Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Have you ever read customer case studies offered by IT service providers? Although some are better than others, you’d never mistake them for hollywood-style entertainment. Peer1 is a Vancouver-based Hosting provider who have taken the customer testimonial to next level. They produce fast-paced and quirky videos. The video host is [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
…and 67 MILLION page views per month? Sell the site! Rumour has it that Sparkpeople founder Chris Downie is ready to accept an offer of $75million. The site is currently the third most popular diet site in the US.
From diet to dating… The Sparkpeople deal had Plenty Of Fish [...]
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Posted on July 24th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
POF founder Markus Frind had a good post about how successful blogs don’t start making lots of money. They evolve into media companies who make lots of money. This perspective makes a lot sense. Take three successful blogs: TechDirt, TechCrunch, and TheAlarmClock. Crunch alone has 21 employees! They even acquired [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
So what would you do if your favourite web 2.0 app decided to cancel your registration and block you from the service? Call the FBI???
We just got a comment from “Shawn” on an older post about Vancouver-based dating site Plenty of Fish. The writer’s 2-page rant describes how he’s been “unfairly banned” since Independance Day [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Some commercial dating sites make their money by charging users to message other users. This pay-per-message model requires that the site designer creates conditions that entice users to message often. Quantity of messages equals success. You also don’t really want users to find their prince/princesses because they’ll leave the system. But people do leave. By [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Matt just posted a terrific overview of the amount of work, money and foresight it took SiGe to become a “Chip-Champ”. His main point was that success does not come easy.
That brought to mind the FASCINATING Canadian web2.0 success story that also highlights that the right mix of business model and design can make you [...]
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