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What we need more of on rentoid is creative descriptions of the items people have for rent. Here’s a coupl;e of ideas of what would be a cool way to describe the following items:

Nintendo Wii - As played by the current local champion of the Brunswick Virtual Gaming Society (me) of which there are 5 members (the people who live in our share flat)….

iphone - As invented by Steve Jobs and very similar to the one he used in his recent key note address….

Mountain Bike - as used in a recent jump where I cleared 2 semi-trailor Kenworth trucks after getting towed in by my brothers Datsun 120Y….

You get the picture - and believe me creative descriptions get items rented more frequently - simply because people send fun stuff to their friends… and next thing you know Zap! - Someone who needs your item stumbles upon it and rents it.

It’s a crazy old world out there.

Cheers, rentoid team.

I recently happenned about an video from the ABC broadcasting in the USA. It is basically taking about how the concept of renting items is growing strongly. I thought it was quite insightful and so decided to share it here. Just click on the image to watch the video.

Last week Monique Conheady gave a great talk at the Melbourne Entrepreneurial event the Hive. Monique is the founder and CEO of super Groovy Business Flexicar.

Firstly - we’d like to say how awesome we think Flexicar is and really think you should all check it out. A great idea with super eco credentials which encourages people to share cars and provide an infrastructure to do this.

Secondly - Monique had some cool ideas on what being green in business is all about, which we loved so much at rentoid we thought we’d share right here:

Green Washing: Companies who offset the bad stuff they do for the environment, buy paying to offset their actions, in carbon credit or by other means.

Light Green: Businesses which have a semi green angle to what they do, and use it for marketing purposes.

Bright Green: Startups and new businesses which are a paradigm shift in consumer behaviour and move humans along the sustainability scale.

Monique’s business is clearly bright green. we’d like to think rentoid is too.

He rentoiders - sorry our blog has been a content desert lately…. hade some issues with wordpress.com - but we’ve now moved over to wordpress.org to this tasty new blog address www.rentoid.com/blog

We’ll be blogging 3 times a week now and we’ll certainly transfer all our old entries here for further reference.

Cheers, rentoid team.