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This week LivingSocial, the leading Groupon daily deal competitor, ran a deal for $20 gift card on Amazon for $10. Simple math says that’s pretty sweet. I bought it. It…
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Everyone knows what a great job the big boys do. Amazon, eBay–you can go down the list. All of these “born on the web” companies have massive feedback loops that…
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If your company is like most, you worry a lot about how you are coming across on the Internet. Most companies that weren’t born on the Web come off a…
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I changed my shopping habits recently by acquiring Amazon Mobile for iPhone. My 7-year-old, a careful student of anything having to do with Lego acquisition, has been studying me surreptitiously….
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If you’re an affiliate marketer, you probably know about Amazon’s recent announcement of changes to its affiliate agreement, limiting the commissions paid for paid search advertising. If you’re not an…
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