and yes they did

I finally managed to get the Introniche emails to work on outlook.

 Thou mayeth now mail me on sam atatat introniche dot com

No,  techie I am not, but tenacious I can be.

New passtime for tuesday and thursday night: EMMA

No, not the name of my mistress, as EMMA stands for Executive Master in Marketing and Advertising.
At Solvay Business School, Brussels.

Slighty boring? I should hope not.
Anyway, all info is here so you at least know where I am.

On a serious note, I hope to acquire a better grasp of marketing and marketeers which should benefit the IntroNiche business.

Happy new year for everyone

Happy new year 2008 for everybody.

Hopefully, we’ll see the IntroNiche marketplace kicking off and being of good use for marketeers worldwide.

Best regards,

Sam

Blognation down – sad as the idea was pretty valid

It looks like the Blognation group blog has joined the dead parrot club.

For all it’s shortcomings (in the funding & the founder’s transparancy apparantly), it did have the merit of broadcasting pretty interesting news from internet companies all over the world in a nice and orderly way.

Too bad for all the editors who put a lot of time and energy in it and too bad for me as I liked to read that blog quite a lot really.

For the USA news, there’s still the blogs in my favourites.
For the belgian fix, I’ll just revert to web2point0
Any tips on good similar blogs for Europe/worldwide? 

Almost incorporated – start-up on it’s way

Just a little note to remember my accountant just sent the adapted financial plan to the notary public, a necessary first step to get your business registered and set up down here. Never knew financial plans could make you happy.

Almost incorporated – start-up on it’s way

Just a little note to remember my accountant just sent the adapted financial plan to the notary public, a necessary first step to get your business registered and set up down here. Never knew financial plans could make you happy.

You don’t need a lot to be happy

Especially if you are a nerd like me.

A brand new nice little laptop will have me smiling for days.
In this case an HP Pavillion dv2000.

You don’t need a lot to be happy

Especially if you are a nerd like me.

A brand new nice little laptop will have me smiling for days.
In this case an HP Pavillion dv2000.

Tradedoubler: nice people

I went for an interview at Tradedoubler today. Even though I am actually starting up this company.
But the job sounded really good, my selection agency was quite convincing and anyway, I always wanted to learn a bit more about the affiliation business model.

What struck me is that the people I met all seemed talented yet down to earth.
Their COO was in his early thirties, like me, as was the VP for Southern Europe.
Both of them did not have MBA’s and both started as account managers.
And the HR director seemed to have all her wits about her, not a common thing either.
Tradedoubler seems to place quite an importance on their people and their development.

Honestly, quite a nice suprise. I wonder how much of this attitude is based on the Swedish origins of this company? Is this why Scandinavian companies can get so big?

The only thing I can be slightly critical at is the offering on their website.
Can you find the difference between push, pull and campaigns? Or the pricing for this?
A bit more transparancy please…..

Small nations, small online communities?

I can’t help but compare two articles I read today. One in the Financial Times states that “for nations, small is beautiful”, the other one, in the Financiele Tijd (flemish equivalent of the FT) provides nice data on the usage of business network sites, in Belgium.