Comments on: Ag Tweet: Paying Customers http://www.jameskennedy.ie/2009/09/29/ag-tweet-paying-customers/ hundreds of people, tens of euro a month Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:10:54 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: thegoose http://www.jameskennedy.ie/2009/09/29/ag-tweet-paying-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-591 thegoose Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:52:13 +0000 http://www.jameskennedy.ie/?p=445#comment-591 Hey James Thanks for the comment. I hadn't thought of the 3v voucher approach. I get a fair few requests to pay by 'phone credit' but I guess it all depends on the profile of the sender. I'm guessing Paypal will work pretty well for outvesting as its a techie crowd who might mostly have accounts in any case. Great idea by the way. Looking forward to making my contribution. It'll be interesting to see who can make the best pitch for what to do with their 5k. James Hey James

Thanks for the comment. I hadn’t thought of the 3v voucher approach. I get a fair few requests to pay by ‘phone credit’ but I guess it all depends on the profile of the sender. I’m guessing Paypal will work pretty well for outvesting as its a techie crowd who might mostly have accounts in any case. Great idea by the way. Looking forward to making my contribution. It’ll be interesting to see who can make the best pitch for what to do with their 5k.

James

]]> By: James Corbett http://www.jameskennedy.ie/2009/09/29/ag-tweet-paying-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-590 James Corbett Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:19:09 +0000 http://www.jameskennedy.ie/?p=445#comment-590 Great work James and very interesting points about Paypal and WorldPay. I've been a long time user of WorldPay and 2CheckOut (as well as Paypal) for one business and now we're considering our payment options at Outvesting. It seems Paypal will be the most convenient for us at this time and we like the fact that people can buy a 3V voucher if they don't have an account and simply email us the number and text the PIN, instead of having to pop anything in the post. Great work James and very interesting points about Paypal and WorldPay. I’ve been a long time user of WorldPay and 2CheckOut (as well as Paypal) for one business and now we’re considering our payment options at Outvesting. It seems Paypal will be the most convenient for us at this time and we like the fact that people can buy a 3V voucher if they don’t have an account and simply email us the number and text the PIN, instead of having to pop anything in the post.

]]> By: Fluffy Links – Friday October 2nd 2009 « Damien Mulley http://www.jameskennedy.ie/2009/09/29/ag-tweet-paying-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-589 Fluffy Links – Friday October 2nd 2009 « Damien Mulley Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00:41 +0000 http://www.jameskennedy.ie/?p=445#comment-589 [...] Making money from twitter and people who want text updates if people reply to them. People said this would not work for bebo and they were wrong. Maith and fear AgTweet. [...] [...] Making money from twitter and people who want text updates if people reply to them. People said this would not work for bebo and they were wrong. Maith and fear AgTweet. [...]

]]> By: thegoose http://www.jameskennedy.ie/2009/09/29/ag-tweet-paying-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-580 thegoose Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:26:45 +0000 http://www.jameskennedy.ie/?p=445#comment-580 Hi Paul Those are great ideas. I'm actually not so sure about Twitter's rise in popularity. As far as I can make out, the take up rate seems to be declining. I'm wondering if the Twitter hype-cycle is about to peak. Surely it can't take much more. Newstalk and RTE are already in on the game and if that isn't enough to push it into the mainstream I'm not sure what will be. I really like the hashtag option. Very useful for events etc. I really like reading the twitter backchannel for dragons den etc. The guys at twitsms.co.uk have done a nice implementation including the ability to filter messages. The nice thing about filtering hash tags is that I can see people using it who might even have a iPhone. Kind of like an alerts service. I'll have to consider carefully what to do next. I will have a <a href="http://www.piehole.ie" rel="nofollow">day-job</a> to look after and while all this is fun there is an opportunity cost to messing around with all this stuff. Mind you, if it all goes super-nova I'll claim to have seen the trend all along. Setting up a new 02 modem will cost. I actually have a German SIM in test right now that I'd rather play with. I may be better off just playing in the one market and trying to build a brand there however. James Hi Paul

Those are great ideas. I’m actually not so sure about Twitter’s rise in popularity. As far as I can make out, the take up rate seems to be declining. I’m wondering if the Twitter hype-cycle is about to peak. Surely it can’t take much more. Newstalk and RTE are already in on the game and if that isn’t enough to push it into the mainstream I’m not sure what will be.

I really like the hashtag option. Very useful for events etc. I really like reading the twitter backchannel for dragons den etc. The guys at twitsms.co.uk have done a nice implementation including the ability to filter messages.

The nice thing about filtering hash tags is that I can see people using it who might even have a iPhone. Kind of like an alerts service. I’ll have to consider carefully what to do next. I will have a day-job to look after and while all this is fun there is an opportunity cost to messing around with all this stuff. Mind you, if it all goes super-nova I’ll claim to have seen the trend all along.

Setting up a new 02 modem will cost. I actually have a German SIM in test right now that I’d rather play with. I may be better off just playing in the one market and trying to build a brand there however.

James

]]> By: Paul http://www.jameskennedy.ie/2009/09/29/ag-tweet-paying-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-579 Paul Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:12:50 +0000 http://www.jameskennedy.ie/?p=445#comment-579 It's a great idea James, another thing you have to consider is that Twitter's market penetration in Ireland is still extremely low. We haven't had the same media blitz that the US and UK have had so I think there's a proportionally lower number of users here. Your subscriber numbers should rise in relation to the general public's adoption of Twitter, maybe even quicker as it's an easy way to start using the service for people who don't have mobile internet. Would it be possible for you to pick one one of the o2 clear sims and set it up with free texts to o2, or even to all networks? Also, any plans to make it possible to get texts for #hashtag search responses. It may prove more lucrative for you, and I can think of plenty of applications for it. It’s a great idea James, another thing you have to consider is that Twitter’s market penetration in Ireland is still extremely low. We haven’t had the same media blitz that the US and UK have had so I think there’s a proportionally lower number of users here.

Your subscriber numbers should rise in relation to the general public’s adoption of Twitter, maybe even quicker as it’s an easy way to start using the service for people who don’t have mobile internet.

Would it be possible for you to pick one one of the o2 clear sims and set it up with free texts to o2, or even to all networks?

Also, any plans to make it possible to get texts for #hashtag search responses. It may prove more lucrative for you, and I can think of plenty of applications for it.

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