Samsung are marketing their latest venture as a 'Back to College' promotion, although it does apply to everybody. So if you're like me and you still have an expired student card in your wallet, you still qualify for discount on some of the latest Samsung Notebooks, Tablets and Solid State Drives. To make it easier for you, I have created a MoreFrom webpage conveying all of the qualifying products.
Here's how it works:
STEP 1 - Purchase one of the qualifying Samsung products from the MoreFrom Group
STEP 2 - Visit the Samsung website within 30 days of purchase, then complete their online claim form - you will need to hand the item serial number and the invoice we provide
STEP 3 - Expect either a bank transfer or cheque within the next 45 days
This offer ends 30/09/2012 so order now from our Award Winning Website before its too late.
If you require further information, contact Danny - orders@morefromgroup.co.uk.
PC Pro Editor Barry Collins presents Brian Trevaskiss with the award
The results of the 2012 PC Pro Excellence Awards have just been published and we're more than happy to say "We Won - Again"! We'd also like to say a big, big thank you to everyone who bought from us then completed the PC Pro Awards Survey - we're really pleased with our scores.
Customer Service 94%
Delivery 96%
Satisfaction 93%
Overall 94%
If you're not familiar with the PC Pro Awards, here's how PC Pro describe them:
"When spending hundreds or thousands of pounds on IT equipment, you want to trust the companies from which you're buying. The PC Pro Excellence Awards give the firmest possible indication of which deserve your custom. More than 11,000 readers voted in this year’s survey. Each of our 20 awards are 100% reader voted – nobody buys their way onto a shortlist or is excused if they finish bottom. The result is a body of experience and opinion you can trust when you next buy a laptop, tablet or digital camera".
It really is worth looking at the full results for the awards - it's a great way to see which brands and companies shoppers rate and which one's you might want to avoid.
MoreFrom.me is a groundbreaking e-commerce concept where anyone can personalise an online store, share it with their social network and earn commission on every sale.
The MoreFrom Group runs several websites including the award-winning MoreComputers.com On analysing customer behaviour, MoreFrom identified a particularly influential group who were recommending to their social network which products to buy and where to buy them.
MoreFrom set out to find a way to reward and encourage these important Facebook, Twitter and blog influencers. They created MoreFrom.me, which embodies this kind of social selling.
Brian Trevaskiss, Head of Marketing at the MoreFrom Group explains:"MoreFrom.Me combines the best marketing tool - (a recommendation from a family member or friend) with the power of social media. It's an online presence individuals can personalise and curate, where they are compensated in a transparent and authentic way."
MoreFrom.me makes it easy for anyone to create a personalised online technology store. These influencers can curate from over 100,000 big brand and niche products, recommending them through their site and then through social networks. They can earn up to 13% commission for every sale they make.
Brian adds: "In targeting these groups we can increase our business revenues through viral networking by empowering a 'virtual' sales force. It makes for very effective marketing as these people have both access and credibility."
The MoreFrom.me model takes e-commerce and social selling to the next level. Brian identifies four key markets the service appeals to. "First are the technology enthusiasts, proud ‘geeks’ who people turn to for advice. A second group is made up of IT industry professionals who want a zero cost way to sell online. Third are non-profit organisations looking to raise funds, and lastly technology bloggers who can earn affiliate commission for sales of products they review."
Technology bloggers have embraced this idea in particular, Matthew Gibbons, creator of ‘All Things Android’ comments:"Our aim at All Things Android UK is to provide useful information that our readers can trust. If we recommend an Android device or an associated product, it’s because we’ve done our research and genuinely believe it’s a quality product".
"We created our online store All Things Tech UK as a natural progression from recommending products to being able to sell them. In one easy step readers can make a purchase based on what they’ve read. The very fact that they’re reading the blog in the first place means they trust what we’re saying and will invest in a product as a result."
About MoreFrom.me
The world’s first ‘social shopping enabled’ online stores reward customers when they create personalised versions of the MoreComputers.com website and then recommend its IT products to purchase. www.MoreFrom.me
My main objective would be to watch exactly the things I like and to discover some new things I didn't even know I'd like. I get very limited time to watch TV, so I like to make it worthwhile. I prefer to watch films, enjoy a good drama series and the odd documentary. TV for me is a mix of escapism and education.
So what I really need is my TV (or the software inside it) to learn my preferences and make recommendations, a bit like the way Amazon has 'learned' my music taste and now makes pretty good recommendations. Better still would be if my TV knew the sort of programs I might like and recorded them for me (just in case I fancied the look of them). I think recorded programs or on demand via satellite would be better than streamed from my broadband connection. UK broadband is overstretched as it is, with more connected TVs I'm pretty sure your program would stop streaming just as it got to a good bit.
So here's the scenario - I sit down in front of my TV. My TV switches itself on and recognises it's me (face recognition is already in TVs apparently). I'm automatically presented with recommendations, split into - what's on live now, what's recorded that I've selected and what my TV thinks I will like. I simple speak the name of the program and it starts to play. Sounds great doesn't it? The good thing is it's not unrealistic. Samsung SmartTV,Sony Smart TV, Apple iTV and GoogleTV all have elements of this technology.
There's a lot of speculation on which of these brands will 'win the smart TV war' - well I think my money is on Google. There will be times when I sit in front of my TV and even with all these clever and accurate recommendations on what to watch, I still won't like the look of anything. That's where Google will be a winner. I can simply speak a keyword into the a Google TV search (that already knows the kind of stuff I like and the kind of stuff people who like what I like watch) and hey presto - lots of new ideas will appear.
Sounds pretty smart to me - where do I sign up?
Although... what happens when you add the other members of the family ?
