Monday, June 11, 2007
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago in Product Development by craig
We announced today our marketing partnership with Qatar Airways. Under the agreement, Qatar Airways will promote its fares on Bezurk.com’s flights search engine and deals channel.
We are very excited to be working with Qatar Airways as they have recently made major enhancements to their booking engine which allows e-ticketing from within Asia and access to their best available fares. Qatar ’s investment in their new booking system and consumer facing website certainly puts them in a great position to stamp their mark on the online travel market place and having Peter Pohlschmidt working in their E-commerce team is another plus. Peter is a seasoned veteran in the online marketing industry having worked at both Opodo in Europe and Zuji in Asia.
If you have time read the history of Qatar Airways at Wikipedia its amazing to read what Qatar Airways have acheived since 1993 when they launched operations.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago in Product Development by arun
What was billed as a heavy-weight bout ala Rocky, turned out to be more like Notting Hill than anything else. The conversation between Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the D5 conference was still however, an interesting insight into the minds of two of the most durable technopreneurs in the business. Steve Jobs’ wise-cracks made him look like a mean, high-school bully and Bill Gates seemed like Bambi lost in One Infinite Loop.
What struck me the most was however the difference in the way Gates and Jobs view technology. Bill Gates, undoubtedly a shrewd businessman and a great tech visionary, in my mind appeared to have a disconnect with the world around him whereas Steve Jobs seemed more rooted to reality. Jobs seems to talk about how technology can be used to make his life better, (even the iPod and the iPhone were supposedly born out of Jobs’ frustration with the status quo) whereas Bill Gates always thinks about how it would make a customer’s life better. My point is that while it is absolutely essential that companies listen to customers, if your product isn’t useful or exciting to you (and not just from a ooh-I’m-working-on-cool-stuff perspective), you lose a lot of the motivation to improve it.
We at Bezurk strive to make travel search not just better for the world at large, but for ourselves. And we’re sure that as we refine our core products over the coming months, the pride that we take in developing them will shine through!
