Success story of "Angry Birds"

Journey of Angry birds began as :
" It all began when a Senior Game Designer at Rovio named Jaakko Iisalo showed the team sketches of the birds. Taking inspiration from the swine flu epidemic that was a grave concern at that time, they decided to make the pigs the bad guys. Though they had a clear idea on the concept, it was a hard thing to pitch, as a game that consists of swinging birds that could not fly at pigs, was definitely something hard to sell." as quoted here.

It took one year to develop angry birds, after which, Rovio team decided to spend all on marketing channels, over iPhones. It was a big risk for them, but it eventually worked out, as quoted here.

Peter Vesterbacka talks of the high-flying success of Rovio's mobile game Angry Birds :



Angry Birds is now downloaded more than 1 million times a day.
As of June 2011, Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 250 million times (across all platforms and game versions).
And there are lots of more to share, while reading over net, we found out some of findings :
"We then started defining a plan of how we're going to do that. We had a plan that we were going to do ten smaller games, and maybe one of those would be very successful." That first game, by the way, was Angry Birds, which was dusted down and given a new sense of purpose. “ As quoted by Rovio, here.

People at Rovio were facing ups & downs and were through their troubled times, when angry birds was invented, they just had their idea and a vision, nothing else… This made us believe that one does not need a strong base or lots of money to get big hit. One just need creativity, original idea, and a commitment.. Success is then sure to follow.
Further readings :
http://theprofitwizard.com/2011/05/21/angry-birds-a-success-story/
http://www.proinno-europe.eu/inno-grips-ii/newsroom/finnish-success-story-angry-birds
http://www.angrybirdsblog.com
http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/11/angry-birds-overnight-success-only-took-8-years/

We will be presenting in this special section, “Success Story”, the success stories of various giants or smaller groups, who made a difference.
What do you think ?  Are there any success stories that you want to share with us ? Please share with us.

भारत के प्रमुख व्यापार मेले (Major trade fairs of India)

If you are looking to increase business from trade fairs in india, then major trade fairs happening in india in july 2011 are :
अगर आप  भारत में  व्यापर मेलों से व्यापार बड़ाने के बारे में सोच रहे हैं , तो
जुलाई २०११ में भारत में जो व्यापार मेले होने वाले हैं, उनमे से प्रमुख कुछ इस प्रकार हैं :

 Indian Fashion Jewellery & Accessories show from 8th july to 10th july 2011 @ noida, Delhi.
(भारतीय फैशन आभूषण और उपसाधन प्रदर्शनी )
 
Hyderabad Jewellery, Pearl & Gem Fair 2011 from 9th to 11th july,2011 at  HICC,Novotel, Hyderabad, India
 

Jewellers Association show (JAS 2011) from 22nd –25th July at B.M. Birla auditorium Jaipur, India (ज्वैलर्स एसोसिएशन प्रदर्शनी )
 
 ELECXPO 2011 (Electronics | Electricals | Power Expo 2011) from 14 july to 17 july at  Chennai Trade & Convention Centre,
Chennai, India
 
 
Food & Techonology Expo 2011 from 29th July 2011 - 31st July 2011 at  Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India
 
 
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Children gift suggestions from Qalixa

Today, I was giving support to one of my client, who was adding toys in children segment in Qalixa, he told me  that today is international childrens day. 
I thought, no it cant be, because at sweden we celebrate it on first monday of October, (some people @ may 13). 
After going through google & wikipedia, I realized that different countries celebrate International children day at different dates. ! See this link.
Then I thought, some people must be looking for suggestions to purchase gifts for there child.
Are you also searching gifts for your cute angels & little heroes ?

Well, Qalixa can suggest some categories to go through.
If you are looking to buy for your children, go through products listed in following category :
1) Baby Toys collections @ Qalixa
2) Child Safety items for notorious ones @ Qalixa
3) Kids and Baby Accessories @ Qalixa
4) Toys @ Qalixa
Abigail Van Buren once quoted as  " If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. "
Team Qalixa wishes you happy moments with your child !

Trying out with Free URL Shorteners

 

There are many free sites that provide the functionality to shorten the URLi. URL shortening is very effective, when you have a complex URL but to easily share, you want to shorten it, thus allowing you to post on tweeter feeds, easy for people to remember, and many sites also provide the feature to record the stats, so that you can keep a eye, how many hits you got.

We feel very tempted specially about the clicks monitoring part, and so, decided to test these features, with the URL shortener sites, available in market, of course, this list contains some of those, who are free, as you all must be knowing, Qalixa strongly believes in “free things” !

There is already a post published in our tech blog, about Qalixa’s link shortened by various URL’s. In this post, we simply review  those in a brief manner.

Top 3 services according to us are goo.gl, bit.ly  & su.pr in no respective order, su.pr is very famous Stumble Upon community, goo.gl is service by google, and bit.ly is very popular with tweeter.

Our fun ends for now with the URL Shorteners, how did it went for you ?

Qalixa Shortened URL

Qalixa 's shortened URL using different URL shorteners. 
You can read about URL Shorteners here & here .


These shortened URL's can be used for publicity / marketing via twitter / facebook / emails.


1) goo.gl link : 
http://goo.gl/3UMVv 
Statistical information available @  goo.gl Stats for Qalixa 


2) bit.ly   Link : 
http://bit.ly/lrOjhR 
Statistical information available @  bit.ly Stats for Qalixa


3) tiny URL Link : 
http://tinyurl.com/6jp5az7


4) Stumbled Upon Link : 
http://su.pr/17Hk14
Statistical Information available @ SU Stats for Qalixa



5) Ow.Ly Link : 
http://ow.ly/4OuwA


6) is.gd Link : 
http://is.gd/LEwgOZ


7) cli.gs Link : 
http://cli.gs/b0pr0T


8) SnipURL .com Link : 
http://snipurl.com/27t3ia
  
Have you  been using any URL Shortener recently ? Are you monitoring the clicks ? How did it go ? Share with us your experiences !!!