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ASEOHosting Announces Spring Sale With 20% Off SEO Hosting Packages – PR Web (press release)
Mar 21st
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ASEOHosting Announces Spring Sale With 20% Off SEO Hosting Packages
PR Web (press release) ASEOHosting (http://www.aseohosting.com), a popular provider of multiple IP hosting and US and EU dedicated SEO servers, has announced a Spring Sale for new clients with a limited-time 20% reduction on all multiple IP hosting packages for the life of … |
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How To Snag A Sale From A Simple ‘Contact Us’ Page
Mar 20th
Getting website sales isn’t all about product pages and shopping carts. Many business owners forget there is a whole conversion funnel every visitor goes through before choosing whether or not to make a purchase on your site. One of the most important aspects of that funnel is the…
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Twitter as Point of Sale?
Feb 13th
This week American Express and Twitter announced a partnership to purchase via hashtag. For American Express customers that want to tweet to buy, they must first sync their American Express card with Twitter. The service will only work with compatible American Express cards (no prepaid or corporate cards) and a public Twitter account. Here’s how it [...]
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Rare Vintage iPod For Sale On Ebay – For $25,000!
Feb 4th
My pal Kevin just sent me a link to this auction on eBay which he swears is for real. It’s for a “rare, vintage, collectors iPod” and the asking price is a mere $25,000. The iPod is a fourth-generation iPod Classic that’s still in its original packaging. It’s the model that was sold by HP. Has a whopping 40GB of storage space and 12 hours of battery life. According to Wikipedia, HP and Apple ran this crazy joint venture in 2004 and 2005. To say it was a disaster would be an insult to disasters. This might be one of the only units HP actually sold.
Still — $25,000? The owner of the iPod says in his listing, “The part number shows the iPod has been engraved but I have no idea what it might say.”
I’ll take a guess. How about, Hello I’m an idiot and this is my $25,000 iPod.
The auction ends tonight at 7 p.m. Pacific time. That means you have only 10 hours to get your hands on this rare beauty!
If you love collecting vintage Apple equipment but can’t part with $25,000, the same seller – who goes by the name “samsonbible” and has a 100% positive feedback rating - is also listing a vintage second-generation iPod Classic, “pre-owned but with very little wear,” for a mere $2,299. That one also ends today. Hurry, because the clock is ticking.
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Google’s Nexus 4 Is Back On Sale, Get It While You Can
Jan 29th
Google’s flagship Nexus 4 phone is currently back on sale on Google Play for customers in the U.S. and Germany. It’s $299 for 8GB and $349 for 16GB, and the phone is unlocked. Shipping time is currently listed as 1-2 weeks.
If you want one — and we think you will — you should act quickly. This phone has sold out within hours every time it has appeared.
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IF HP Has A Fire Sale, What Should Go?
Jan 4th
While Hewlett-Packard says it “continues to evaluate” the sale of underperforming businesses, the company’s cash flow problem will make the shedding of assets unavoidable. So what’s likely to head to the auction block? Everything from notebooks and desktop PCs to Itanium servers and tape drives that have been draining assets could be on the market, while providing very little in return.
A Breakup Alternative
For Chief Executive Meg Whitman, selling off pieces of the crippled tech giant would be a much better alternative to breaking up the company. Whitman has opposed the latter option, starting with her decision in 2011 to nix a proposal by her predecessor, Leo Apotheker, to spin off the company’s personal computer unit.
Since then, Whitman has ignored Wall Street analysts who say shareholders would be better off if the company spun off the division that sells PCs and printers from the one that sells software, hardware and services to companies.
As a less dramatic alternative, getting rid of businesses draining the company’s limited resources, would help HP make better use of limited cash. In fiscal 2012, HP’s free cash flow dropped to $6.9 billion from $8.1 billion the previous fiscal year, according to The Wall Street Journal. That’s a trend that could spell trouble if not stopped. Without cash, a company will find it difficult to develop new products, make acquisitions, pay dividends and reduce debt.
Getting rid of underperforming businesses is one way to improve cash flow and avoid splitting the company. “Everybody zeroes in on printers and PCs as the things they should potentially sell, and quite frankly, there’s not really a logical buyer for either of those businesses,” Crawford Del Prete, analyst for International Data Corp., said. “And, those businesses generate a significant amount of cash, which Hewlett-Packard needs right now.”
HP-UX And More Must Go
A more logical sale would be the Itanium server business. HP has spent a lot of money trying to drive sales of its HP-UX Unix server that runs on that chip architecture, while the business continues to shrink. In 2010, Microsoft said it would drop support for Itanium and Oracle said a year later it wants to do the same.
Another candidate for jettisoning is HP’s low-end IT outsourcing business, which was included in the 2008 acquisition of Electronic Data Systems. Earnings from the services business has been falling, and last August, HP said it would write off $8 billion in goodwill from the EDS purchase.
Last year, General Motors, a major HP customer, said it would move away from outsourcing IT and take some work in-house. The announcement made industry observers wonder whether HP can handle those large-scale deals, Del Prete said.
Within HP’s Personal Systems Group that makes PCs, workstations, tablets and printers, the company could sell the low-performing notebook and desktop PC businesses, which have been trumped in the market by tablets.
The low-end printer business that primarily serves consumers and small businesses could also be sold. However, printers are still used in emerging markets, so HP would be just as likely to hold off to see how profitable those markets become. “HP has a plan to drive those businesses, so I’d be surprised to see them get out,” Del Prete said.
Finally, tape drives used for long-term data storage is a candidate within the company’s enterprise servers, storage and networking division. Such a low-margin business would be best left to IBM and others with larger stakes in the market.
HP likely has other losers within its product lines that it would be better off without. Whitman should act quickly to get rid of the chaff and focus resources only on the profit generators.
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Black Friday Daily Deal: Online PR Media Buy 2 Get 1 Free Sale
Nov 20th
Today, we continue our Black Friday daily deal series with a special offer from Online PR Media, which just announced the dates of its second annual pre-Black Friday “buy 2 get 1 free” sale on $79 online publicity packages. The press release distribution sale begun Monday, November 19, 2012 and will run throughout the entire [...]
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Groupon Stock Goes On Fire Sale, But What Went So Wrong?
Nov 13th
After losing 90% of its value from its IPO heyday, daily deals guru Groupon is looking more and more like one of its own deep discount coupons.
Founded in 2008, Groupon went public last fall among 2011’s flurry of IPOs from hot-to-trot tech companies like LinkedIn and Skype. Now, the company’s stock is tumbling after it failed to meet analyst expectations for the third quarter of 2012.
After already reaching an all-time low last week, Groupon is now trading at a rock-bottom $2.69 — a plummet from its early November valuation that hovered around $4.00 a share and an absolute nosedive from its $28-per-share opening price one year ago.
The company also recently laid off 80 sales employees “as part of an effort to automate the way it handles its deals,” according to The New York Times. They’ve cut 648 in the past six months. Yikes.
In 2010, Groupon turned up its nose at a whopping $6 billion offer from Google. If Groupon had gone along for the ride, it would have made history as Google’s second largest acquisition ever at about half of the $12.5 billion Motorola buy and over three times as much as the price Google paid for YouTube back in 2006.
Instead the company stayed the course, insisting on remaining independent and confident that it could continue raking in a rumored $2 billion in annual revenue. Talk about seller’s remorse.
Is There A Daily Deals Bubble?
Ask anyone who’s opted out of email alerts for half-price spa days and dinners for two: daily deals served up to your inbox every day can get old — and fast. Most of tech blogging’s upper echelons have already made a case that the daily deals phenomenon is a fad that’ll come and go with the speed of a limited time Groupon offer, and we’re inclined to agree.
Indeed the daily deals space boasts all the trappings of a true tech mini-bubble, from 2010’s sky-high early valuation to today’s ringing silence where there once was the clamor of companies scrambling to get a piece of the half-off pie. With the buzz waning, Groupon and its ilk (Living Social, Google Offers) have become little more than a fly buzzing around your inbox — and swatting it away is as easy as clicking unsubscribe.
The ultimate sign your business model might have jumped the shark? There’s a startup that exists solely to help people get the hell away from your product.
Toss systemic daily deals fatigue on a heap of flaws ranging from understandably disgruntled vendors screwed over by the Groupon model to a green CEO prone to YouTubing naked yoga sessions — and making stockholders squirm — and you’ve got yourself a hard sell.
The demise of Groupon isn’t hard to imagine. As our own Cormac Foster wrote a few months ago when Groupon made our Death Watch list:
“Ultimately, it’s likely to become the biggest fish in a much less important pond. It could easily end up as no more than an obscure division of some much larger, more diversified company.”
Groupon’s Euro-Problem
Groupon’s problems arguably run as deep as its business model, but last week CEO Andrew Mason blamed the company’s poor performance in Europe — and the European debt crisis — for its woebegone earnings report.
“We followed a different playbook in Europe, focusing on rapidly capturing market share at the cost of investing in technology and innovation and, too often, the satisfaction of our merchants and customers. With a weak European economy, we didn’t have the necessary runway to integrate our international business before reaching a plateau in growth earlier this year,” Mason said.
Can Groupon Sell Itself Again?
Groupon might be flatlining, but it’s not quite dead yet. The company did recently expand into new-ish territory with Groupon Goods, a Woot-like version of its extant group buying model that serves up deeply discounted products (Yoga leggings! Microfiber duvets! Facelift cream!) rather than less stuff-like stuff.
Just today Groupon announced free shipping and returns for any items bought through Groupon Goods — not a bad little holiday season incentive. Groupon is also gunning for Square with a mobile payments system for local vendors that promises to be cheaper than the competition.
According to Foster, “If Mason can find new ways to leverage these assets across other products and services (for example, cross-selling full-priced flights or shore excursions at the point of purchase for a discounted cruise), it could build out a convenience-based commerce system and open up new partnership opportunities and compensation structures. If it sticks to online couponing, though, right now is probably as good as things will ever get.”
In other words, let the Groupon fire sale commence.
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One Website Wins the SEO War on Words with Greenwich Flats for Sale – Equities.com
Oct 29th
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One Website Wins the SEO War on Words with Greenwich Flats for Sale
Equities.com A new and contemporary development by Telford Homes, Greenwich Creekside Apartments is winning the SEO war on words on Google for the competitive four word search term “Greenwich Flats for Sale”. The coveted phrase “Greenwich Flats for Sale” is … |
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MyReviewsNow.net Features 60% Off Plus 4 Weeks Free Sale on Barron’s … – Seattle Post Intelligencer
Jul 7th
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MyReviewsNow.net Features 60% Off Plus 4 Weeks Free Sale on Barron's …
Seattle Post Intelligencer SEO Champion was started in 1999 and is owner operated by Michael Rotkin, SEO Specialist for over 17 years. Michael Rotkin's goal for his clients is to “own” keyword placements for the top 3 slots organically, so that his clients can earn a higher … |
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