Vista promo video

Posted byLance Wiggs 3 Comments on Vista promo video

Geekzone and Microsoft NZ are runing a competition for Kiwi’s to create a video on “what you like most about using Microsoft Vista”.

Here’s an idea – what about running another competition in parallel – “What you like most about using OSX” and judge responses not just on the quality of the submission, including production quality,  but also on the number of responses…

Or you can just search youtube, and check out the number of positive versus negative Vista videos. It isn’t pretty.

(I’m biased…..)

Published by Lance Wiggs

@lancewiggs

3 replies on “Vista promo video”

  1. Hi Lance… Thanks for the plug. I actually would love to run an Apple competition. But do you know anyone out there at Apple NZ or Apple Inc that actually want to talk to anything else but the MSM?

    Good. You see, they are not in contact, and don’t reply contacts. So really, how could I care or do something?

    From Jerry Maguire: “Help me help you”.

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  2. I wish I wish Apple had a real presence in NZ – for too long Renaissance was the sole distributer, but things are looking up with the Apple.co.nz store and iTunes. I have no idea who the players are though.
    Apple are smart & lucky in that they do not really have to engage anyone but their developers and the MSM – the Apple blogosphere and rumour-mill is huge enough. But then – do you really need Apple to run a competition?

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  3. You see, unlike Fairfax or APN, we don’t have our pockets loaded with money. Competition prizes require money and time. And even Fairfax or APN won’t run something unless the interested companies come to the party. Why should it be different for small sites?

    We promote competitions to attract traffic and to promote the sponsors of course, since they are the ones donating the prizes.

    What motivation do I have to spend a couple of thousand dollars on Apple products, expose their products, and have not even a thank you from them?

    Sorry, but we are in the business here, not playing games with manufacturer to make them happy.

    Truth is, resources are limited, constrains and rules apply to everything you do.

    At the moment we are beating the MSM in the tech sector in NZ. But I run the site full time and it’s my job, so giving away free advertising is not possible.

    Like any other enterprise we have to change, measure, tweak, measure, apply concepts, measure, tweak, measure. This taks time and costs money. Like any other company we have to plan ahead.

    Running this is no joke. It’s survival game. Just like Trademe was before getting a huge injection of money (well, had money before too anyway).

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