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Try it free for 14 days, then have 50% off, on us!

I’m excited to announce a great set of tools we’ve been working on to help you get even more out of your enthuse.me profile, and ensure it really is the best way to promote yourself online, gather a following and get what you want out of your work, skills or passion.

Our team have done a great job of putting together these tools for you, and as a thanks for supporting us in our early days, we’d like to offer you a 14 day free trial of all these features, and then 50% off for your first 6 months. With the discount, that’s just $2.50 per month for all this lot:

Or read on for more about each new feature…

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WeSwap.com

Having worked in the fintech space prior to founding enthuse.me, I’m always interest in innovative consumer fintech propositions. WeSwap harnesses the concept of peer to peer with travel money, allowing you to buy and sell foreign currencies directly with other users. This approach cuts out the middleman therefore leading to lower fees and better value for money.  

Dan, CEO

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Thread

I find clothes shopping incredibly boring, but I like to put a little bit of effort into what I wear. My friends make fun of me for always wearing green trousers… I also have blue, though!

Thread sends me an e-mail from my assigned personal stylist every week with outfits I might like, and they learn my preferences the more I use it, so these days I’m buying one or two things every few weeks. I haven’t been to a clothes shop in months! Anything I like from the e-mail, I click ‘Try on’ and without any other input from me (or any cost for the delivery), it turns up at the enthuse.me office a few days later. I try the stuff, and if i like it I keep it and I’m charged a couple of weeks later; if I don’t like it, or it doesn’t fit, I send it back for free.

The best thing about it all though is that I can e-mail my stylist and they get back to me really quickly with exactly what I’d asked for. I said “I’m running out of T-shirts and I tend to wear plain, bold styles with my colourful trousers” - 2 hours later I have 5 suggestions in my inbox, all plain, bold styles. Ideal.”

Toby, Head of Product

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Makeshift

Makeshift are a studio who output lots of interesting little products aimed at helping ‘makers’ do what they do best. These include Attending.io, a lightweight RSVP system; HireMyFriend, a new take on job-seeking and HelpMeWrite, which helps you decide what to write about before you even begin based on feedback. It’s exciting whenever they push out something new.

Lewis, Front-end Developer

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Histropedia

A reference tool allowing people to explore the history of anything, through beautiful interactive timelines. #watchthisspace 

Dennis Schipper - Web Designer

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Pusher

Pusher is a service that enables realtime communication through different platforms and languages, using a ridiculously simple API. I like it because it helps push the web forward, and make it a first-class platform along with some mobile platforms.

Unai, Code Lord

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Playmob

Playmob is the first in the market for raising funds for charities using mobile and game engine technology, using in-app sales. In numbers:

• 1m in first round funding.
• $66K raised so far.
• 100% a great idea.

Brendan - Developer & Evangelist 

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HowAreYou

Healthcare is going digital and HowAreYou are at the forefront.

Check out the demo and you’ll wonder how we’ve put up with such bad user experience in the past. Not only is HowAreYou beautiful, but it has the engineering behind the scenes to back it up. The engineering team (led by Gerhard Lazu) are pushing Ruby-based web apps to the limit, and sharing their discoveries with the rest of the community.

Matthew - Rudyist 

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Silicon Drinkabout

The beards. The beer. The near-legendary night. If it’s Friday evening, you’ll find me at Silicon Drinkabout drinking too much Minimum Viable Pale Ale and calling it ‘letting off steam’. The original and the best Old St Roundabout startup social, it tours the pubs and tech spaces of east London. It’s free, almost always brilliant, and can now be found in London, Manchester, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Not been? Go. First beer’s on enthuse.me.

Olly, Marketing Manager 

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wireWAX

WireWax lets users create clickable videos by enabling tagging people and objects within the video. As you can imagine the potential of this app is tremendous! It revolutionizes the way video can be used, not only by companies but also individuals, as it allows interactive content and information to be shared. Music bands, fashion companies, football clubs, organisations from the publishing & entertainment industry, galleries, professors, students, families, friends… anyone really!

And as the saying goes: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million :)

So… have a look at the videos to find out for yourselves here. 

P.S. Check out the BBC Interactive trailer. How awesome is that?!

Tania - Marketing & PR

Founder of Buffoon and Space to Work, a Role Model for Big Ideas Welsh Project and recently awarded with the Swansea Bay Young Entrepreneur 2013 Award, Adam Amor is a young entrepreneur with an already successful business record. Let’s have a closer look at what he has to say about entrepreneurship, exciting projects, challenges and tips to follow. 

 

- Nice to have you on board Adam! For start, tell us about your journey so far.

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We caught up with Paul Keeling to discuss about his field of expertise: the magical world of photography.

Paul talked to us about paulkeventphoto, the challenges and perks of photography, shared some business tips and valuable advice, and explained why it is important to use the internet to promote yourself, your work and expertise online. 

-Tell us a few words about your story so far.

My story is an unusual one.

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We are excited to commence our interview series ‘enthuse.meet EnthUsers’ !

We had our first chat with Tanya Smith, founder of tanyasmithonline.com helping bloggers, freelancers and small business owners to leverage the internet and grow successful businesses. 

Tanya took some time to discuss with us about her expertise and passion for online business coaching, how she uses her enthuse.me profile and shared some great tips with us on how to create a business success online. 

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At enthuse.me we are all about passion. We have built a product for you to showcase what you are really passionate about, which made us think about our passion. What is it that we are passionate about, besides building a great product?

The answer came pretty naturally. We are passionate about you! - helping you to promote yourself online in the very best light and build a following.  This is why we decided to launch a round of interviews dedicated to all our amazing “EnthUsers” who want to showcase their expertise within the enthuse.me community.

 

 

The interviews will be more like an informal chat about you and what you do best. We thought that it will be a great opportunity for you to tell us a little bit more about yourselves, your journey so far, your passion and expertise, share some tips with us and let other EnthUsers get to know you better.     

We want to keep it simple and fairly unstructured, to give you space to lead and share with us the things that matter to you the most. For start we’ll try to post one interview per week on our blog and spread the word through our social media accounts - of course we’ll link back to your profile to give you that extra promotional boost as well.

If you are interested in being featured, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you.

The enthuse.me team :)

Although we work hard to make enthuse.me great for you guys, we have some fun times too. Especially when the weather is as amazing as it has been the last couple of weeks (yeah you get that in London too!)

So, the enthuse.me team gathered at -our founder- Dan’s house for a Pizza-Barbecue summer-y Sunday.

We had an amazing time, lots of food, drinks and sun!

We are not going to say more, photos speak for themselves :)

Waiting for the food, chatting and getting tanned

Hungry people, can you tell?

Voila! Yummy stone-baked, home-made pizza

Yeap, tech savvy entrepreneurs cook too

Dennis -our UI & UX Designer- getting excited as he was the first one to be served

Apart from being our front end developer, Lewis has his own band too. Yeah, we listened to some nice tunes that evening. 

Back to work now.
Keep checking our blog as we are working on some new, exciting stuff! 

 

 

We’re delighted to announce the launch of some great new features: 

Following - you can follow and be followed by clicking on the ‘follow’ button attached to each users profile photo.  You can see all users you follow and who follow you in the new connections module.

Notifications - all users now have a notifications tab, this contains updates from the people you are following.

Invitations - you can invite people to follow your profile if they are not yet on enthuse.me they will be invited to join.  Invite people by clicking on ‘invite contacts to join enthuse.me’.

 

Expand your reach by getting people to follow you! 

Log back into your enthuse.me account and start following people like Dan Jacobs!

Let us know what you think of the new features!  

 

enthuse.me has been chosen from among thousands of startups that applied to exhibit at what Forbes called “The new hot ticket on the tech conference scene”. 

Over 5000 start ups applied for the ALPHA program for just a few places at the conference.   The ALPHA program is a means for the Web Summit to support early stage start ups by giving them free exhibitor spaces at their flagship annual event.  

enthuse.me will be set up at their own exhibition stand during the 2 days of the Summit, so if you’re also attending, be sure to stop by and meet us!

The Web Summit

Often called “Europe’s SXSW”, it’s where the world’s brightest minds in technology gather for two days to hear from over 300 speakers; from the world’s leading founders, investors and CEOs to inventors, designers and entrepreneurs. The world’s leading tech companies and the most successful and innovative startups will be there, demonstrating their latest products and services.

We’re excited and want to share this great news with the rest of the world :)

If you feel like it, help us spread the word by sharing our blog post.

Thanks!

 

enthuse.me CEO Dan Jacobs talks about who enthuse.me is aimed at.

In previous generations people had ‘jobs for life’, this was in the case in both the public and private sectors.  As a whole, people would not move between companies very often and there was a sense that if you wanted to, you could spend your entire life in one job at one company.  Those days are now long gone, in the last 20 years the last bastion of ‘jobs for life’, the public sector has also changed and become more dynamic.  

Now two years is a good amount of time to stay in a job, but more and more people are deciding to leave the ‘security’ of a job and are going it alone, either as contractors, freelancers, entrepreneurs, stay-at-home mums looking for extra income or people setting up their own small businesses.

There are many reasons for this growing trend, the perception of job security is disappearing, people are starting to realise that having a traditional full time job is no guarantee.  With the current financial ‘situation’ in the west, people are being made redundant, being asked to take pay cuts, reduce hours and in some cases, many full-time jobs are becoming part-time.  The work force is realising that you may have more security working for yourself, that taking control over your own destiny can be a better way forward.

enthuse.me has been created to serve these people, our mission is to create a set of tools that support people taking the brave step of going it alone.  If you, as an independent professional, went to a marketing agency, they would they ask you:

1. What is it that you are great at?
2. What makes you different to other people?
3. How can you distill this into key messages?

They are also likely to advise you to keep things simple, to focus on what you’re good at and to work your network.

This is what enthuse.me is all about, we ask you the questions that your potential customers would want you to answer.

Over the next year we will be adding more and more tools to support you to be successful.  Tell me what enthuse.me can do to help you, drop me a line at [email protected]