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Our special feature on forecasting sheds light on how to choose the right model, offers advice from Jack Stack and more.
Get startedAs time goes on, one of the more interesting trends that continues to happen with surprising regularity is how frequently new business models and ways of doing business are emerging through social media and online tools. In many cases, these trends are helping to reinvent how businesses sell and consumers buy all kinds of products. For that reason alone, new sites are worth paying attention to no matter what industry your business happens to be in. The benefit of that for your small business is that watching these new models may also spark a new idea or method of selling that you can consider for your own business:
I signed up for Groupon. It's fun to see the daily offer. Groupon provides a write-up of each business, so it's a good way to learn about local companies.
http://marketinginfowrangler.com/
I am a Woot and Hotwire member and utilize their website quite frequently
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Groupon ads seem to be all over - especially on twitter. I haven't dug into the site very deeply. I vote for Hotwire as having the best jingle of these websites though.
I am happy that we can actually benefit from these new business models. It seems that, as consumers, we have been pitted against each other to drive prices up for too long.
I think that Fiverr which was just launched a couple of weeks ago and is already gain notable traction brings a totally different business model that is worth noting, and is specially tuned the mass market. www.fiverr.com
I was surprised not to see affiliate/ppc/review/blog marketing as an innovative business model on this.
And I do think that Blippy offers a hitherto unprecedented level of complete transparency which is 1. Easily exploited by marketers and corporations, which must be the point, and 2. Appalling.
There were some good ideas in this article. I profited by reading it.
Online tuition especially
www.tutorvista.com
&
www.2tion.com
Although there were some hit and miss companies(blippy)in this article it defiantly brought light to the home business/network marketing industry. Very informative.
http://www.my-home-business-growth-marketing.com
To your success
Matt Brown
I can't believe Dubli made this list. The company has horrible reviews throughout the web and the business model seems shady to say the least. I would hope the people at openforum would do a simple google search for Dubli and scam and they will see a great deal of information regarding this company.
I have no biz interests in this company, but would like to hear what other people think.
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Puneet Thakkar 2 months ago
Nice collection on those sites, liked the simple and easy designs also like blippy.
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