Why none other than Sorehead, seller of the good ol' Snakk oil, TruScreen (for suckers) and PlusSMS(cam)!
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A very interesting and encouraging article from Microsoft, on VMob technology, http://blogs.microsoft.com/iot/2015/...er-engagement/ ... with some incredible statistics that lend confidence as to the future successes VML seem certain to enjoy, such as ...
"McDonald’s in Sweden has seen a 700 percent increase in offer redemptions, and customers using the app are returning to stores twice as often and spending 47 percent more."
and ... "New Zealand-based VMob is [helping] McDonald’s transform its customer engagement in the Netherlands, Sweden and Japan, regions that represent about 12 percent of the food service retailer’s locations worldwide"
... or put another way, 88% of MacDonalds worldwide will be wanting a piece of that action!
This is a good way to keep up with the VML news https://www.linkedin.com/company/1192801
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VMob's solutions are right in the sweet spot of mobile marketing:"Top 3 Technology Trends Marketers Should Watch In 2015" http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/top-3-
VMob ticks all three boxes.
Anticipating some great news on prospects arising from the NRF-National Retail Federation 2015 conference.
Here's some good news https://www.nzx.com/companies/VML/announcements/260004. I was expecting a USA agreement coming up next but they have done one better and gone global!
I wonder if there is anyhthing in their McDonalds agreements which prevents Vmob from deploying the same technology to their competitors, KFC, BK etc..., does anyone have any inside info on that? If it works so well for McDonalds and gives them the edge the other fast food outlets would want a slice of the action as well.
Fantastic news, global McDonalds, much better than expected! Well done VMob, an excellent development, it opens up the 80% of McDonalds that VMob don't already have - 400% increase in opportunity. USA would have been exciting for sure, Global McDonalds is tremendous. The last paragraph is also very encouraging (as is the bid / ask this morning) :)
"VMob is ideally positioned to provide its unique software platform and services to benefit similar clients around the world."
A word of warning to all (yes, history is relevant and does teach us lessons!).The VMob announcement this morning is interesting. On the face of it, it’s great news for a small company that has promised much for a long time.
However, many of the same investors/actors in VML were the same people in Plus SMS, which had a history of ramping news to sell down at big profit while dupes piled in. It all came to a big crash when they acknowledged that their market announcements bore little relationship with actual likelihood of revenue.
Mobile marketing 2006 vs mobile marketing in 2015… so what will be the difference? I am not saying that VML won't make it, I'm just saying exercise caution here and remember who you are dealing with...
Well if nothing else BFG, you are reliably repetitive, like a broken record. Anyone would think you have a vested interest in VMob, but you don't do you?, they can read your warning posts that follow every positive post on here. Oh, we know, you do it out of the goodness of your heart, to save us from ourselves and the boogiemen who you despise so intensely. Fortunately those boogiemen don't have your real name or you'd probably be wrestling a defamation suit. It's easy to hide behind a nom-de-plume. There's no need to keep re-writing your story, just post links to all the similar posts that you've deposited throughout ShareTrader. In the meantime, some may be happy for VMob's success today and the future.
The McD's announcement can only open up more doors one would think.
I'd love to have more robbo but its already fully weighted in my portfolio. 😉
What a bugger of a day to announce it. Auckland Anniversary day and didn't check my messages/market until 11am. Once Auckland wakes up to it more sellers might come out, so there could be a pull back. Mind you, might bring in more buyers!
This can only been great news about VMob securing an international contract with McDonalds and the team from VMob are to be congratulated in securing this holy grail of contracts. I think NZ does not understand the scale of how big McDonalds really is. everyday McDonalds serves 68m customers. They have 35,000 outlets globally. Annual revenues are $27.5b. In China there are 200 restaurants opening each year. McDonald's feed 1% of the world population everyday.
obviously we are not being informed of the commercial aspects of the deal, but in the USA there are 14,267 restaurants outlets.(as at 2013). With Immediate roll out of the USA tranche there will be considerable upside on the financials. As news of this contract broadens I will expect to see VMob finally break away from its penny dreadful status.
BB, I could have been a lot nastier and spiteful than that, but I chose not to be. I am just telling traders/holders to do their homework and look at the history of the people involved with this. These guys know who I am anyways; I am not as anonymous as you think I am (if you're near Palmy you can in fact come say hi on Friday night!)
If they make it, good on them for giving it a go. In the meantime, I suggest caution.
That is all, I'll leave you alone now.
... and just like that 8 of the top 10 are people who picked VML in Stocktastic for 2015. I wonder if it will hold.
Commercial sensitivities of the contract aside, it's a shame there's not at least a revenue number attached. We don't need to know VML's margin on the contract but anything to quantify how large a deal it is would reassure market sceptics, etc.
If it's as good as what it appears, it may well be timely for a share consolidation to remove the penny-dreadful perception and status.