Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Battle of Talents


If you're feeling confident or if you want to take your idea out of the class room and into the real world, then you should enter your team in the Battle of Talents. The concept is similar to our classes, but we just don't have €25,000 waiting for the winning team. the online help in drafting a good business plan is surely helpful for our speeddate and pitch sessions, so take the plunge and get some ROI on the work you're putting in anyway!

Facebook founder on making money through SNS

Make your site more social!! A How-to guide


Sometimes a title says it all: check out the inspiring advice of Vadim Lavrusik on Mashable and get inspired (= apply his ideas) and may be even go one beyond.

And then the bad news...


Business models for social network sites. Something we are all pondering, including Toon Lowette, who is downright pessimistic about the profitability of such a setup. He mentions low CPM fees for ads at around 20 euro cents. Read more about his criticism and consider ways of mending the problem areas.

No love lost between SNS and Generation Y?


Generation Y, considered to be the natural target audience for any social network site, claim to value texting and emails over SNSs. When asked what they couldn't miss for a week, only 9% of Gen Yers mentioned surfing to social network sites. Email and texting are considered more important, both at 26%. (Source)