Ed Dale and Oren Klaff continue their series of interviews on how to pitch anything.
Podcast: Dominiche
Episode: #20 – Not Just Any Pitch – Session 2 With Oren Klaff
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Not for everyone, but very funny
Podcast: Angry Mac Bastards Podcast Feed!
Episode: AMB Episode 139 20111129
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It’s Ok To Let Go Those Crappy Domains! - Domain Investing and Domaining Blog
http://domainmichael.com/its-ok-to-let-go-those-crappy-domains/
It’s Ok To Let Go Those Crappy Domains! - Domain Investing and Domaining Blog
I hear a lot of webmasters complain day in and day out about all the changes that Google constantly makes to its algorithm and how they affect our search engine placement.
Let me break it to you: it’s not all about what Google has done and will do to update its algorithm.
It’s about what you SHOULD BE doing.
Infographics are becoming one of my favorite ways to see and understand a process.
This one is all about the adwords auction, my favorite traffic source.
© 2011 WordStream – a certified AdWords partner.
Some cool things I found online and want to share with you.
Are you heading for burnout is a great on post on a topic I know I have to keep in check. It’s all to easy to spend too much time working on the stuff we love doing.
Duplicate Ccontent always raises a few eyebrows. This article goes deep into the SEO rabbit hole.
I’ve become a great fan of infographics and so has google.
Have a great weekend!
Latest Dominiche Episode is live
In this episode I ask Ed why so many people just don’t succeed online. You know what, he told me!
Latest Dominiche Episode is live
In this episode I ask Ed why so many people just don’t succeed online. You know what, he told me!
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Why A Domain Broker Won't Sell Your Domain Name
http://www.elliotsblog.com/why-a-domain-broker-wont-sell-your-domain-name-3894
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This podcast isn't for everyone, but if you're a Mac fan, don't mind your humour a little on the blue side, you'll love this podcast.
Podcast: Angry Mac Bastards Podcast Feed!
Episode: AMB Episode 132 20111011
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Rival sues Dropbox over rights to the name and website
http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2011/07_-_July/Rival_sues_Dropbox_over_rights_to_the_name_and_website/
NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) - A Texas-based company has filed a lawsuit claiming rights to the name “dropbox,” which is being used by a popular California startup, Dropbox, that offers computer users a way to store and share files online.
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Google Updates PageRank on the Heels of Panda 2.2
http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/internet-news/google-updates-pagerank-on-the-heels-of-panda-2-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SeoDesignSolutionsBlog+%28Seo+Design+Solutions+Blog%29
While this event may not carry significance for non-SEO types, for affiliates, webmasters or internet marketers vested in the process of percolating new sites (to develop more on page authority), spawning PageRank on their new domains invariably augments long-term SEO efforts (by creating a higher degree of referential integrity) for internal pages to circulate link weight, which in turn can produce rankings
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Monkey Says You Can’t Have This Domain Name
http://domainnamewire.com/2011/06/20/monkey-says-you-cant-have-this-domain-name/
A company that sells t-shirts and tote bags emblazoned with the saying “Monkey Says” has lost its attempt to grab the domain name MonkeySays.com through a UDRP case.
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Get Ready for .Vegas Domain Names
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/14943575/get-ready-for-vegas-domain-names
LAS VEGAS — The next time you surf the web, the .com that comes after websites could end from anything — .bank to even .vegas after the international organization that oversees the internet address system approved a major overhaul.
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End of Cyber-squatting? The gTLD Advantage
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110619_end_of_cyber_squatting_the_gtld_advantage/
In a post gTLD market, say in case of dot rice, why would some squatters register ibm.rice or google.rice? They may fancy ben.rice or uncle.rice to encroach on Uncle Ben’s rice brand. Dictionary based brand names like united.rice or national.rice will have their own issues. What would squatters achieve? What would holders and URDP do? In case of dot inn, some may try for holiday.inn or in case of dot airline, it would easy to try delta.airline or gluf.airline. Here the bigger question is why invest $500K and months to acquire dot airline? Where is the real monetization of such a root in the first place?
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How To Flip A Website
http://www.flipwebsites.com/buying-websites/how-to-flip-a-website/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FlipWebsites+%28Flip+Websites%29
What It Really Means to Flip a Website
So many things have been lumped into the topic of “website flipping” that actually don’t belong there. Much of it has polluted the marketplaces, and that is largely due to the amount of guru products on the subject leading people astray.
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If you have $44 million lying around, Buy Domains has a domain for you
http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=2451482&t=2
If you have $44 million lying around, Buy Domains has a domain for you
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Oh merde! The perils of Cloud Domaining in French
http://domaingang.com/domain-news/oh-merde-the-perils-of-cloud-domaining-in-french/
Oh merde! The perils of Cloud Domaining in French
Posted by Lucius “Guns” Fabrice on June 17, 2011 · 2 Comments
Mon dieu! Zese clouds are magnifique! We’ve said it before: if you’re not familiar with the particulars of a language, do not attempt to register domains in it. Such is the case with IDN domains, where a lot of rookie domainers simply registered compounds by simply flipping a dictionary.
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Where Are They Now? The Top Five Domain Sales of 2010
http://morganlinton.com/where-are-they-now-the-top-five-domain-sales-of-2010/
There were some absolute blockbuster domain sales in 2010 and I thought it would be fun to look at what’s happened with those domains since their purchase. The top five domains sold in 2010 were all one word .COM domains which should come as no surprise.
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Business and Boobs
http://www.flipfilter.com/blog/2011/05/25/business-and-boobs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WebsiteFlippingWithFlipfiltercom+%28Websites+for+Sale+-+Strategy+and+News+with+Flipfilter.com%29
This week adult webmaster portal Ynot Group announced plans to launch a marketplace for buying and selling websites and domains.
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Internet Adds 4.5 Million Domain Names in First Quarter of 2011
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/internet-adds-45-million-domain-names-in-first-quarter-of-2011-nasdaq-vrsn-1519085.htm
Four and a half million domain names were added to the Internet in the first three months of 2011, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
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Restaurants.com Sold For At Least $6,000,000
http://www.chefpatrick.com/restaurants-com-sold-for-at-least-6000000/
On May 4th 2011 Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire.com published information that Monte Cahn was suing Oversee.net for over $13,000,000. In that article it states Cahn was not paid commission for the sale of Restaurants.com.
1 + 1 = Restaurants.com sold for at least $6,000,000.
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Sedo.com Sued For $10 Million Dollars Over Failed Women.com Purchase
http://www.thedomains.com/2011/05/17/sedo-com-sued-for-10-million-dollars-over-failed-women-com-purchase/
Sedo.com Sued For $10 Million Dollars Over Failed Women.com Purchase
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Year's First Seven-Figure Sale Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart at DNJournal.com
http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2011/20110525.htm
It has been a long time coming, but finally - four and half months into the 2011 domain sales season, the year’s first confirmed seven-figure transaction has been completed. Boxcar.com/DomainConsultant.com did the honors by closing DomainName.com for an even $1,000,000. That is certainly an appropriate name to be leading any domain name sales chart so it is fitting that it is the one that broke the blockbuster ice this year.
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Domain Name 'RunningShoes.com' Sells for $700000
http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/2772-Domain-Name-RunningShoes-com-Sells-for-700-000
Chad Weinman: “Well, aside from the fact that we feel like RunningShoes.com is a premium domain name and certainly worthy of a significant sum of money in and of itself, it ranks on the first page within the major search engines, being Google and Yahoo!
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Urgent: Factions Want to Impose Uniform Rapid Suspension on .Net
http://domainnamewire.com/2011/05/08/urgent-factions-want-to-impose-uniform-rapid-suspension-on-net/
Business Constituency may propose new regulations for .net.
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Registered new domain names hit high record in three days
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Science_Technology/2011/5/92381/
Registered new domain names hit high record in three days
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How Do YOU Value a Domain? Here’s How I Do It
http://domainshane.com/how-do-you-value-a-domain-heres-how-i-do-it/
Valuing a stock is simple. Valuing a car. Piece of cake. They have metrics, formulas, and thousands of identical items selling every day to help establish the value
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GoDaddy Code For $7.99 Renewal: Verified Working
http://domainshane.com/godaddy-code-for-7-99-renewal-verified-working/
Everyone wants to save a little money on their renewals. There are always codes floating around but most of them are expired and don’t work.
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Brilliant ad – Flippa sticks it to eBay on eBay.com !
http://domaingang.com/domain-news/brilliant-ad-flippa-sticks-it-to-ebay-on-ebay-com/
Brilliant ad – Flippa sticks it to eBay on eBay.com !
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Breaking: .jobs takes ICANN to arbitration
http://domainincite.com/breaking-jobs-takes-icann-to-arbitration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DomainIncite+%28DomainIncite.com%29
Employ Media, manager of the .jobs top-level domain, has become the first registry operator to take ICANN to arbitration to fight off a shut-down threat.
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How Much Is a Domain Worth… to an End User?
http://domainingtips.com/domain-valuations-end-users.html
How Much Is a Domain Worth… to an End User?
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Color.com Was Acquired For $350000 (The Domain Name, That Is)
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/24/color-com-was-acquired-for-350000-the-domain-name-that-is/
Of course, it is a heck of a lot of money, put in ahead of the actual launch and early user reception of the product to top things off, so evidently most people will deem it a frivolous investment.
Only time will tell if it is, or if it’s instead a genius move.
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What's in a domain name? Even less, according to Google
http://www.stuckon.co.uk/what%E2%80%99s-in-a-domain-name-even-less-according-to-google-3983.html
Google guru Matt Cutts has indicated that the value placed on keywords contained in domain names is set to diminish.
So far, the domain name of a website was very important to its ranking in search engines, with the emphasis being placed on any keywords it contained.
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8 Tips for Protecting Your Domain Names
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/article.php/3928456/8-Tips-for-Protecting-Your-Domain-Names.htm
8 Tips for Protecting Your Domain Names
It’s ten o’clock in the morning and the number of visitors to your ecommerce site has suddenly dropped to zero. Normally you make online sales worth hundreds of dollars an hour, but now your business has come to a standstill.
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selling websites for $300K Using Confidential Listing | Flippa Blog | Buy & Sell Websites
http://flippa.com/blog/website-with-confidential-listing-sells-for-300k/
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Groupon Finally Claims One of Its Domain Names
http://www.dailydealmedia.com/461groupon-finally-claims-one-of-its-domain-names/
Groupon has finally won back one of its domain names, Groupon.ie through arbitration. The ie is the domain extension for Ireland. Up to now the daily deals site has been using the name of CityDeal.ie in that country.
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Are Parked Domains Hurting Direct Navigation?
http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=870031&t=2
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Sex.com takes crown as world's most expensive domain name
http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/943800--sex-com-takes-crown-as-world-s-most-expensive-domain-name?bn=1
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10 Little-known Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2011/02/05/10-little-known-ways-to-get-traffic-to-your-blog/
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Dramatic increase in value of domain names
http://www.smeweb.com/content/view/2468/119/
Annual domain name market study from Sedo records 12 per cent growth in domain name sales year-on-year.
Online domain marketplace, Sedo, today reveals that the trading of domain names online has reached new heights, with a 12 per cent growth in sales of web addresses recorded year on year.
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Is Ferrari A CyberSquatter? Ford Sues Ferrari Over Its Registration of FerrariF150.com But Ford Doesn’t Even Own F150.com or FordF150.com
http://www.thedomains.com/2011/02/09/a-cybersquatter-ford-sues-ferrari-over-its-registration-of-ferrarif150-com-but-ford-doesnt-even-own-f150-com-or-fordf150-com/
Is Ferrari A CyberSquatter? Ford Sues Ferrari Over Its Registration of FerrariF150.com But Ford Doesn’t Even Own F150.com or FordF150.com
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Aussie firms take steps to combat domain name typo-squatting
http://www.globalgold.co.uk/web-hosting-news/domains-news/aussie-firms-take-steps-to-combat-domain-name-typosquatting-800388295
Aussie firms take steps to combat domain name typo-squatting
Aussie firms take steps to combat domain name typo-squatting Monday 7th February 2011
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Deals.com.au Sells For $100K & Company's Are Grabbing Up Their Own Typo's
http://www.thedomains.com/2011/02/06/deals-com-au-sells-for-100k-companys-are-grabbing-up-their-own-typos/
The domain name Deals.com.au sold for $100,000 according to the dailytelegraph.com.au to a Company Zoupon which is the “fifth or sixth largest” group buying website in Australia claiming around 400,000 members including our Facebook fans and Twitter followers.
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.Co Hits The Front Page Of The LA Times
http://www.thedomains.com/2011/02/03/co-hits-the-front-page-of-the-la-times/
In a 2 page article (in the print edition) entitled “A .Co Kickoff For Godaddy” talked extensive about the .Co extension, Godaddy and domain names.
Love to see domain names on the front page of one of the highest circulated newspapers in the US.
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ByMe.com Attracts $29,000 Domain Sale
http://www.dotweekly.com/byme-com-attracts-29000-domain-sale
ByMe.com, a nice 4 letter domain name that is a combination of two words, attracted the highest reported sale over at Sedo so far today. ByMe.com sold for $29,000 USD. ByMe.com was owned by MarkLark, LLC and Register.it is currently the registrant on file. Very nice and unique 4 letter domain and I can see why it attracted the price that it sold for!
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Octopus.com, one of the oldest registered .com domains, goes up for sale on Flippa for just $20,000
http://fusible.com/2011/02/octopus-com-one-of-the-oldest-registered-com-domains-goes-up-for-sale-on-flippa-for-just-20000/
Octopus.com, #46 in the top 100 list of oldest registered .com domains, has just been listed for sale at Flippa.
According to The Next Web’s list of the hundred oldest domain names, Octopus.com was registered on November 17, 1986, the same day as Adobe.com, Amd.com, Das.com, Data-io.com, Portal.com, and Teltone.com. The auction, which has an oddly low reserve price of only $20,000, ends March 5, 2011.
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Penis.net Springs Up $11,500 Sale At Sedo.com
http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=847637&t=2
Penis.net has changed hands for $11,500 USD sale over at Sedo.com domain name marketplace. This isn’t the first penis to change hands in the past year, as Penis.org sold at DomainFEST in 2010 for $11,000
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Is a net blackout possible down under?
http://www.zdnet.com.au/is-a-net-blackout-possible-down-under-339308850.htm
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Noel Gallagher's domain man
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3380589/Noel-Gallaghers-domain-man.html
NOEL GALLAGHER has been leading a Spanish inquisition to find a cheeky fan who was scuttling his solo masterplan.
The former OASIS star found out recently that a cunning punter in Barcelona had snapped up the domain name noelgallagher.com ten years ago.
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Why Google Favors Keyword Rich Domains
http://www.seo.com/blog/google-keyword-domains/
You would think search engines are like an “equal opportunity employer.” That everyone has has the same chance to get ranked for certain keywords by taking advantage of on-page and off-page techniques, which include some of the following:
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Domain Names 'Should Be Keyword-Rich'
http://www.impactmedia.co.uk/blog/search-engine-marketing-news/seo-news/domain-names-should-be-keyword-rich-800364800/
“Having a keyword-rich domain name and creating a sound information architecture followed by proper page naming conventions can put you on the fast track for SEO success,” it states.
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Getting the most out of premium domains
http://sullysblog.com/Left-of-The-Dot/
Mike: LeftofTheDot.com is pretty descriptive of what your company represents. I think we’ve all seen sub-domains in use, but can you tell me where the idea to base a business on this concept came from?
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2 Types Of Link Building (And When To Use Them)
http://www.michellemacphearson.com/the-two-types-of-link-building-and-when-to-use-them/
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Did Twitter pay $47,000 for Twitter.co.uk?
http://domainincite.com/did-twitter-pay-47k-for-twitter-co-uk/
The domain name twitter.co.uk, which was until recently listed for sale with a £30,000 ($47,000) price tag, is now owned by Twitter.
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The domain name that got away
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/2011/jan/24/TDMBIZ09-the-domain-name-that-got-away-ar-793428/
Here are two phrases for tech-savvy businesses to add to their lexicon: domain name “drop-catching” and “getting in on the drop.”
Have you ever wanted to acquire a domain name someone else has registered? You do not own domain names perpetually. You register them for a period of years. If you don’t renew the registration, the domain name becomes available for registration by others. There are many reasons why you might want to corral domain names that are already registered.
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What Does a Backlink Look Like?
http://sitefling.com/blog/what-does-a-backlink-look-like/
“What Does a Backlink Look Like?”
When I giggled, I wasn’t laughing at him, moreso I was laughing at myself for my ignorance in not realizing this might be a concern. After all if you are just learning what something is for your first time, and have never seen one, then YOU PROBABLY don’t know what one looks like – and would like to know!
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Could Dirt.com really sell for $5,000,000 on Flippa? Rumor is NewsCorp is interested
http://fusible.com/2011/01/could-dirt-com-really-sell-for-5000000-on-flippa-rumor-is-newscorp-is-interested/
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GoDaddy.com Mobile App Surpasses 500000 Downloads
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110118005102/en/GoDaddy.com-Mobile-App-Surpasses-500000-Downloads
GoDaddy.com Mobile App Surpasses 500,000 Downloads
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Last Chance To Comment On .AU Policy Review
http://www.domainnews.com/en/last-chance-to-comment-on-.au-policy-review.html
Are You A Domain Hoarder?
http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=827166&t=2
During my tenure as a domainer I have noticed a few interesting breeds. There are those who talk, flip, develop, collect and unfortunately hoard! Although this post is about the domain hoarder it is important to understand what the other classifications mean:
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Go Daddy Explains Whois Blocking
http://domainnamewire.com/2011/01/04/go-daddy-explains-whois-blocking/
Company explains access restrictions on third party sites.
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In 2010: China Shuts Down 60,000 Sites, 4,500 Criminal Investigations & Sends 1,332 To Jail
http://www.thedomains.com/2011/01/02/in-2010-china-shuts-down-60000-sites-4500-criminal-investigations-sends-58-to-jail/
In 2010 - China Shuts Down 60,000 Sites, 4,500 Criminal Investigations & Sends 1,332 To Jail
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How To: Use Fiverr to make money with domain names and selling websites
http://fusible.com/2011/01/how-to-use-fiverr-to-make-money-with-domain-names/
Fiverr.com, the website where people share things they’re willing to do for $5, attracted a lot of news coverage in 2010. The service which launched in February 2010, saw its traffic spike to over 400,000 unique visitors by March after a number of news sites and technology blogs like TechCrunch reported news of the start-up.
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