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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel.