Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Pinterest is easy to use and even easier on the eyes, which are two reasons that traffic to the online pinboard keeps pouring in. In December 2011, Pinterest received 11 million visits in a week – that’s a 400% growth in just six months. If you’ve got pretty things to sell, [...]
How to Use Pinterest to Market Your Business [Infographic]
Yipit’s Daily Deal Report: Industry Revenue Dips, Groupon Gains Share, And Travel Deals Take Off
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Yipit, the site that aggregates and recommends daily deals based on users’ locations and interests (and raised $6 million back in June from a host of VCs), released some interesting trend data today on the daily deals space. Show original
AmazonLocal Daily Deals Service Comes to New York
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Amazon is expanding its AmazonLocal daily deals service into New York. AmazonLocal, the online retailer’s daily deals service, is heading to New York City.Amazon will start offering daily deals in coming weeks to customers in four regions — downtown, midtown and uptown Manhattan, as well as Brooklyn. Early deals include 50% [...]
A Groupon For Sports? Crowd Seats Brings The Daily Deal Model To Sports Tickets
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Daily deal sites, by and large, seem like they’re here to stay, much to Rocky Agrawal’s chagrin, surely. Whether or not you agree with Rocky’s flurry of posts last month about Groupon and its claque of clones, the daily deals model is not perfect, and it’s certainly a worthy endeavor to [...]
Yelp Brings Local Deals To Mobile And Gives Groupon Now A Run For Its Money
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards The next phase of growth for local deals will be mobile. Groupon knows this, and so does Yelp, which today is rolling out Yelp Deals to its iPhone and Android apps. An update to its mobile apps that is getting pushed out today will add a new deals icon to the [...]
100 leaders of Washington’s tech world, from LivingSocial’s Tim O’Shaughnessy to Capitals owner Ted Leonsis
Our tech scene is the hottest it’s been since the dot-com glory days of the 1990s, with big investment by government in IT, surging green-energy programs, growing biotech research, and start-ups such as LivingSocial. Here are the people who are making this region grow. Gov 2.0 and Politicos Keith Alexander Director, National Security Agency. The [...]
No Printer Required: First Paperless Daily Deal Service Launches
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Gaming platform SCVNGR has teamed up with American Express and Levi’s to create the first paperless daily deal redemption system. If you’ve ever purchased a Groupon or LivingSocial daily deal, you’ve probably gone through the awkward process of redeeming your coupon. You have to print out the daily deal, remember to [...]
Facebook Deals Tips: 11 Things You Need To Know
The daily and social deals space is getting hotter everyday — Google launched Offers just last week — and Facebook showed up early this morning with a serious offering that could shift the tech world’s intense focus away from industry darling Groupon. Facebook Deals is noticeably different from competitors like Gilt, Groupon and LivingSocial, so [...]













