Anthill Magazine

Website of the Week: The Loop helps creative people sell themselves

Creative industries have changed dramatically over the past decade, but unfortunately the options for creative professionals to showcase their talent to peers and prospective employers hasn’t. Until now. When it comes to recruiting creative talent, most employers still rely on word of mouth rather than running ...

Here’s a retail website that actually gets it right

In the past, we at Anthill have been guilty of only covering the websites of retail businesses if they were doing something remarkably innovative or clever. Nothing personal – it’s just that many retail businesses tend to adhere closely to a cookie-cutter mould when putting ...

New website helps ‘buy Australian’

When K-Rudd launched the Stimulus Package ‘Investment Allowance’ – a 50% tax refund on business purchases of more than $1,000 by small businesses – I blogged about the idiocy of subsidising foreign purchases. I don’t know about you but I struggle to think of a business ...

Website of the Week: HelpMeChoose.com.au

It’s hard to imagine an environment more conducive to launching an online consumer research and comparison platform for financial services than the one we’ve all been living in for the past year or so. Last year, the continued emergence of online consumer voice and choice collided ...

Anthill dropped its knickers last week. With your help, we’re hoping to get a rise.

Last Monday, we announced that we would soon be added to the Nielsen Online ratings system. As we said at the time, we’re dropping our digital knickers for all the marketing world to see and called on you (our readers) to spread the word on our ...

Customer convenience makes a comeback – Foodies lead the charge

Remember the days when customer convenience was King? Remember the tinkling sound of the milk bottles being delivered to your door? Remember the luxury of having someone fill your petrol tank and give your windscreen a clean at the service station? Nowadays, customer convenience has taken ...

Website of the Week: Toxel – the inspiration station

Repetition is the enemy of creativity. How often have you begun the day with a grand vision for progress and change, only to end it with the nagging feeling that you’ve done much but achieved little? One of the best ways to break free from the ...

Website of the Week: Asking machines to nag you, so humans don’t have to

Even the most disciplined people need a nudge every now and then. There are countless tools to help us avoid distraction and stay focused on our goals. Many of them are elaborate and expensive. Some of them are even human. HassleMe.co.uk is a simple internet service ...

Website of the Week: A quirky new path to market for product ideas

Last year we featured an interesting Website of the Week called NameThis, the brainchild of 22 year-old entrepreneur Ben Kaufman. It applied the crowdsourcing model to help companies name their products. Well, Kaufman, who also founded mophie and kluster, is back with a new variation on ...

Website of the Week: Intel sponsors… “Tomorrow”

Forget “Intel Inside”. The world’s biggest manufacturer of microprocessors has a new tagline: “Sponsors of Tomorrow”. Intel’s new three-year advertising campaign kicked off in May with the launch of a thoughtful new website, viral video ads and interactive display advertising in New York’s Times Square and ...