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Fandango Making Good Use of Group Buying

viva fandango You might have heard of the Amazon.com deal on Livingsocial and the Gap deal on Groupon.

Both of these deals made the big headlines and with good reason. Back in August 19 , 2010, by day’s end, 441,000 Groupons of the GAP deal were sold, bringing in a little more than $11 million. Groupon usually splits the revenue with partners, but declined to disclose its share.

However, there’s another company that is making good use of the group buying industry. Keeping under the radar, Fandango has been dishing out deal after deal through group buying websites. Here’s how Fandango does it.

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How to Hack Video Screens on Times Square

Want to hack video screens? There’s an app for that!

times square iphone hack — Via gothamist.com

A hacker claims that he was able hack video screens around New York’s Times Square using his iPhone, a transmitter, and a video repeater.

Watch the video below. What do you think: real or fake?

Unique Unconventional Marketing Nuggets

Guerrilla marketing ideas are known for their creativity, humor and effectiveness in promoting a concept, product or business. They are also considerably cheaper than mainstream advertising thus attracting even more attention to the business because of their refreshing ingenuity.

guerrilla marketing

Here are some great marketing ideas to use for your business.

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Skype Offering $10 for 3-month Premium Subscription

Skype is partnering with Groupon to offer $10 for a three-month Skype Premium subscription, which gets you unlimited international Skype-to-Skype calls, face-to-face video chatting, video conferencing, instant messaging and low-cost calls to non-users.

According to Groupon, this 3-Month Skype Premium Subscription is valued at $26.97.

Check it out:

Winners of Dragon Age Legends Beta Key Giveaway #2

be legendary dragon age legends — First of 3 posters that the Dragon Age Legends team commissioned from Adam Phillips to embody the core ideas of the game.

Congratulations to the second set of 4 winners of the Dragon Age Legends Beta Key Giveaway!

I will contact you via DM to send your beta key and ask you whether you would like a 2.73 by 4.73 inches postcard containing your code mailed to you. It includes the image above of the Adam Phillips poster in the front and your code on the back. This is a great collectible item for Dragon Age fans.

A total of 8 beta keys were given away, good luck to the winners and a big thank you to everybody who tweeted about the contest and participated.

Try Dragon Age Legends in closed beta at http://apps.facebook.com/dragonagelegends.

Google Targets ‘Scraped’ Content and ‘Content Farms’

In a move “to encourage a healthy web ecosystem,” Google recently announced a major change to its search algorithm – a move to devalue so-called “content farms” that primarily copy content from other websites, and sites that offer little or no value-added content for users.

The move ensures the continuance of the Internet adage, “Content is King!” According to Google, its algorithm tweak “noticeably” impacted 11.8% of its search queries, dropping the search engine results page (SERP) rankings of sites that “copy content from other sites or sites that are just not very useful,” while providing better SERP rankings for “sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.”

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Winners of Dragon Age Legends Beta Key Giveaway

Congratulations to the first 4 winners of the Dragon Age Legends Beta Key Giveaway!

There are 4 more beta keys (and postcards!) available.

Do you want one of them? Just click on the tweet button below AND follow me at @idaconcpts. That’s it! You’re automatically entered into the draw for one of the beta keys. The more you tweet, the higher your chances to win.

Remember to follow @idaconcpts so I can DM your code.

I will announce the next winners of 4 beta keys on Monday March 7th, 2011.

Good luck and get tweeting!

Try Dragon Age Legends in closed beta at http://apps.facebook.com/dragonagelegends.

Affiliate Nexus Tax Coming to Arizona and Minneapolis

amazon tax If you are an affiliate located in Arizona or Minnesota, then beware the online taxman!

Both states are considering adoption of the Affiliate Nexus Tax. Basically, the law says if an online retailer has affiliate marketers in the state, then the retailer is responsible for collecting and remitting sales tax. As a result, if the law is passed, hundreds of merchants may decide to terminate their relationship with you.

Problems with Affiliate Nexus Tax

Bills of this ilk are often mistakenly informally referred to as “The Amazon Tax” or “Internet Tax.” But these names are misleading because the tax, which is complex and takes on many different forms, singles out just one group within the online advertising space: affiliates.

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Charlie Sheen Joins Twitter

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts Charlie Sheen has joined Twitter!

Just a couple hours after opening his official Twitter account he has 204,819 followers and appears in 1,530 lists (2:21 p.m. HST).

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