Archive for October, 2009

Video is a powerful tool!

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

One of my sources of inspiration when it comes to blogging, and also the key reason that I started to blog, is the one and only Christian Rudolf at Disruptive. Some of you might remember an earlier post from me describing how I started to blog, but if not please read it.

Anyhow, some time ago I ran into Christian at a lunch restaurant and as we both were leaving the place I offered to give him a ride. We talked about various things in my car and Christian told me about his new interest of doing video interviews to publish on Disruptive.

Then, not long ago I had another chat with Christian and he said: Why don´t you come over and I´ll bring the camera. So, last week I did. One interesting part about his way of doing video interviews is that we sat and talked for more than an hour about pretty much everything from A to Z. Based upon that dialog Christian narrowed down three things he wanted me to do a reflection on. Those reflections is pretty much a 10 minute summary of our very long and interesting chat about loads of stuff, published in a naked uncut version. And here´s the result, enjoy:

One very interesting thing that happened after this interview was published on the Disruptive Channel at YouTube was that I got a call from one of the leading online business magazines in Sweden, Realtid.se, who made their own interview with me and published it right away. Read the interview with me on Realtid here! I guess there´s some true power in the Disruptive Channel.

Read about Christians own reflections on this session on this disruptive blog post or at this Företagende.se blog post.

For more video interviews done by Christian, take a look at the Disruptive Channel at YouTube. For all of you that wants to read more about Christians (and his co-blogger Poppens) thoughts about entrepreneurship, please insert this feed into your RSS reader now!  I promise it´s worth reading!

Bye for now!

Traveas conquers Germany with DERPART

Friday, October 9th, 2009

A lot is not enough, we always want more :-)

So, let me inform you about a major breakthrough for Traveas on the German market:

DERPART Travel Service launches personal mobile itineraries!
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DERPART Travel Service is one of the leading travel agency networks in Germany, with more than 480 agencies including 60 service centers all over the country.  Two of their biggest agencies, the offices in Munich and Düsseldorf, now launches personal mobile itineraries.

Fred Buchberger, Managing Director DERPART Travel Service Munich, says:
“We constantly aim to deliver upon our clients needs of flexibility and service, and an always updated itinerary direct in the mobile phone solves many problems and situations. By introducing the TravelPlanner™ we can give our customers both an added value, a better travel experience and potentially increase our average revenue for a booking.”

Needless to say that we of course are extremely proud of this partnership with two of the leading DERPART offices in Germany. The German market is a giant market, and since DERPART is a huge network in Germany this is a very important breakthrough for us. We very much look forward to start working with DERPART.

We´ll be back with more news within shortly.

Cheers!

Traveas + FlightStats = True!

Friday, October 9th, 2009

At the Traveas headquarters there´s a lot of great stuff going on, but this time I must say we are a bit extra proud.

FlightStats.com partners with Traveas for mobile alerts!

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This means that our TravelPlanner™ soon will be available for 1 million people travelling worldwide.

For all of you without deep knowledge in the travel business, FlightStats is the leading provider of worldwide flight on-time performance information. Now, they have decided to broaden their mobile alerts for everone globally, and they have chosen Traveas to become their strategic partner for SMS/Text Messaging alerts. By making Traveas mobile alert services available for all visitors at www.flightstats.com, the partnership opens up a market window for all FlightStats users outside the US and North America, approximately 1 million users per month.

David White, VP Business Development at FlightStats, says:
“We constantly aim to provide our users with the most up to date information about a flight – when they need it, no matter where they are. The partnership with Traveas makes it possible for all our users to go mobile. This is something we consider fantastic news for each and every user we have outside the US and North America. We look forward to extend our mobile presence to a global market.”

The launch will take place during Q4 2009.

Cheers!