the goose

I’m fascinated by price points.  I think they are a great place to start thinking about building a ‘value proposition’.  “What would you pay €10 for?” is a great question to get the creative juices flowing.  FREE is a price point I have never had much luck with.  We are constantly debating whether to introduce it at piehole.  It seems as though if it ain’t broke we shouldn’t try and fix it.  I did want to experiment however.  These guys seem to have mastered the art of offering something for ‘free’ in return for publicity.   Qwitter has been wildly successful and yet so far devoid of profit.

Or has it?  They seem to be busier than ever and I’m sure the good karma has something to do with that.  In an effort to experiement with the model myself, and as a means of finally getting on the social media bandwagon, I’ve produced agweet.com as a personal sprint.  It allows you to update your twitter status by sending a text to an Irish mobile number.  This is something our neighbours in the UK have been able to do since the get go.

Doubtless Twitter will introduce and Irish text number eventually but until then there is a nice little opportunity to give away a little bit of value for free.  Thanks for Ciaran McCarthy for digging us out with a layout and a logo.  Also thanks to piehole for letting me get this going on company time.