Rentoid blog

Here’s the interview John & Ross did on the morning show on 3AW with rentoid chief espresso maker Steve Sammartino.

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Happy listening!

The rentoid founder (Steve who is writing this particular blog entry) has ‘man love’ for Kelly Slater. I’ll admit it.

Anyone who can dominate a sport for 18 years, retire, comeback win, retire again, comeback and win more world titles, have more than twice as many world titles as the nearest competitor and just basically dominate when ever he chooses too  - rocks. He even beats people half his age. After securing his 9th world title he just might be the greatest sports person of all time.

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So if you’re a surfer like I am - you’ve probably got a shed full of baords and only live a hop skip and jump away from the beach - so why not get some of your boards up on rentoid for rent. The boards you’ve got which already avhe their share of dings. Make some cash for your new stick next year.

The fact is this - we get requests for surfboards all the time and just don’t have enough on rentoid to rent out. Help someone esle get barrelled!

For the early birds out there rentoid founder and cheif espresso maker Steve Sammartino will be interviewed live on 3AW at 6.30am.

You can click here to tune in live over the web:

Heck you can even watch him talk to Ross & John live by clicking here.

If you sleep, well we’ll get a copy and post it here.

Posted by Orangegirl.

Maybe just have a night in for holloween - and old school scary movie night… Get onto www.rentoid.com and hire some scary movies. Dont forget the popcorn makers, and party lights. Hey, what about that old costume you never wear - yeh, the batman one your bought for other reasons…. get it up on rentoid and rent it out to the trick or treaters…

Enjoy.

Climate change is regarded by many as the biggest problem facing the global community. It is also regarded by many as the one of the best business opportunities – in a classic SWAT sense. It’s an issue that is unlikely to be resolved any time soon due to the fact that climate change isn’t the problem. It’s actually the symptom. The problem is excessive consumption, something we won’t ever hear from governments, companies or anyone other than the extreme left and conservation groups.

Here’s the thing: Everything we do (consume) happens to emit greenhouse gases. Driving, eating, buying, mining and building all consume energy and resources being manufactured, packed, delivered and used. Governments and corporations are unlikely to encourage reduced consumption because, apparently, ‘physical’ growth is good.

Some would argue that permanent growth in consumption is an inescapable consequence of the debt-based nature of all modern currencies. When almost no one questions this, let alone understands it, reforming a consumption-focused economy could take decades, or perhaps be impossible. There’s time for a lot of pollution in those intervening decades, and anything we do in the meantime to consume in a less polluting way (in our lives and through our entire business value-chain) has to be welcome.

Carbon off-setting is just too simple, and only provides a band aid solution to the current economic system’s ecological problems. A more positive 2.0 business approach is to consider the three price tags that every business has. We’ve been trained to focus on the first price tag: the price on the shelf or car window. Occasionally we consider the second, and the third price tag has been largely ignored in the post war industrial era.

First price tag: The cost of purchasing the good or service, usually represented in a dollar amount.

Second price tag: Cost to use, maintain and hold the product or service. The dollars you need to spend on it to get the value in use.

Third price tag: The cost for the wider environment and ecology, social implications and personal cost.

The three costs of anything never did live on separate islands. Just like any complex economic, social or biological system, they all interact. We we’re just fortunate to have had such an abundance of resources on earth that we could get away with it. Unfortunately, for the last 30 years most companies, brands and governments have pretended that this isn’t so.

There are myriad ways we can leverage the three price tags. The first is to admit, then leverage the inter-connectedness.

Toyota has done an amazing job on this with the Prius Hybrid car. The first price tag is a premium ($40k-$50k), but it more than pays off on the second (1,000km per tank of petrol) and the third price tag (90 percent less emissions). Both of which beat every other car on the market. No surprises that Toyota hasn’t had to do any ‘real’ (expensive) advertising in Australia. For many years the Toyota Prius couldn’t keep up with demand in an industry which is constantly announcing plant closures, mass redundancies and financial disasters. Interestingly, it’s the third price tag that makes the emotional connection with consumers.

Ok, we don’t have to go out and save the world to leverage the three-price-tag insight. It’s a reality in all product and consumer segments. Businesses that build a strategy considering all three prices can really have an advantage – a path to market. It’s only a matter of time before the three price tags become enforced by governments. We’ve seen it in housing efficiency, white goods, alcohol and even water.

Which industries are currently ignoring price tag two and three? Maybe you can be first to market with this insight and give them a marketing lesson.

Considering all the price tags doesn’t mean we have to live in a cave and eat nuts. Smart businesses will find a way for us to maintain lifestyle while eliminating eco footprints, not simply offsetting them. In fact, it’s smart businesses that will transform our way of living – not government regulation. Businesses that manage to do this will be rewarded with a mass of positive, free publicity and greater brand traction.

It’s no different with early stage business development or being green. If you’ve got an issue, make sure you focus on the problem, not the symptom, or you’re unlikely to solve it.

Steve Sammartino is a surfer & greenie at heart and also the founder of Rentoid – a peer-to-peer renting portal, which has all price tags covered!

Posted by orangegirl.
We all know that not only buying, but selling a house is a costly business. With all the garden landscaping, cleaning, wanting everything nice before your open day or auction. Why not rent everything from www.rentoid.com ?

Rent a nice lounge suite to brighten up your loungeroom, fairy lights to make your garden attractive in the evening (and lets face it alot of people drive around after dinner looking for houses for sale). Imagine the nice photo taken at dusk with those nice lights on making your home stand out. Also, rent art for the walls, and nice potted plants for each room. Presentation is everything. So when selling, think www.rentoid.com to help give you a better price.

Our home and lifestyle category is Chokas… Check it out here.

And hey, while you’re at it, rent a trailer to move ;) 

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If blogging was a country it would be the 7the biggest in the world with a population of 185 million people..

Holy WOW… that’s big, that’s powerful… that’s exciting….

In a few short years (less than 10 in fact) new digital social media has given us an awesome voice. Here’s agreat way we can use it. Blog Action Day -

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rentoid is on it - we actually give a shit about the world and the people in it, unlike many other companies….

If you want to get involved - go here for more details

Here’s our cool little animated video pulled together by Lukey. it explains how rentoid.com works to our newbies - Hope you like it.

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Just a quick note to members to remember to put their mobile phone number on their rentoid membership…

Here’s why:

Whenever someone wants to rent one of your lsited items you’ll get a free text message advising of it. Just in case you don’t check you emails for a while.

To change your membership - just log onto rentoid and click on the “my rentoid” area to update your membership details. Easy.

Of course if you ahve any problems just give the rentoid crew a call from one of the numbers you’ll find on the rentoid “contact” page.