Chrome extensions are good for business
How a Chrome extension can help a business? Some considerations…
FBtops – WordPress plugin for posts tops based on facebook likes, shares and comments
At Kuantero, we develop and launched a new WordPress plugin, called FBtops. With it can be created tops/rankings of posts based on the number of facebook likes, shares and comments the posts are getting. You can download it from here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/fbtops/ It’s very useful if you want to make a contest, where the articles from … Read more
WooPay – WordPress Plugin for payment integration between WooCommerce and Payu Romania
We are proud to create a WordPress plugin for Romanian market that does a very important jog: it allows card payment for WooCommerce with Payu Romania, the biggest local payment processor. It’s called WooPay. You can test the plugin here: http://woopay.kuantero.com If you like it, you can also buy it for a small flat fee. … Read more
Webstock, mobile section
Yesterday I’ve been at Webstock (one of my favorite events about technology), the mobile section. There were some interesting panelist and I found some interesting figures:) What I think is interesting to share: 102 bln app downloads in 2013 (estimate). 91% of them free. Market value 26 bln usd versus 18 bln in 2012 48% … Read more
MOVEorPAY
We just launched one of our dearest projects: MOVEorPAY. MOVEorPAY is a motivational facebook app, that uses 2 powerful agents to help people achieve their goals: 1. the social pressure 2. the fear of losing money. How does it work? Step 1: Install the facebook app from here: https://apps.facebook.com/moveorpay Step 2: Write your pledge, like: … Read more
Why some clients deserve their fate
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
The power of saying “No”
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
50 more clients
The other days we just realized that our site was not updated for like 2 years. Especially the clients section. So, we started to count and we added 50 of them (a round number) on the clients page. It’s a nice portfolio and we are proud of it. A lot of memories re-appeared. And a … Read more
Top of the Most Inspiring Romanians
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
Live blogging from Digital Marketing Forum 2012
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
Twitter traffic is going down
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
NetCamp 2011 – interesting facts
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
Greatest iPhone App ever: earthquake warnings
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
We won 2nd place with StartEvo at Webstock 2011
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 🙂
Multinationalization of the Internet – the future of small online businesses
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
