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Deal website discretion: A deal a day can keep the consumer away

While daily deal websites and flash sale websites offer a service or product at a discount to bring in new consumers and incentivize them to return, consumers are not coming back after the initial use, a marketing and technology researcher says.

How to Guard Yourself From Flash Sales

Rue La La. Zulily. Gilt Groupe. These sites have garnered millions of hits using "flash sales," which involves combing through thousands of deal offers and sending out the best ones in a daily email to registrants. In fact, flash-sale sites received 46.4 million total U.S. visits in March 2012, an increase of 31 percent over March 2011, according to Experian Hitwise, a surveyor of online ...

EMC Acquires Flash Storage Maker XtremIO

EMC, in a not-very-well-kept "secret" for the last few weeks, announced May 10 that it is acquiring startup XtremIO, a flash-based storage maker that hasn't even issued its products for general availability yet.

How to protect yourself against 'flash sales'

Kit Yarrow, a professor of psychology, says flash-sale sites are designed to tap into the most vulnerable aspects of our shopping psychology--and they can be quite devastating for people who can't resist them.

Learn: SEO Lingo Defined

While there are plenty of great articles on the Search Engine Journal website that dissect current SEO best practices and provide excellent recommendations to current webmasters, all the advice in the world won’t make a difference in your website’s success if you don’t understand the terminology that’s being used in the first place! So if [...]