The official numbers are in.
50,000 Aussies use Pocketbook to manage their personal finance. That’s a big number. That’s about the same number of people as the picture above. Here’s a chart of our user growth from October 2012 to last month and a few milestones:
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and if you are smart, you should be planning right about now. Yes, I’m talking to you guys. Girls I know start planning for Feb 14th the minute the New Year party was over.
Unlike most other “Valentine’s Day” articles you’ll read from today til Feb 14th, this one won’t contain too many opinions. Opinions are cheap, even the ones coming from an “expert”. Instead, I’m going to ground my recommendations based on vetted studies and data to give you the best chance of giving your special someone a memorable experience on the “most romantic day of the year” (and score points while you’re at it). Continue reading…
According to a Forbes article, the average male spent $175.61 on Valentine’s Day last year and the average female spent $88.78. The figures, I assume, are based on American spending but I’ll assume they are the same for Australians.
Times are tough but we are hopeless romantics here at Pocketbook. To celebrate this season of love, Pocketbook is giving away $175.61 to one lucky winner, to help you make your dream Valentine’s Day come true – and since we are no sexist, the contest will be open to both males and females at the same amount.
Heck, go ahead and enter even if you’re single and thinks Valentine’s Day is just-another-ploy-to-get-people-to-spend-money. And that’s because while we always embrace an opportunity to show love, we also respect all views.
All you have to do to enter is simple:
Your post can be as long or as short as you want, negative or positive. Then send us the URL to your post so we can verify it. We cross-our-hearts promise that all posts – be they from raving fans or vicious critics – will be considered equally.
That’s it! Use the form below to enter.
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Over the past year, we’ve had close to 15,000 emails from our users like you. We love it – hearing all about what you love and most importantly hate about Pocketbook.
2014 is all about giving our users more of what they want. Making Pocketbook smarter and more suited to your lifestyle. This starts with the launch (later today) of customised Safely Spend durations.
Besides this, we’ve sifted through the feedback and selected the top 7 features you’ve requested. Vote the the ones you want and we’ll get them built! – vote here
Keep the feedback coming!
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If you are one of the rare creatures who:
Then listen up.
Pocketbook is looking for a Journalism Intern to join our startup and help us change people’s lives (Yes, people literally said that about us).
There’s a reason why it’s called the “silly season”. People do crazy things over the holidays and here at Pocketbook, we have the data to back it up.
You must have seen this by now, but we can’t resist sharing it again. According to a new Oxfam report, the 85 richest people in the world has as much wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion. You can read the full report here.
That’s… I don’t even know what word to use here.
What you might not have known is that Australia has the second highest rate in which the rich get richer:
I’ve often hear people say the poor are that way because they are lazy, or *insert vice here*, and I think these numbers just show that’s simply not true. There are deeper issues at work here.
What do you think?
I was browsing the web today and stumbled upon this old article on the BBC.
The article is about Jose Mujica, who, despite being the president of Uruguay, is living a very modest lifestyle. How modest? Check out this graphic:
