Published June 30th, 2010
in Business: Strategy.
In a joke-laden message on the company blog, Woot CEO Matt Rutledge announced today that the company is being acquired by Amazon which has been a minority investor in his company since 2006. The announcement is short of brilliant, I truly had a good laugh after reading the last chapter:
This is definitely an emotional day for me. The feelings I’m experiencing are similar to what I felt in college on graduation day: excitement about getting a check from my folks combined with nausea from a hellacious bender the night before. I remember fondly that time when an RA turned on the lights and yelled “WHO OWNS THESE PANTS?” Except this time, the pants are a company, and the RA is you, and the sixty five hours of community service is a deal that will ensure the Woot.com experience can continue to grow for years and years and years, like a black mold behind the Gold Box. Join us, because together, we can rule the galaxy as father and son. Also, there will be six muffins waiting in the company break room, courtesy of the nice folks at Amazon.com. Welcome to the family!
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Published June 17th, 2010
in Business: Strategy.
I should have gotten more suspicious when last month a member with email account hosted at dealspl.us domain registered at Buxr and started submitting deals and participating in Buxr’s daily life as a normal member would. This was most likely a DealsPlus employee checking out the website but at that time I didn’t care. I even allowed them to win a prize when one of the deals they submitted suddenly got popular with Buxr community! :-)
That competitor’s spying as it turns out wasn’t a coincidence. My friend emailed me last week with this link. The third popular deal site (by Alexa) has just launched Money Makers which is a cash incentive program for deal submitters, something Buxr has offered to its members for 2 years now. Unlike Buxr however, the team at DealsPlus decided not to re-invent the bicycle and went with the well established approach that blog networks like Gawker and Weblogs use to pay their writers.
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Published June 15th, 2010
in Popular Sites Series.
This is May 2010 revision of the Popular Coupon sites list. You can find the previous revision of the list here.
The change in rating shows the difference compared to April results. This list currently has 30 sites - one less than in April. On average the coupon sites have lost (3.45%) in May.
The best performer this month is couponcodes4u.com (6.48%) and the worst result comes from flamingoworld.com (-22.91%) which also goes down by one position. Enjoy the complete list below!
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Published June 11th, 2010
in Popular Sites Series.
This is May 2010 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.
The change in rating shows the difference compared to April results. The list has a total of 32 web sites which is the same number as the last month. There are 18 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. The average price comparison site has lost (3.61%) this month
The best performer this month is thefind.com (11.26%) followed by mysimon.com with a gain of (7.7%). The worst performer this month is streetprices.com with a loss of (-44.24%) followed by bottomdollar.com (-12.54%) which also lost 1 point in Google Page Rank. Please enjoy the complete list below.
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Published June 5th, 2010
in Popular Sites Series.
This is May 2010 revision of the Popular Deal Sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.
The change in rating shows the difference compared to April results and includes all deal sites from my database that meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. A total of 32 sites have made it this month which is 3 less than the last month
The average deal site lost just 0.97% in Alexa rank this month. The top gainer this month is dealsofamerica.com (11.16%). The top loser is deals.com (-19.39%). Another remarkable event happened this month - dealspl.us surpassed dealnews.com as the #3 deal site by Alexa rank! Please enjoy the complete list below.
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