Oct

12

Everything has gone Blyk

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Blyke is an exciting and novel new mobile network concept for the 16-24 year old market in the UK.

The basic deal is that anyone who has a Blyk sim card can get 217 free texts and 43 minutes worth of free calls per month. In exchange for this the user will recieve 6 text messages a day, which are basically adverts for products from relevant companies.

This is a fantastic little concept which is being distributed across Universities in the UK. The obvious comment to make would be that 6 text messages a day are a lot in comparison to what the user will recieve in texts and free minutes. However, they do promise that these brands will be relevant including tribewanted’s friends, STA. Nevertheless, this is really an exciting way forward and has now set a benchmark for an exciting and positive way forward for the mobile phone industry.

This is certainly one to follow.

Check it out: www.blyk.co.uk

Oct

8

Pay whatever you like for Radiohead’s new album

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Radiohead have a new album out, you may be aware of that. However, are you aware that the band is allowing it’s fans to pay basically whatever they damn well please for this album? Well, it’s true.

This is a very clever marketing idea, in a number of ways:

1) The news has been announced and the album can only be pre-purchased via the bands website. This is clearly helping to drive people to their website and therefore increase the bands database which has value.

2) The band will have enough money to loose on such an album nevertheless, the pay whatever you like approach also appeals to the fairness of the loyal supports who will at least pay what they feel they should, some even a bit more. My assumption is that they will certainly not loose out on this album.

3) The PR value in this concept is priceless, it was picked up in media around the World meaning that their marketing budget would have been less and yet the novelty of such an idea would have enabled masses of PR.

Marketing stunt or not this is a novel concept and it will certainly be interesting to see what affect this may have on the music business.

Check it out: www.radiohead.com

Oct

4

Love is in the air on Vorovoro… again!

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Tribewanted tribe members have been getting engaged on Vorovoro and getting married on Vorovoro. Nevertheless, the best tribal loves stories are the ones who have met through the tribewanted project itself. So far we have had Becky (from the UK) and Ryan (from the USA) meet through tribewanted and get engaged, we have also had Fiona Boote (from the UK and Darin Ross (from Californa) get engaged and once again tribe members just cant seem to stop falling in love.

This week Ciaran Ryan, from Arklow, Ireland proposed to Fiona Mulrooney, from Uttoxeter, England. Ciaran and Fiona met at the tribe survival weekend last year. Ciaran is currently one of the 12 Chiefs on Vorovoro and we wondered whether this Chiefly status has influenced her decision!

Again, I think we now have a greater success rate than the UK’s Cilla Black’s Blind Date programme… so, who is next!

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Oct

2

Mark Bowness consultant to Million Places on Earth

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For the past two months I have had the pleasure of being a consultant to the Million Places on Earth concept. Terri Crowther, creator of the concept is a tribe member and was very much inspired by what we had set about to do in tribewanted. With that in mind Terri wanted to launch her own adventure. I am now set to continue being a consultant to this project for the rest of the year.

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I will allow the excellent website, ‘Killer Start Ups’ to tell you about Million Places on Earth:

For many travelers, simply being able to see and be in beautiful parts of the world is an infinitely fulfilling endeavor- however, now traveling amateur shutterbugs have an even bigger challenge. Millionplacesonearth.com is a fantastic idea-site (not just a website, an idea-site) paying homage to the incredible Earth on which we live and travel. This site is home to the mother of all photo contests and is even shooting for a World Record at the same time. The idea is to have 1 million photos of 1 million unique places in the world. The photos must be identifiable and not really retouched. To submit a photo it costs $2, so that in the end the site will raise $2 million – $1 million prize for the best photo and $1 million for charity. Every month there is a “best photo” winner, eliminating photos from the contest and at the end of the contest a panel of independent judges will choose the Grand Final winner. The grandeur of this project hits its peak with the goal to create the world’s largest book- filled with 1 million places on Earth. Currently, the record stands at 5 by 7 feet and is 112 pages - this is their mark to beat. So far, seven months into the contest, there have been 301 photo entries leaving room for everyone to take part! Check out the Wall of photos, get inspired and start snapping what could be the million dollar shot.

In their own words:

“Beentheredonethatgotthephoto Ltd is holding the BIGGEST and most EXCITING global online amateur travel photo competition that the World has ever seen! We dare to be big and we dare to be different!

There is no project out there that is attempting to break a World record, see one lucky winner receive a prize of $1million whilst at the same time donating $1million to charity. Yes, we dare to be different and we want you to join us!

We love travel and we love photography and we get excited seeing photos of places we’ve been to or places that we would love to go to. It makes us want to pack our bags, get our walking boots on and go! Oh, and don’t forget the camera. You know that feeling, don’t you? No prizes for guessing where our company name came from then.

We also have a further aim with this website: to help you make money from your photos which ordinarily you would not make. Photo sharing and travel blogging sites are brilliant but they are not putting any pennies in your pockets, are they? We want to give something back to you. No, not by selling them on some boring stock library! Did you not read the bit above about being different?! We have some great ideas for the future, which you will be part of if your photos get used. You may also be a bit richer too.”

Why it might be a killer?

The company motto is “Never stop travelling, never stop learning.” This site and its goal will resonate with any one who truly calls himself or herself a traveler. The photos that are submitted are presented in a way that respects and admires the Earth and the heart that is involved jumps right off the screen and into the minds of everyone who visits the site. The world record part seems random but let’s run with it.

You can see why I am proud to be a consultant to this project!

Check it out: Millionplacesonearth.com
Check it out: Million Places on Earth on Killer Starts Ups - vote for MPOE here!

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