My sister-in-law in NYC just got her first Amazon Local Deal and sent me the following note: “This is the first time I have ever gotten something like this from Amazon.  I thought you might find the marketing interesting. The fit with my interests is quite good for an algorithm I’ve never met, but I […]

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How fitting that I have spent the past two days at BIA/Kelsey’s Deals3D conference. I just hit my 2000th follower on Google Plus. I promised that whomever put me over 2K would get a link with the anchor text of his/her choice. So without further ado: Deals

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Reader Kate Raynes-Goldie left this comment on my post The Butchers on Yonge Street: Group Buying Blowback?: The deal that broke north american records is now officially a scam: the butchers have closed their doors indefinitely, for “renovations”: http://www.thebutchersorganic.com/ As you can see from Kate’s comment and my post, a lot of vocal people who […]

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Reviews of businesses on Groupon have been spotted on Google Place Pages since January: Last year I speculated that social local applications like Twitter & Foursquare could start to cause a lot of SEO problems for IYPs because they could easily replicate the IYP structure while providing a lot more unique content. Groupon reviews are […]

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