Posts filed under “Deals”
Happy vs. Willing
A basic truth of startups is that there are many important tasks that aren’t always fun to do. Another basic truth is that no matter what role you play in the organization, you’ll find yourself doing a lot of these. One great example is partner category mapping. One of the really fun parts of aggregating [...]
Great Post on Social Bargain Hunting (via Probargainhunter)
I just came across this great post on ProBargainHunter about Modoshi and Dealspl.us. Yan talks about the time needed for community building and the commission vs. the flat fee approach to getting users to submit and scrub deals on the site. There are some great ideas in this post that are especially topical given that [...]
Great Posts about Comparison Shopping Engines (via Probargainhunter.com)
There are two great posts at Probargainhunter about comparison shopping engines which have great information about what users experience at the top sites. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this area of online shopping. Tips for smart price comparison shopping Price Comparison Engines – Small Fish, Big Fish the full black swan movie
How to make your site better
The best way to figure out what works and doesn’t work in your product is to watch a member of your target audience using it. Prior to our recent release we conducted a number of simple focus groups at Judy’s Book where we had people come into the office for individual 30 minute sessions with [...]
Drag a map around and see where the deals are
Last week, we released an update to the site that makes Valpak coupons mappable and searchable. The coolest part of this for me was navigating to the Seattle Restaurants page and dragging the map around and seeing which restaurants had deals in the neighborhood I was browsing. I’ve never paid any attention to the Valpak [...]
New Features at Judy's Book
Last Friday, we had an important release at Judy’s Book which included several new features. Some visible to consumers, others more in the back end, but all of which should lead to higher quality deals on site. The primary elements of this release were: Deal Approval Queue User Posted Local Deals (supported by¬†Local Editors in¬†select [...]
Awesome Local Deals Content in Seattle & Atlanta
We’ve been working hard to find creative ways to get hard to find local content into the hands of users – basically, doing work so users don’t have to. As most people in and around the local online sector know, it’s hard to get great local content. I think we’re starting to figure it out [...]
New Features on Judy's Book
We just released a couple of cool enhancements to Judy’s Book this week. The first is an enhancement to the user tags feature I wrote about last week. Based on deals users save or post, we infer their favorite stores and categories. This provides another lens on what people are interested in. I’m a big [...]
LinkedIn Q&A Rocks
I was trying to get some information on using a Cingular Blackberry in India and I decided to post a question in LinkedIn’s Q&A section (login required). Within 24 hours, I got some great responses, information about flight training and a strong sense of appreciation for what LinkedIn is doing at the moment. My best [...]
Judy's Book Deal Alerts
With last night’s release, as Dave mentioned, there were a bunch of changes to Judy’s Book and I’ll be writing more about those next week as we shake out some of the outstanding issues. One feature that I’d like to mention in the near term is Deal Alerts. In the left nav on every page, [...]