The road has been rough for JudysBook ever since the management changed business venue in September 2006 moving away from online reviews to shopping deals and coupons.
JudysBook ranking in my monthly deal sites list has gone down from #10 in May to #16 last month and it doesn’t seem like the new direction has […]
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Warm weather = bargains in department stores
Published October 12th, 2007 in Business: Strategy. 2 CommentsI was listening to business news on National Public Radio today and among other things they were talking about how warm weather negatively affects sales at department stores and profits of the businesses behind. From Associated Press:
Several of the nation’s largest retailers cut their earnings forecasts Thursday after lingering summer weather and an uncertain economy […]
Zecco is no longer free, will it survive?
Published October 8th, 2007 in Business: Strategy. 7 CommentsThings are not going well for Zecco, an online stock brokerage that launched last year with an innovative free trades concept. At least not well enough to use the original idea as a sustainable business model.
The company just announced that they are changing the pricing structure and starting October 1, 2007 will charge new […]
Downloadable coupons come with sneaky extras
Published September 30th, 2007 in Business: Strategy. 3 CommentsAn article has surfaced on SlickDeals forums that describes Coupon.com spyware like practices. It was quite an eye opener for me to learn to what extends Coupon.com goes to limit/track the coupons you print using their Coupon Printer. In addition there is some interesting information about possible privacy issues with the software. Here are some:
Installing […]
Chase, Mint viability, and web scraping
Published September 25th, 2007 in Business: Strategy. 5 CommentsIt is interesting how much attention this small company captured over the past week. Search for mint money management on Google and you get almost 2 million results. I made my own contribution just yesterday where I was questioning the viability of this service. Using web scraping for obtaining financial data is one of the […]
