The project I launched with my partner last December has been consuming all my free time recently. It seems like my deal contests idea has picked up and we now have a few regulars who come to share deals every day. I work late nights adding functionality to the site and it seems to pay […]
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The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the retailer considers bankruptcy as one of the options to solve the increasing debt problem and may file for Chapter 11 as early as Tuesday. The interesting detail is that Linens ‘n Things is a privately held company but they have to disclose financial information publicly because they […]
As I get more involved into the business of running a deal site, the topics like this one come more often to my mind. It is a seemingly simple question yet a very difficult one at the same time. If you get the answer right you will know what you need to change in your […]
Are favorite deal site poll results rigged?
Published March 27th, 2008 in Business Marketing. 15 CommentsExactly 5 months ago I asked all of you to vote for your favorite deal site, and 375 of you did. The top 5 results now stand like this:
Deal Site
Votes
fatwallet.com
82
dealtaker.com
82
dealnews.com
59
slickdeals.net
39
markdownmonkey.com
38
The poll was set so that each vote is bound to a unique IP meaning if you used your IP once you can’t vote again. This […]
Get $50 if you bought HD DVD player from Best Buy
Published March 19th, 2008 in Business Marketing. ClosedThis is a very good example of how a company cares for its customers. Best Buy has just announced it will give a $50 gift card to everyone who bought an HD DVD player from them before February 23, 2008.
Why are they doing it? This could be somewhat compared to Steve Jobs giving credit to […]
