all know that at least in theory, google penalize the stolen content. Right? 🙂 “Google crawls site A every hour and site B once in a day. Site B writes an article, site A copies it changing time stamp. Site A gets crawled first by Googlebot. Whose content is original in Google’s eyes and … Read more
Restograf.ro is a website owned by George Butunoiu, the famous physicist headhunter. Here, him and tons of other VIP from Romania are give grades of the Bucharest restaurants. This is the most relevant source of information from high profile people. Good luck to him 🙂
Although Google is still the best in the field, my overall impression is that they are slipping out. Maybe is just a phase. Or maybe is too much bureaucracy. Google adwords approval rate is much slower than before. And it makes no sense, because they are loosing money. Google spam fight seems to be lost … Read more
