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Will Radiohead’s set-your-own-price scheme work?

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inrainbows.gifRock band Radiohead is changing the rules of the music industry by allowing their fans to set the price they want to pay for their new album In Rainbows.

You won’t find this new album in your favorite online and offline music stores. Instead, you can go directly to the In Rainbows official website to download this 10-song album.

This new scheme has resulted to mixed reactions from fans and business analysts. Even though it’s too early to predict the outcome of this move, several bands like Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Charlatans and Ash, and Jamiroquai are considering this option as well.

Originally posted on October 11, 2007 @ 1:05 pm

VUDU brings new movies directly to your living room

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vudu.jpg VUDU Inc., the company that brings to the living room instant access to thousands of hit movies, announced that its set top box is now available for purchase at the company’s online store for $399.

It fulfills the promise created by high-speed broadband Internet to deliver instant access to thousands of movie titles directly on consumers’ televisions. No planning needed, no computer required, no software downloads and no cable TV service or satellite subscription required.

After buying the set top box, consumers will just pay for each movie on an as-you- go basis. There are no subscription or activation fees. Prices for one-time rentals range from $0.99 – $3.99, and prices for purchased movies range from $4.99 – $19.99, depending on the age of the movie.

“VUDU will revolutionize the home movie experience. With top-of-the-line content available at the press of a button, you can now
watch what you want, when you want!” said Tony S. Miranz, Co-founder of VUDU.

With violence and price of gasoline consistently increasing combined with our busy and stressful schedules, VUDU is a cost-effective alternative for many of us. Still, there is no substitute for going out with family and friends to watch movies in the nearby theater.

Originally posted on September 7, 2007 @ 5:36 am

Smilebox makes multimedia sharing easy

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smilebox.jpgSmilebox, a new service dedicated to help people keep in touch with family and friends through sharing multimedia expressions, gives users the power to create and share a photo ecard, digital scrapbook, slide show, photobook, and postcard for free in under 5 minutes.

Users can simply drag and drop their summer digital photos and videos into creative, professionally designed scrapbooks and photobooks with personalized music & text and easily email them to friends and family, post to a Web site or print keepsakes.

Additionally, it offers more than 400 professionally designed slideshows, scrapbooks, greetings, postcards and photobooks and is adding many unique summer, travel and other designs each week. This service is such a great relief for many avid travelers like me who lack the patience and creativity to compile those priceless memories captured in photos and videos.

Originally posted on August 23, 2007 @ 7:25 am

A Few Things To Interest Your Followers

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Whether they are customers on your website, social media followers, or people following your blog, you want to keep the readers of what your write and post interested, and in order to do that you need to keep coming up with new things that make them want to come back for me. Here are a few things that you can share in blog posts, link to your website, or plaster all over social media that will peek your customers interest, and probably even attract new ones. [Read more…]

Originally posted on May 10, 2016 @ 5:33 am

Three Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Online Marketing

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Whether you just started a new business or you have one that’s been around for a while, you should be working on getting everything out of your online marketing tactics as you possibly can. That means using things like social media marketing and even making sure that you have a blog that is regularly updated.

If you expect your business to thrive online, you need to make sure that you are doing the right things to market your business. That means you want to make sure people know you exist, what your business does, and you want to make sure that there are things that can be found in less normal ways, which will make your business easier to find and search engines. [Read more…]

Originally posted on April 7, 2016 @ 10:18 am