GoDaddy has a one week deal for a co domain at a price of just $9.49 until 7 PM Central time on June 6th. You can get as many as you like. That is 68% off the regular $30 price.
Visit godaddy here and use the .co domain coupon code: dotco949 for $9.49 .co domains.
The last .co coupon was available for a month and was for $10.49, this is obviously a better coupon but only available for a week.
Coupon Swapper is a new site that we have in beta for offering online discounts and coupons. These are the top brands and online sites providing discounts for current and new customers.
User Profiles
You can join as a user and create your profile. Here is an example of a profile, it is my profile here. As a member you can share coupons you have found, vote on current coupons and comment on them. By providing your own feed back you can assist others with information on the shared coupons. Others do the same and the community effect helps everyone. You provide feedback by simply voting the deals up or down and then commenting. Comments can provide more information on deals such as shipping, thresholds such as only receiving discounts when your order total exceeds a particular amount and anything else you noticed when taking advantage of a deal.
Specials
Some of the deals are ongoing and others last for a specific time period only. For example there are special coupons for particular deals on certain products as well as deals for Holidays. As an example here is a Tommy.com coupon for 25% off this Memorial Day only, and through 5/30. Other deals are for specific products as well. Create a profile, like our page on Facebook, add us on Twitter and follow for the most up to date deals from the stores you like. Additional features are on their way.
If you have ever wondered why advertisers ask that you do not bid on their brand name there are multiple reasons. If you bid using Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising on search engines you may have seen a message like this:
We have seen a lot of publishers bidding on our brand name. If you are bidding on our brand name or any variation of it please pause your campaign immediately! From now on we will strictly enforce our terms. To prevent any discomfort please make sure you are not violating our program terms.
There may be many reasons why they prefer you do not bid on their brand name and one is due to it being a Trademark. As an owner of a trademark you do not want others using that trademark. You need to control the usage of the mark and assure that no one is trying to profit from your good will and the value you have created around that mark. The owner of the mark prefers that they, and they alone, control the advertisements that appear when their mark is searched for. This allows them to control the advertisements and the pages that are shown after an advertisement is clicked. The owner of the mark does not want their mark to be diluted or seen in a negative light for any reason. Allowing many affiliates to bid on their name and present websites as if it is the owner of the marks site, takes away the control of the content from the mark owner.
I have received questions about the bidding of brand names and why advertisers care, hopefully this explains it.
If you feel like you go through printer ink faster now than ever try a 4inkjets coupon for a discount on ink. Order it online and have it show up at your door. They supply discount ink cartridges and toners. They have won multiple awards for their business and customer service. They provide refunds and exchanges if you are not happy with the purchase, always a good thing when ordering online.
Another interesting company to watch is LinkedIn that just went public this month. As of the writing of this post their valuation is over $9 Billion. You may read about many companies and their estimated valuation. This is not an estimated value but an actual value based on the number of shares and share price as LinkedIn is now public. LinkedIn is yet another company to review as it is a huge success story in terms of creating value in a short period of time. Here is more information on the company and the stock of LinkedIn Corp NYSE:LNKD.
As it is almost June, mid-year, I suggest you check with your domain registrar to assure you have not forgotten to renew any of your domains. This is actually a practice you should employ monthly. You do not want to forget to renew your domains. There are a couple options to relieve you of this monthly chore.
Renew for a Number of Years
First you can renew domains for more than 1 year. This would relieve you of having to renew yearly. Of course if you have many domains this could be very costly, here are two more options.
Auto Renew Feature
Here are step by step instructions to setup the auto-renew feature using GoDaddy. By using auto-renew you can set up an automatic payment so your domains will be renewed automatically. Most registrars have multiple payment options such as either credit card, paypal or others. You can use one of these godaddy coupons when renewing.
Consolidate Domains
Yet another option is to consolidate your domains. You can consolidate the month and day that each domain is to renew. By doing this you would only need to renew your domains all at one time each year. Here are instructions to consolidate your domains so they expire at the same time if you use Go Daddy.
Skype was founded in 2003, eBay bought it in 2005 for $2.6 billion. eBay later sells 70% of the company to investors in 2009. In 2011 Microsoft buys skype for $8.5 billion. In just 8 years the company went from inception to a sales price of $8.5 billion, that is nothing short of impressive. When looking to learn from a case study Skype is a great one.
Take a look at this time line of Skype from inception to the most recent acquisition. The image is incredible. See the image here.
Using the Comment Luv plugin helps increase comments on your site. When a comment is left a link is added along with the comment to the commentors last blog post. Therefore the commentor is encouraged to leave comments on others sites which use the Comment Luv plugin as they will receive a link to their site. This is a nice reward for their post and encourages comments on your site and additional web traffic. Of course you can still moderate the comment and if their comments are not relevant you do not have to accept them.
Here is an excellent video of the latest version 2.9 of the plugin.
Get the new plugin here : CommentLuv.com
Find the entire Comment Luv community here : ComLuv.com
Mobile Phone Usage
This is a video by google about smart phone usage. According to the description on youtube the data in this video resulted from a Google commissioned study conducted at the end of 2010 among 5,013 US adult smartphone Internet users. This is an excellent 2 minute and 30 second video that is very informative at a high level and a good primer. A perfect video to use in presentations within your own organization when introducing individuals to the wide spread and active cell phone usage.
You may agree or disagree with the title of this article but here are the facts. Many people do not realize these facts about The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Here they are and then we will discuss what is happening.
Those are the facts. It may be a surprise to you that the USPTO, a government agency, is actually profitable. This is something the government likes to keep quiet because they like to take the money from that agency and spend it elsewhere. Since that is done every year we are essentially taxing inventors as their patent fees are used in other areas of the government. As if you are not taxed enough, just know that as an inventor you are proportionally taxed more. I am not sure how that assists in innovation as it does not seem as though a tax on inventors would be an incentive. Good news is that inventors do not see it that way and consider it a cost of doing business.
Slowing Innovation
The real issue is that it currently takes about 3 years for your patent application to be decided on. There is an entire process for patent examination but I will not go into that now. The point is that if we want these patents to be examined faster do not take away the money of the agency. What is interesting is that in most cases when arguing for an agency to retain their current budget level or receive more funds you are typically asking for them to get more money and either the U.S. goes into deeper debt, another agency has to take a cut, or taxes go up. None of those is the case here. This agency generates revenue and is not allowed to retain the revenue it generates. Let them keep the money, examine patents faster, and therefore we speed our innovation to market, generate more jobs and increase the overall wealth of the country. If the U.S. really cares about innovation then get your hands out of the Patent Office’s pocket.