Its like Ebay with lower prices and a different kind of system. I’ll explain. They present the site with a page showing lots of absurd deals; ipads for $3.00, TV’s for $4.00. Then they ask you to put bids on the items. Each bid is a couple of cents more than the previous bid.

Here is the catch, before you start you pay the site for a set amount of bids, around $60. Then you can begin bidding on any items they have on auction, each bid is like 5 cents. But the other catch is, each bid costs you money even if you don’t win.

This site could save you a lot of money, but it is risky. How many bids are you willing to put in? How high a price do you want to pay? And when is it actually saving you money?

This is up to the buyer.

If done right you could save a lot of money, if not then its pretty much a casino.

http://www.quibids.com/

1. Squidoo has 1,800,000 user made different “lenses”.

2 They call their pages “lenses” because each is one person’s focus on something that their interested in, something that matters to them.

3. The entire company is only run by 6 people. The most famous creator is Seth Godin.

4. They are 1 of the top 100 most viewed companies in the United States.

5. They generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual royalties to charities and to their users.

6. Many of the users earn more than $1,000 a year from Squidoo. Some make $10,000. On average a user can make between $4 to $40. And they are many who just use Squidoo to give it to charity.

7. More than 1,000,000 people visit Squidoo everyday.

8. They have a tool called SquidU which is a page where you can get tips for making better lenses.

9. Squidoo is free to use.

10. Their main page has a list of 25 different broad topics including

• Food and Cooking
• Pets and Animals
• Travel and Places
• Weddings
• Parenting and Kids
• Holidays and Celebrations
• Education
• Fashion and  Beauty
• Arts and Design
• Entertainment and Media
• Culture and Society
• Music
• Sports and Recreation
• Cars
• Healthy Living
• Internet
• Relationships and Family
• Nonprofits
• Business and Work
• Computers and Electronics
• Home and Garden
• Hobbies, Games and Toys
• Video Games
• Books, Poetry, and Writing
• And a Squidoo Community

1. Marketing and Communication:

As a small business company or a large business you can use twitter to advertise and provide information to your customers through a popular site easily.

2. Easy Blogging:

It is the easiest and most basic form of blogging out there.

3. Business networking:

Twitter is a informal type of social media networking and can be used to develop business relationships or ventures.

4. Breaking News and Gossip:

It can be used between family members to tell each other of important things that happened in the last week or it could be used for big companies telling of their new product that they are developing.

5. Streamlining Social Media:

You can use Twitter for email type chatting, for chatting, and instant messaging. So instead of using a bunch of different programs you could just end up using Twitter.

www.socialmediamarketing.com

Thats all you need. End of blog post.

Just kidding. This website has everything you need to help develop a successful marketing and media campaign. As quoted from the site,

“SocialMediaMarketing.com creates and leads powerful social media campaigns that will intelligently rocket your traffic, promote your brand and grow leads and sales with maximize ROI to give you a feeling of power and importance in the marketplace.”

They are quoted to having helped Levi jeans, LG, facebook applications, and more. They talk about how, using facebook, twitter, and feedburner, they can help develop traffic to your website and interest in whatever you want people to be interested in.

Seems like a cool website for people to check out if they are starting a business.

Personally I think foursquare is a great marketing tool. Marketing with Foursquare may even be marketing of the future. With foursquare there is a certain interactive aspect, which gives companies the opportunity to market themselves in a way that gets their customers more involved. For instance, if I “check-in” at a place enough times and become “the mayor”, I may get special deals which no one else does. This gives me an incentive to continue to return as a paying customer. With foursquare people can also earn “badges” which could also be used to earn special deals. Creative interactive marketing techniques combined with foursquare are sure to increase a companies customer base and bring back satisfied customers time and time again.

.co has just recently been released as a new website ending, as if there weren’t enough already out there.  The question is what is this new domain and how is it different from .com.  Due to the rising traffic online a lot of .com names have been taken so people are constantly looking for new endings so that SEO rich phrases can be used for their website.  Different endings have also been used make dictions as to what type of site the user would be entering.  For example, .gov websites are only aloud to be federal government agencies, and .orgs are supposed to be for non-profits companies.  .net was created to be for technology and network companies, but as become a viable substation for a website when .com is taken.  So the question is what is .co? and what does that mean for it’s future and place in the market?

.co used to be the international ending for Columbia but the Columbian government in a effort make money decided that it would allow non-Columbia companies to register for .co and it moved all of its national websites to .com.co.  These meant that domains like ford.co, e.co, and apple.co were up for grabs.  E.co was reportedly sold for 81,000 dollars.  It is still uncertain if .co will become popular or how Google will treat .co websites verses .com for SEO purposes, but it is sure causing a lot of noise in the website community.  Domain distributers are really advertising about how successful these new .co are going to be.  Research firms have also surveyed consumers about .co and found that they mostly associate .co with either a corporation or a company.  .co could be a huge success or a big flop.  There have already been over 600,000 .co domains bought and there millions of great domains left. This could be a great opportunity for entrepreneurs.  Time will tell how successful .co will be.

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