LivingSocial Offers 50% at Amazon

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Mashable reported than more than 230,000 vouchers were purchased two hours after the offer had gone live. As of 16:32 HST, a total of 1,084,998 gift cards have been sold.

That’s almost $11 million in gross sales for the Washington, D.C. based startup. About a month ago Amazon.com invested $175 million into LivingSocial, it appears as it made a smart investment.

Get your Amazon.com gift card today. you still have about 10 hours (as of 16:35 HST).

UPDATE (01/20/11): LivingSocial sold a total of 1,301,296 Amazon gift cards. $13,012,960 in gross sales for one day’s work is not bad at all.

 

Advance Your Business With Credit Card Processing Options

Visa - image by Declan Jewell on FlickrAnyone who a operates a business knows that taking credit cards is important. Not everyone carries a lot of cash around with them, and there are risks with taking checks that might not clear the bank. Credit card processing is a safe way to let people make purchases. It helps protect both the buyer and the seller, and can be used in almost any industry. Whether you have a business in a brick-and-mortar location, online or both, you can definitely benefit from taking credit cards.

Processing Costs

The downside is that processing credit cards is not free, and different cards charge different amounts. Some businesses raise their prices to compensate for this, or tack on a “credit card charge” to the order of anyone who uses a credit card to make a purchase from them. Doing this is accepted practice in many businesses, as long as they make it clear that they’re doing so.

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4 Steps to Segment Social Media Traffic in Google Analytics

The Google Analytics Traffic Overview is a report that provides an overview of the different kinds of sources that send traffic to your site. The graph shows traffic trends; the pie-chart and tables show what is driving the trends. “Direct Traffic” is visits from people who clicked a bookmark to come to your site or who typed your site URL directly into their browser. “Referring Sites” shows visits from people who clicked to your site from another site. “Search Engines” shows visits from people who clicked to your site from a search engine result page.

Google Analytics Traffic Sources Overview

Given the rise of social media, a common question by newbies to Google Analytics is how to track their social media referrals. Here is how to do that in 4 steps.

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3 Examples of Auto Insiders Using Viral Videos to Market Cars

Viral videos, in spite of hitting the ceiling for time trending, have remained relevant because they are irresistible. Thus, when they are anything less than scintillating, a public bored with quick-fix features will instantly click-away. Within the auto industry, there are three leaders who have made a mark for themselves amongst social media experts, both for viral ingenuity and panache.

1. As a prelude to the release of the Prius plural, Toyota unveiled a snapshot of the car in a viral video of world-renowned Brazilian skater Bob Burnquist doing his thing. Though the video only showed the cargo space of the new Prius, a brief glimpse of the hood, and a distant view of the body, fans went wild for the teaser, which was perfectly framed by the professional athlete.

In the past, Toyota has been a big success with videos like the Swagger Wagon and Small Talk.

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How to Test New Website Ideas

testing website ideasGood ideas come and go every single day, and you can spend hours day dreaming about a beautiful web site idea that you have in mind.

Creating a website can take a lot of time and this deters a lot of people from actually getting around to making that idea happen. Even more, you don’t want to spend time on something that may not work anyways.

So, here lies the dilemma: How can you you test new website ideas without working on them?

Here is a solution.

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4 Benefits of Internet Fax

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Internet Fax (or “efax”) is a general term which refers to sending a document facsimile using the Internet, rather than using only phone networks (traditional faxing) with a fax machine. While the idea of setting up a fax number may appear to some a bit outdated given the popularity of email, there are 4 key benefits to consider.

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8 Open Source Projects from Google

google codeFor many Google has become the patron saint of open source, and the number of open source projects Google supports or directly develops seems to increase every day. Some of Google’s own open source projects, like Android, have become as common as their proprietary competitors, yet many do not even realize they are using software with free and open source components.

While major projects like Android, WebM video, and Chrome make headlines and attract numerous developers and end users alike, there are plenty of little projects from Google that you may not even know about, but that are worth looking at and maybe even taking for a spin. In no particular order, here are eight of the ones I found interesting.

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