BlueKulu

Mobile Marketing Success

Diarmuid Wrenne — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:01:52 +0000

More and more businesses are seeing the power of Proximity Marketing and we get lots of enquires about how they can use this technology. Many businesses have a local premises but many business are out at trade shows and other events and want a portable system. The Bluekulu Media Server is only the size of a paper back book and only weighs 500 grammes. However, providing electricity at these sites can be an issue so Bluekulu has come up with a few solutions:

Musings on Twitter's tweetid growth

Diarmuid Wrenne — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:34:38 +0000

Twitter is a victim of it's own success with millions of users now and a staggering number of tweets per week.
The current message ID is 3685068820
A week ago an id was 3514807126
That's an increase of 170261694
In software development, ID's like this are stored as an unsigned (positive) long which in general has a limit of 4,294,967,295
So (4,294,967,295 -(3,685,068,820 - 3,514,807,126))/170,261,694 gives an end date of the last week in September THIS year, 3.5 weeks from now.

Interesting numbers

Diarmuid Wrenne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:44:17 +0000

Bluekulu is running a trial for a client that is a fast food chain. In a shopping center, the Bluekulu Media Server found 3500 phones, and successfully sent to over 400 phones over a 3 day period. The offer was a "buy one get one free" and it will be interesting to see the redemption rate.

Ministorage.ie uses Bluekulu for location based advertising

Diarmuid Wrenne — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:42:46 +0000

Ministorage.ie is using Bluekulu's Bluetooth Marketing solution to attract new business. Students often have large amounts of books and equipment to store over the Summer and ministrorage was keen to advertise to this tech savvy market. Having researched the options, they were keen to try out Bluetooth marketing and chose Bluekulu to provide them with a solution. The bluekulu system allows their staff to create new messages easily in the office and then deploy the system in a car to be used at events.

AIB Phishing attempt

Diarmuid Wrenne — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:58:45 +0000

I just got an email from what purports to be Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. , <info@aib.ie> , with a reply address of do-not-reply@aib.ie. with a subject of "Internet Banking Update" .

SMS campaign for local elections

Diarmuid Wrenne — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:11:39 +0000

Bluekulu was happy to help a local election candidate, Jim Daly, communicate with his constituents via SMS.

Buy a Bluetooth Marketing Server for Euro 495 + VAT

Diarmuid Wrenne — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:42:53 +0000

For Euro 495 + VAT you could be sending out multimedia messages to your customers. A busy street location should send out over 3000 messages per month. Over 12 months that works out at 4 cents per message - less than the cost of SMS marketing. Of course, Bluetooth messages are sent to people in the area of your shop, restaurant or cinema. With SMS you could be wasting money sending messages to people that signed up last year but are now in Australia. Bluetooth marketing also allows you to send out complex content . Check you our brochure for for more info.

Four Star Pizza February Campaign

Diarmuid Wrenne — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:33:02 +0000

Bluekulu Media Server Brochure

Diarmuid Wrenne — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:53:37 +0000

Download our new brochure from here to read more about the Bluekulu Media Server.

Bluekulu Brochure

Cartridge Kiosk advertise on the High Street

Diarmuid Wrenne — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:44:56 +0000

A local Cork retailer of IT equipment used Bluekulu to send a special offer to their customers and to passing trade. The street is very busy in the evenings when the shop is shut, so many of the messages were received by customers out of work hours. The offer proved to be popular with students.