Yay, our first email referral! :)

by | Feb 13, 2015 | Giveaway, Marketing

I should have done this months ago, it’s so obvious and easy :p I tried to find a solution so people could just click a ‘mailto’ link and it would fill in the info in their mail client, but since passing html into a mail isn’t really secure (or...

Adding your MailChimp list to Twitter

by | Feb 13, 2015 | Marketing, Startups

It’s likely a lot of your subscribers will also have a twitter account. We added a field to our signups to enter this, but some people are a little lazy or don’t see the value in adding it. Twitter has a ‘find friends’ feature that allows you...

My MailChimp Experiment

by | Feb 12, 2015 | Marketing, Planning, Startups

Normally I write a newsletter and send it out once it’s done right away. I’m hardly an expert, we’ve only sent six. This time I though we’d try something new. Apparently the best time to send mails is around 10am, I guess more people are at...

A few promotion and marketing ideas

by | Feb 4, 2015 | Marketing

So, as outlined in our recent email update we submitted an application to Seedrs for some early funding. While we wait for that to be approved we started thinking of ways to try to guarantee 100%+ uptake. One thing some campaigns do is offer rewards for large...

A spot of crowdfunding anyone?

by | Jan 28, 2015 | Marketing

As some of you know we applied to HAXLR8R in November, had several interviews in December and the first 2015 program started last week in Shenzhen, China. They had over 400 applications and had to whittle this number down to just 15 hardware devices. A lot of...