Who wants a 4 hour Workweek?

February 15th, 2007 32 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration
Background:
My name is Tim Ferriss, and I’m a serial vagabond, cage fighter, and guest lecturer in high-tech entrepreneurship at Princeton University. I write you today as a 29-year old first-time author who is nervous about my launch, coming up fast on April 24th (Crown/Random House Publishing).
The book, “The 4-Hour Workweek,” is [...]

GoMobo Needs Some Marketing Love

February 8th, 2007 42 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration
Company: GoMobo.com is a mobile food ordering service. We allow customers to order food in advance via text message, get an exact ready-time confirmation message back, and skip the line at busy coffee and lunch shops in NYC.

Problem: We have done a LOT of things for adoption but we want it [...]

How can Innertee.com Make A Killer T-shirt Experience?

February 1st, 2007 27 Comments Noah

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration

Update: Miles from Innertee said he will give out 2 free shirts to the first 2 reasonably good comments.

company:
innerTee is a t-shirt remixing community that lets anyone mix their own apparel using approved artwork provided by other community members. The apparel design can be purchased, shared and even remixed by [...]

Let’s Redesign Roam4Free and Win Free Things

January 24th, 2007 17 Comments Noah

Another Grouporation = Group + Collaboration
Company: Roam4Free helps you to eliminate high roaming costs in hundred of destinations.

Problem: Pat doesn’t like the way his website looks. I am hoping he can comment on specific objectives that he wants to improve on.
Question for us: What features do you like or not like on Roam4free and how [...]

Learn Out Loud: How to Turn Window Shoppers into Customers?

January 18th, 2007 11 Comments Noah

Another Grouporation = Group + Collaboration
Company: Learn Out Loud is a place to get podcasts, audio books and Videos you can learn from..

Problem: Currently they’re getting about 100k uniques a month to LearnOutLoud. However, less than 1% of those people ultimately purchase a product, in part because they make so much free stuff available [...]

Thursday Grouporation: Answering Machine Message

January 11th, 2007 6 Comments Noah

I thought of something new to try for 2007. Grouporation!
The opportunity for us as a group to collaborate and help 1 new site, blog, offline product, mom & pop shop, etc… each week with a usability, marketing or other challenge.

This weeks challenge is Anwering Machine Message.
Problem: Many businesses miss out on an effective and [...]