Sramana Mitra: And most of it goes into the garbage. Diarmuid Mallon: At best. Maybe they just get something from the headquarters of the store. They have no insight. Those vouchers sell products but gain no customer insight. So, we’ve been working with some consumer product companies and have found interesting ways to use mobile
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like the operators and the banks have a synergistic situation in most of these regions. Each of them is trying to reach the same customers. In fact, for the cellular operators, if they say that by buying a cellular phone you can also get into the cellular banking system, that’s another
Sramana Mitra: Can you walk me through the workflow of that? Diarmuid Mallon: What we have is the person who sends the money has a mobile wallet that has cash loaded into it. Now, I say the person sending the money, but it could be cash loaded by an agent, or the person could have
Sramana Mitra: Right. I think we understand the benefits. Would you talk about how banks are doing it? What is the architecture of the solution? How does the money flow? Diarmuid Mallon: What’s being done is that there’s a commerce platform deployed on mobile. Traditionally, when people talk about mobile banking, what they’re talking about
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Sramana Mitra: But Google doesn’t have access to Facebook’s algorithms. So, what Facebook is doing is not what Google or Bing has access to. They can’t use that data to do their optimization. Frank Dale: That’s right with Google. What Google is typically looking at is what’s going on on things like Google+. They’re also
SM: Their starting prices are $1,000 or $2,000 a month. FD: That’s pretty common in that space, and certainly with a company like Marketo or Eloqua, you’re looking at a mid-market enterprise level tool. If I were going to look for something like that, to unify that a little bit, I’m probably going to look
Frank Dale: Let me make sure I’m with on this. When you’re running these contests, are you initially acquiring the leads through the partners? Sramana Mitra: No. We have a registration page on Eventbrite. Because we already have a large footprint plus other partners publicizing the events, people register for the events. Each session we